Power and Privilege: Interrogating the roots of the health crisis in Gaza, occupied Palestine
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT
Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA. Harvard ID required.
Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Hanan Abukmail that traces how extreme power has led to a dire public health situation for over two million people living in Gaza. Dr. Abukmail will discuss bodily harm, emotional trauma, and the systematic destruction of the health system over the last 17 months.
Moderator:
2025 Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights Fellow
Rania Muhareb, PhD, LLM
Dr. Muhareb’s research focuses on the right to health in Palestine, drawing on the UN Apartheid Convention and Genocide Convention and the settler colonialism framework. She recently completed her PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at the University of Galway (2020-2024), funded by the Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD scholarship, examining the mobilisation of the apartheid framework by grassroots organisers and human rights organisations in the pursuit of international justice and accountability in Palestine.
Speaker:
Dr. Hanan Abukmail, MD, MPhil
Dr. Abukmail is a medical doctor who studied and practiced medicine in Gaza City, occupied Palestine. She worked with different health organizations in Gaza before she held her postgraduate degree from Cambridge University. She is a published researcher. Dr. Abukmail is currently a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and affiliated with the International Health System Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Her research interest focuses on the health system, maternal healthcare, and non-communicable diseases including cancer.
Speaker remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.