Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Fouad, Fouad M.; Sparrow, Annie; Tarakji, A.; Alameddine, Mohamad; El‐Jardali, Fadi; Coutts, Adam; Arnaout, Nour El; Karroum, Lama Bou; Jawad, Mohammed; Roborgh, Sophie; Abbara, Aula; Alhalabi, Fadi; AlMasri, Ibrahim; Jabbour, Samer

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30741-9

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“…Indeed, some Syrians and Iraqis who left their countries in recent years were seeking medical treatment they could no longer obtain in their homeland . It is estimated that more than 2000 children in the Middle East will be affected by cancer in countries where previously adequate health care systems have collapsed . Our report demonstrates that providing care for this population is feasible through partnerships with committed centers and advocates.…”

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Displaced children with cancer in Lebanon: A sustained response to an unprecedented crisis

Saab

Jeha

Khalifeh

et al. 2018

Cancer

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In addition to providing lifesaving humanitarian support, the coordination of care delivery, including the establishment of guidelines for prioritization, can help direct future efforts. Many patients continue to be in dire need of support, and this should be addressed via collaboration among governmental, nongovernmental, and health care organizations. Cancer 2018;124:1464-72. © 2018 American Cancer Society.

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Displaced children with cancer in Lebanon: A sustained response to an unprecedented crisis

Saab

Jeha

Khalifeh

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Cancer

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“…Against this background [48,49], RCB in RESCAP-MED became necessarily a constant adaptation to new and developing crises. The key 'capacity' required of the network as a whole was adaptability, for planned activities had constantly to be rethought in the light of new circumstances.…”

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Context-led capacity building in time of crisis: fostering non-communicable diseases (NCD) research skills in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa

Phillimore

Sibai

Rizk

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Global Health Action

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Background: This paper examines one EC-funded multinational project (RESCAP-MED), with a focus on research capacity building (RCB) concerning non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa. By the project’s end (2015), the entire region was engulfed in crisis.Objective: Designed before this crisis developed in 2011, the primary purpose of RESCAP-MED was to foster methodological skills needed to conduct multi-disciplinary research on NCDs and their social determinants. RESCAP-MED also sought to consolidate regional networks for future collaboration, and to boost existing regional policy engagement in the region on the NCD challenge. This analysis examines the scope and sustainability of RCB conducted in a context of intensifying political turmoil.Methods: RESCAP-MED linked two sets of activities. The first was a framework for training early- and mid-career researchers through discipline-based and writing workshops, plus short fellowships for sustained mentoring. The second integrated public-facing activities designed to raise the profile of the NCD burden in the region, and its implications for policymakers at national level. Key to this were two conferences to showcase regional research on NCDs, and the development of an e-learning resource (NETPH).Results: Seven discipline-based workshops (with 113 participants) and 6 workshops to develop writing skills (84 participants) were held, with 18 fellowship visits. The 2 symposia in Istanbul and Beirut attracted 280 participants. Yet the developing political crisis tagged each activity with a series of logistical challenges, none of which was initially envisaged. The immediacy of the crisis inevitably deflected from policy attention to the challenges of NCDs.Conclusions: This programme to strengthen research capacity for one priority area of global public health took place as a narrow window of political opportunity was closing. The key lessons concern issues of sustainability and the paramount importance of responsively shaping a context-driven RCB.

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“…7 Indeed, medicine has essentially been weaponized by the Syrian regime and Russian forces in the Syrian Civil War: hospitals and healthcare professionals are targeted for attacks precisely because of their life-saving efforts and the care they administer to people in need. 8 Unlike MSF, which provides temporary solutions via new humanitarianism, the White Helmets may be practicing Dubal's radical political medicine.…”

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Doctors with borders: The White Helmets and radical political medicine

Asif

2019

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Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Cited by 218 publications

References 30 publications

Displaced children with cancer in Lebanon: A sustained response to an unprecedented crisis

Displaced children with cancer in Lebanon: A sustained response to an unprecedented crisis

Context-led capacity building in time of crisis: fostering non-communicable diseases (NCD) research skills in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa

Doctors with borders: The White Helmets and radical political medicine

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