Corrie Hannah

Corrie Hannah, PhD, is the Principal Investigator for the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance-funded Climate Adaptation Research Program (CARP, 2023-2028). The CARP aims to improves disaster preparedness and planning by supporting early career scholars in the Global South with research funding and complementary learning and networking opportunities to conduct disaster risk science research that has direct implications for disaster risk reduction policies and strategies. 

Dr. Hannah has several years of experience working in international contexts on efforts that seek to enact positive change for local communities. She is committed to a research agenda that promotes local scientists and decision-makers to devise context-specific solutions to local social and environmental challenges. With this goal to bridge science with society, she works with a strong multi-institutional and international team to support and promote CARP scholars in the Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Pacific Islands regions to mitigate risks to localized climate-induced disasters with support from the various CARP research activities. 

Dr. Hannah also leads the Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support (HATS) project within the Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology in the School of Anthropology. In this role, she collaborates with graduate and undergraduate students and HATS faculty on research concerning humanitarian assistance and disaster risk governance. Her broader research portfolio incorporates quantitative and qualitative approaches to study a variety of topics related to community-based environmental governance, water resource management, water security, food security, food systems, and global environmental change impacts on urban and rural communities.