Osama Tanous, MD, MPH

Dr. Osama Tanous is a pediatrician and public health scholar based in Haifa. Osama is a co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights and a commissioner in the O’Neill Lancet commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. He was a 2020-2021 Hubert H. Humphrey fellow of public health and health policy at the Rollin School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and B’tselem, The Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories. Osama’s writings and work focus on the intersection of settler colonialism, state structural violence, and health. He is examining how these factors shape the living conditions, behaviors, and thus the health of Palestinians. His work has been published in a variety of academic and non-academic journals.