About American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut (AUB) runs the Faculty of Health Sciences that hosts Knowledge to Policy Centre (K2P), a WHO collaborating centre for evidence-informed policy and practice (EPPI-Centre) which shapes public health and social policies in Lebanon and the region. AUB is also a member of the UNHCR Health Working Group, which works to link and inform actors in Lebanon’s complex, parallel and fragmented health systems.
The team also hosts the multidisciplinary Refugee Health Program. This aims to combine academic and practical expertise on global health, refugee and community health, and medicine to generate contextualised knowledge, outreach and capacity building for targeted populations.
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ReBUILD for Resilience projects
For project details and outputs follow the links:
- The role of the diaspora in supporting health system resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings
- Embedding Social Network Analysis in Health Systems Resilience Research
- The gendered experience of close-to-community providers in fragile and shock-prone (FASP) settings: implications for policy and practice during and post COVID-19
- Close-to-community providers addressing gender norms and power dynamics: participatory action research in fragile and shock-prone settings
- Understanding and developing a resilient health system in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon: a learning site project
- Podcast: Gender, health systems resilience and equity
- Podcast: Migration, displacement and health systems
- Case study: Linking local knowledge to global discourse: Work on migration and health
Fouad M Fouad MD
Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health
Fouad’s current research interests focus on the health of forced displaced populations and refugees, as well as the impact of this crisis on their health and well-being. Fouad is Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on several projects on health in protracted and armed conflicts. He served as a commissioner in two Lancet Commissions – the AUB-Lancet Commission on Syria and the crises in global governance, health and aid and the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health.
Rouham Yamout
Project coordinator
Rouham was a medical doctor for 20 years before moving into public health where she now focuses on health system research and strengthening and determinants of access to quality healthcare. She has extensive research experience with projects including internally displaced people’s mental health, the ethics of research in war time and waterpipe smoking among adolescents. As well as AUB, Rouham has worked for International Red Cross where she was a trainer in the clinical management of rape and sexual assault, Lebanese University as an instructor in research design for nursing students and in UN organisations looking at immunisation, nutrition and refugees’ health.
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Joanna Khalil
Research fellow
Joanna is a dietitian and a public health practitioner working with various communities around Lebanon, including refugees, in formal and informal settlements. Her key strength is qualitative research methodology: from managing the field work, leading the recruitment of participants, conducting focus group discussions and key informant interviews, to analysis of the transcripts and report writing.
She has been involved in a multinational research study, exploring tobacco and waterpipe smoking, as well as health warnings. She carried out baseline assessments and evaluations of health and social centres in underprivileged areas and refugee camps, tackling reproductive health, mental health, education, WASH, cash assistance, emergency relief, resilience and child labour.
Samira Abdallah
Research assistant
Samira assists the research team in grant administrative tasks, budgeting, research activities, knowledge production, report writing and design work.
Samira is a human morphology graduate and a public health activist. During her studies she participated in several national and international conferences and contributed to several peer-reviewed publications related to cancer diagnosis and treatment, mental health, and cognition.
Samira is a volunteer in the Lebanese Civil Defence where proper public health provision is ensured using emergency operations principles. She’s also a volunteer at AMALOUNA, an NGO raising awareness of cancer in the community through education, research and prevention.
The ReBUILD for Resilience partners are:
The team is supported by research associates
