Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health, where she teaches in the MPH program and serves as coordinator for the mental health unit. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Sociology from Brown University and an MPH in Community and Public Health from Birzeit University. Her academic focus is on understanding how political and social transformations impact health, psychosocial wellbeing, health and social systems, and population processes, particularly in Palestine. She is a member of various research and advocacy networks, including the Palestine-Global Mental Health network, the Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance, Reproductive Health Working Group (RHWG), the Palestinian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC), and a policy member at Al-Shabaka.