Weeam Hammoudeh is an associate professor in the Sociology department and the Human Biology program at Hunter College-City University of New York and a faculty affiliate at the Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University. She is a visiting scientist at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, where she serves as co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, and as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Child Health and Racism. Her research focuses on the health impacts of structural and political forces in contexts of occupation, settler-colonization, and displacement, especially in Palestine, as well as the evolution of health systems and community health movements/mobilizations within these contexts. She has published extensively in academic and non-academic outlets and is also a member of various Palestinian, regional, and international professional associations and research networks.
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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.
