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Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Vaccine in MENA: Questions of P...

The New Arab
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Listen to the recorded live discussion on issues surrounding equal and transparent vaccine roll-out in the context of conflict, refugee crises and occupation. Speakers discussed the politics of vaccines and policy considerations for vaccine roll-out in MENA, prospects for conflict and emergency affected populations, and Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians living under its occupation.

Speakers:
Professor Fadi El-Jardali (PhD, MPH) is a recognized senior expert with extensive international and regional experience and multidisciplinary background in health policy, systems and management. He is a Professor of Health Systems and Policy, Founder & Director of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center; Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice; Co-Director of the Center for Systematic Reviews in Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK); and co-lead for the Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative (GESI) Secretariat at the American University of Beirut. 

Tammam Aloudat is a medical doctor and a public health practitioner from Syria. He has worked in medical humanitarian action for the past twenty years for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Doctors Without Borders (MSF). He worked on the ground in conflicts such as Syria, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Iraq. His current focus now in his work for MSF Access Campaign is making life-saving medicines and vaccines available and affordable for people in low-resource and crisis situations.

Yara M. Asi, PhD, is a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of Central Florida and a 2021-2023 US Fulbright Scholar to the West Bank. Her research agenda focuses on global health and development in fragile and conflict-affected populations and she has presented at multiple national and international conferences on topics related to global health, food security, health informatics, and women in healthcare.

Moderator:

Narjas Zatat is a journalist who has worked on several national publications including The Independent and Metro Online. She has written about US and British politics and covered refugee crises in Europe, as well as social affairs, including the impact of discrimination on minority communities in the UK. Currently she is a reporter for The New Arab and her areas of interest include women’s rights in the MENA, cyber warfare, diaspora culture and the environment.

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