One year later: assessing the scale of mortality in Gaza

Date and Time

October 23, 2024

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Zoom – Registration Required

Webinar Recording

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT | 7:00pm – 8:30pm EEST

Location: Zoom – Registration required

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a discussion about the scale of mortality in Gaza over the past year through direct and indirect deaths with Les Roberts, an expert in field measurement of mortality in crises, and Zeina Jamaluddine, a nutritionist and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focusing on health improvement of women and children especially those affected by conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Moderator:

Yara M. Asi, PhD

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, a 2023-2024 Non-Resident Palestinian Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the co-chair of the Palestine Health Justice Working Group in the American Public Health Association.

Speakers:

Zeina Jamaluddine, MS

Zeina Jamaluddine is a nutritionist and epidemiologist, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research is dedicated to improving the health of women and children, with a particular focus on those affected by conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region. She is interested in validating tools that reflect insecurities, quantifying health and nutrition inequalities, and evaluating the impact of various assistance interventions.

Les Roberts, PhD

Les Roberts is a Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University and has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including: Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Republic 2009, 2018, and 2022, and Sierra Leone 2000 and 2014.

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.