Bram Wispelwey is a co-founder of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment. He is co-director of the Palestinian Program for Health and Human Rights, a physician based in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity. Driven by his experiences as a physician-activist, his research, education, and implementation efforts focus on the settler colonial determinants of health, reparative strategies to address health inequities, and the impact of community health on workers in Palestinian refugee camps.
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This policy brief argues that the health sciences—from public health to epidemiology, nursing, medicine, pharmacology, and nutrition, among others—have a distinct role to play in preventing and documenting the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and other settings, as well as in generating evidence to inform accountability processes.
