Yara Asi

Al-Shabaka Policy Member Yara Asi received her PhD in Public Affairs from the University of Central Florida, with a concentration in Health Services Management and Research. Her doctoral research assessed quality of life measures in the West Bank and Jordan. Yara’s work looks primarily at health, education, and development in war-affected populations, although she has presented and published on other topics such as food security and food sovereignty in the Palestinian territories, the role of women in humanitarian crises, and foreign aid policy in fragile states. She has also worked with Amnesty International USA and the Palestinian American Research Center on research and outreach.