Bram Wispelwey
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 […]
David Mills
David Mills is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and public health practitioner. He is co-director of the Palestine Program for Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and an Assistant in Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research, educational, and academic interests […]
Ayman Qwaider
Ayman Qwaider is an international education consultant with extensive experience across the MENA region, and a particular focus on Palestine. He holds an MA in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies and has worked extensively in community-based education in post-conflict and protracted crisis contexts. Ayman has collaborated closely with Palestinian learners, teachers, and communities across Gaza and refugee settings, […]
Layth Malhis
Layth Malhis is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, where his work focuses on settler colonialism and Palestinian health. His research advances the concept of “de-healthification” as an analytical framework for understanding the systematic dismantling and weaponization of healthcare in Palestine under successive regimes of colonial control. He is also […]
Karim Mattar
Karim Mattar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A descendant of survivors of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, he works at the intersection of Palestine studies, the humanities, and higher education. He is currently writing two books: “The Ethics of Affiliation: Palestine and the Future of Humanism” and “Reflections […]
Weeam Hammoudeh
Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh is Assistant Professor at Birzeit University’s Institute of Community and Public Health. She holds a PhD and MA in Sociology from Brown University, and an MPH in Community and Public Health from Birzeit University. Her work focuses on understanding how political and social transformations impact health, psychosocial wellbeing, health and social systems, and population processes, particularly in Palestine. She has been involved in research projects on different topics, including youth mental health and wellbeing, adolescent refugee girls’ health, deprivation, and mental health, and health system preparedness in the COVID-19 response.
Yara Asi
Dr. Yara M. Asi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics. Her research agenda focuses on global health, human rights, and development in fragile populations. She is a Non-resident Fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, a 2020-2021 Fulbright US Scholar to the West Bank, the Fall 2021 US Fellow at Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network, and the co-chair of the Palestine Health Justice Working Group in the American Public Health Association. Along with working at one of the first accountable care organizations in the United States, she has also worked with Amnesty International USA and the Palestinian American Research Center on policy and outreach issues. She has presented at multiple national and international conferences on topics related to global health, food security, health informatics, and women in healthcare, and has published extensively on health and well-being in fragile and conflict-affected populations in journal articles and book chapters. Her work has also been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, +972 Magazine, The Conversation, Al Jazeera, The World, and other outlets. Her forthcoming book with Johns Hopkins University Press will examine war as a public health crisis.
Raed Eshnaiwer
Al-Shabaka Policy Member Raed Eshnaiwer is a PhD candidate at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in Political Science, European Studies and Area Studies. Raed’s research focuses on the impact of forced migration on the identity of the state: Syrian refugees in Jordan as a case study.
Osama Tanous
Al-Shabaka Member Osama Tanous is a specialized pediatrician based in Haifa. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Health and is a researcher for the Galilee Society: The Arab National Society for Health, Research and Services. Osama is a 2020 candidate for the Fulbright Hubert Humphrey fellowship in public health and health policies. His research interests include structural violence and health disparities.
