Pamela DeLargy

Pam DeLargy is a public health and population specialist who is rejoining academia after a twenty year career in international development and humanitarian response where she worked in the areas of population and development, migration, gender and development (including reproductive health).

As the head of UNFPA's humanitarian programs,she worked to bring attention to the needs of women and adolescents in emergency situations by leading a number of United Nations efforts to expand and improve basic standards for humanitarian programming and she was among the first within the international humanitarian community to work toward understanding and responding to HIV and conflict and sexual violence in conflicts. She also served for a number of years in Eritrea, Sudan, and Ethiopia and is a specialist on the Horn of Africa, where she also did her earlier dissertation research on forced migration and development. She has also written on population and environment in Africa.

Prior to joining ASU,  she was Senior Advisor to the U.N. Special Representative for Migration (London) and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs of the London School of Economics. Her recent research and writing is on the cross- Mediterranean migration crisis and on the affect of armed conflict on community health in Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Middle East. 

Ms. DeLargy is a Senior Advisor to President Crow and Executive Director of ASU's Education for Humanity initiative, which seeks to bring access to higher education to camp-based and urban refugees throughout the world. She has also been instrumental in helping ASU become a "refugee-friendly" campus.