Sawsan Abdulrahim (PhD, MPH) is Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences and IDRC Research Chair in Forced Displacement at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Her research examines social inequities in health across the life course, with a focus on the wellbeing of refugees and labor migrants in the Arab region. Most recently, she served as PI of community-engaged studies on the wellbeing of Syrian refugee adolescent girls and migrant women care workers in Lebanon. Her research interests include forced migration and health; aging and the global economy of care; and the impact of structural violence on the health of refugees. She teaches courses on research methods, health promotion theory, social epidemiology, and forced migration.
