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Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership program between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, in conversation with
Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sUmtauwZQo-kdpdPJ3RnwQ#/registration
Dr. Abu-Sittah is British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has spent the past several weeks working in hospitals in northern Gaza. He will share a first-hand account of his experience caring for patients during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a multi-award-winning Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, with a worldwide reputation as one of the world’s leading specialists in craniofacial surgery (facial deformities), aesthetic surgery, cleft lip and palate surgery and trauma related injuries.
Abu-Sittah is a passionate and active humanitarian. A British Palestinian, he has worked as a war surgeon in numerous conflict zones including Syria, Yemen, Iraq, South Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He is Clinical Lead for the Operational Trauma Initiative at the World Health Organization’s EMRO Office and serves on the board of directors of INARA, a charity dedicated to providing reconstructive surgery to war injured children in the Middle East, and Board of Trustees of the UK based Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Co-sponsors: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, Birzeit University
Contact: danaiprado@hsph.harvard.edu