Who we are
We are a member-based collaborative platform, and encourage engagement from both individuals and institutions who work towards and share our vision for a world without war, where health is protected, justice upheld, and peace promoted.
Chairs
Samer Jabbour
Professor of Public Health Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut. Lebanon/Syria
Amy Hagopian
Director, Community Oriented Public Health Practice, The University of Washington USA
James Batchelor
CIRU Director & Associate Dean International Research & Enterprise, Faculty of Medicine
Interim Executive Board
Marian Abuzeid
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University. Australia
James Batchelor
CIRU Director & Associate Dean International Research & Enterprise, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton University. UK
Karl Blanchet
Director of Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, University of Geneva and IHEID. Switzerland
Amy Hagopian
Director, Community Oriented Public Health Practice, The University of Washington USA
Samer Jabbour
Professor of Public Health Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut. Lebanon/Syria
David McCoy
Director of the Centre for Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London. UK
Marion Birch
Ex-Officio Member
Co-Editor, Medicine, Conflict and Survival. UK
Advisory Group
Our Advisory Group includes representatives from both academic and humanitarian operational organisations, as well as major journals. It has strong Global South representation from all geographic regions, including women from and based in the South, and includes experts from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds.
Mihir Bhatt
Director of All India Disaster Mitigation Institute. India
Camila Braga
Researcher, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of São Paulo. Brazil
Rita Giacaman
Director of the Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University. Palestine
Natasha Howard
Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Singapore/UK
Rabie Nasser
Syrian Centre for Policy Research. Syria/Lebanon
Chirs Orach
Makerere University School of Public Health. Uganda
Pierre Perrin
Independent, formerly Chief Medical Officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). France
Leonard Rubenstein
Chair, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition; Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. USA
Richard Sullivan
Director, Conflict & Health Research Group, King’s College London. UK
Sameen Siddiqi
Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi. Pakistan
Steering Group 2019 - 2021
Mihir Bhatt
Director of All India Disaster Mitigation Institute. India
Karl Blanchet
Director of Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, University of Geneva and IHEID. Switzerland
Camila Braga
Researcher, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of São Paulo. Brazil
Rita Giacaman
Director of the Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University. Palestine
Amy Hagopian
Director, Community Oriented Public Health Practice, The University of Washington USA
Natasha Howard
Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Singapore/UK
Samer Jabbour
Professor of Public Health Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut. Lebanon/Syria
David McCoy
Director of the Centre for Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London. UK
Rabie Nasser
Syrian Centre for Policy Research Syria/Lebanon
Chirs Orach
Makerere University School of Public Health. Uganda
Pierre Perrin
Independent, formerly Chief Medical Officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). France
Leonard Rubenstein
Chair, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition; Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health USA
Sameen Siddiqi
Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi. Pakistan
Paul Spiegel
Director, Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University. Canada/USA
Richard Sullivan
Director, Conflict & Health Research Group, King’s College London. UK
Marian Abuzeid
Alliance Executive Director (2019-2021)
Alfred Deakin Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Secretariat
In addition to the contributions of our core team, our multi-institutional Secretariat has received generous in-kind support from several of our collaborating institutions, including the American University of Beirut, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, and the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies.
Dr Rebecca Brown Executive Director
Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Elsara Badri
Executive Director
Previously Executive Director, Strategic Initiative For women in the Horn of Africa, Sudan; Lecturer of Development Studies, Ahfad University. Sudan.