DrNazanin Zadeh-Cummings

Selected media appearances

Humanitarian studies programmes in short supply in Africa by Wagdy Sawahel, 17 March 2022, University World News: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220308103932835

'In the first few years of life, 1 in 5 North Korean kids suffer stunted growth' by Won-Gi Jung, 5 May 2021, NK News: https://www.nknews.org/2021/05/one-in-5-north-korean-kids-suffer-from-stunted-growth/

'North Korea says its gravely concerned about Australian human rights abuses' by Chad O'Carroll, 22 January 2021, NK News: https://www.nknews.org/2021/01/north-korea-says-its-gravely-concerned-about-australian-human-rights-abuses/

'Typhoon Bavi strikes North Korea amid pandemic lockdown' by Jason Strother, 27 August 2020, The World: https://theworld.org/stories/2020-08-27/typhoon-bavi-strikes-north-korea-amid-pandemic-lockdown

'Coronavirus fears in North Korea as closed China border deals blow to economy' by John Power, 13 February 2020: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3050251/coronavirus-fears-north-korea-closed-china-border

Selected commentary

'Need, Aid, and Root Causes: The Appropriateness of Humanitarian Response in the DPRK' by Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, 8 April 2021, Global North Korea: https://globalnk.org/commentary/view?cd=COM000048#_ftn16

'Why diversity matters for humanitarian negotiation' by Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, 24 August 2021, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership: https://www.centreforhumanitarianleadership.org/the-centre/news/diversity-and-humanitarian-negotiation/

'North Koreas silent health crisis' by Gianlucca Spezza and Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, 25 February 2019, The New Humanitarian: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2019/02/25/north-korea-s-silent-health-crisis

'The Hanoi US-North Korea Summit: Why Pyongyangs Crippled Economy Is Central' by Gianluca Spezza and Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, 25 February 2019, The Diplomat, https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-hanoi-us-north-korea-summit-why-pyongyangs-crippled-economy-is-central/

Selected conferences

2021 Conference on Humanitarian Studies - New Realities of Politics and Humanitarianism: Between Solidarity and Abandonment (3-5 November 2021, Sciences Po, Paris/virtual)

2021 Humanitarian Leadership Conference (28-29 April 2021, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University, virtual)

North Korea International: (Re)Evaluating, (Re)Viewing, and (Re)Connecting in a COVID World (6 October 2020, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University, Seoul/virtual)

Second Biennial Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies Meeting (17 July 2020, Monash University, virtual)

2019 Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference (22-24 May 2019, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University, virtual)

World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2019 (24-26 June 2019, Konkuk University, Seoul)

Board member, International Humanitarian Studies Association (2022 - present)

Steering committee member, HPass (2022 - present)