Sawsan Abdulrahim
Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut
Sawsan Abdulrahim (PhD, MPH) is Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). Since joining AUB in 2005, Abdulrahim has engaged in research and practice situated at the intersection of displacement, human rights, and health, with a focus on forced and labor migrant women in the region. A strong believer in the potential of community-engaged research as a tool to produce relevant local knowledge and mitigate structural inequities, she led two community-engaged studies on the wellbeing of Syrian refugee adolescent girls and migrant women care workers in Lebanon. She developed and has taught since 2016 a graduate course on forced migration. Abdulrahim spent AY 2023-2024 as a visiting fellow in the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a joint program between the FXB Center and Bir Zeit University Institute of Community and Public Health. She is invested in building on the emerging field critical refugee studies through centering the experiences of refugees and highlighting how historical and contemporary colonialisms, structural racism, and other forms of violence shape forced displacement.