| Bio |
Rita Giacaman: professor of public health, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, occupied Palestinian territory and founder of the Institute in 1978. Her research focuses on the impact of chronic war-like, colonial and apartheid conditions and exposure to political violence on the health and well-being of Palestinians. Rita has published extensively on women's health and mental health in wars and conflicts from a multidisciplinary public health perspective. She was awarded an honorary PhD from the LSE in 2011 for having made an "outstanding contribution to the increased understanding or appreciation of ' the causes of things.. '" She was also awarded the title of International Fellow of the Society for Research on Adolescence in 2018 for her ‘internationally and culturally sensitive approach to the understanding of adolescence worldwide’; and awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree (honoris causa) from King’s College London, for her work which ‘has set a standard for the provision of health care in war and post-war contexts in the Middle East and globally,’ in 2019. |
