Universitá degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale (UNIUPO)

CRIMEDIM is a university-wide academic center that conducts research, education, and training in the field of
disaster medicine and humanitarian health. The center is committed to promote innovative research projects and
to foster learning and training programs using state of the art technologies to enhance the resilience of health
systems in emergency, disaster and humanitarian crisis.
OUR VISION:
Make health systems able to effectively protect people’s health from disasters and humanitarian crises, saving lives,
minimizing deaths, injuries, disabilities and human suffering with a competent and professional workforce.
OUR MISSION:
CRIMEDIM works to enhance the resilience of health systems in emergencies, disasters and humanitarian crises
through increasing knowledge, skills and attitudes of health workers based on scientific evidence and field
experience at local, national and international level.
OUR OBJECTIVES:
Cooperate with different institutions, universities, public and private agencies, governmental and non-governmental
organizations to enhance the resilience of health systems. Promote and coordinate research projects in disaster
education, disaster medicine, and humanitarian health.