Delivering Health in a Region on the Move
Published: 9 June 2025
Our roundtable event, 'Delivering Health in a Region on the Move: Health Systems and Forced Migration in the Middle East', will exploring the complex intersections of fragile health systems and forced displacement in the Middle East. This session will feature presentations by Dr Ibrahim Bou Orm and Professor Fouad Fouad (Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health) from the Department of International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Date: Tuesday 24 June
Time: 15.30-17.00PM
Location: Room 207, 10 The Square, University of Glasgow
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On 24 June, our interdisciplinary theme will host a roundtable event, 'Delivering Health in a Region on the Move: Health Systems and Forced Migration in the Middle East', exploring the complex intersections of fragile health systems and forced displacement in the Middle East.
This session will feature presentations by Dr Ibrahim Bou Orm (Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social Sciences) and Professor Fouad Fouad (Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health) from the Department of International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. This opening presentation will be followed by responses from practitioners working in the field and an open discussion with participants. Together, we will examine the challenges and strategies of delivering healthcare in fragile contexts of forced migration. This in-person event offers an opportunity for engaged dialogue and interdisciplinary exchange around the evolving challenges of health and forced migration in the region.
Speaker Biographies:
Ibrahim R. Bou-Orm is Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social Sciences at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is a medical doctor with extensive experience in global public health research and practice, including designing and implementing complex health systems and policy studies in fragile and conflict-affected settings. His work includes the use of tools like applied political economy analysis, systems dynamics methods, surveys, and mixed methods to analyse health systems delivering care for vulnerable and displaced populations in crises and emergencies. He has actively contributed to international conferences and participated in key expert consultation meetings, such the WHO EMRO consultation meetings on health systems recovery from emergencies (in 2023 and 2025). He also supported WHO EMRO in developing the principles and priorities for health system recovery in the occupied Palestinian territory (2024). Dr Bou-Orm holds a medical degree (MD) from St. Joseph University of Beirut, an MPH from the American University of Beirut, and a PhD from Queen Margaret University – Edinburgh.
Fouad M. Fouad, M.D. is a Professor of Social Sciences and Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. His research focuses on migration and health, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to forced displacement, health systems in humanitarian settings, and the political economy of health in protracted crises. Fouad is a member of several global technical working groups, including the WHO Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants and Refugees and the Global Research Agenda on Health and Migration, reflecting his leadership and influence in the field. Fouad was a commissioner with the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health (2018) and currently serves on the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Migration. His contributions to the field were recognized in The Lancet, which featured a profile on his work on forced displacement: Fouad M Fouad: enriching the dialogue on displacement and health - The Lancet
First published: 9 June 2025
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