Birth: 1/1/1954 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nablus in 1954; was raised and educated in Jerusalem; studied Medicine in the USSR and France; went to the US to receive post-graduate training in Epidemiology and International Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; returned to Palestine and became co-founder of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) in the early 1980s; served as UPMRC Vice-Pres. for 10 years, then as its Dir.-Gen.; was a founding member of several health organizations and projects both nationally and internationally, incl. the Juzoor Foundation for Health and Social Development in East Jerusalem, the Center for Primary Health Care (with Al-Quds University), and the International People’s Health Council in Nicaragua in the late 1980s; represented Palestinian NGOs in the International Coordinating Committee on the Question of Palestine from 1989-94; became chief regional technical advisor and representative of UNFPA in Central Asia in 1995; was appointed Director of UNRWA Health Dept. in 1998 (until 2001); served as leader of the ‘Maram’ reproductive health project from 2001-May 2005; works as population and health advisor to the PA Minister of Planning; also serves as Director of Public Health at Juzoor Foundation and is member of the Palestinian Health Policy Forum; serves as Board of Trustees member of several local organizations, incl. the Women Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC), the Palestinian Counseling Center (PCC), Muwatin and the Tamer Institute for Community Education; also is an International Board member of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; among his publications are Sexual Health for Children and Adolescents (1982) and Health and Globalization (2000).
