Eyewitness to Israel’s Intentionally Created Health Apocalypse in Gaza

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In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Dr. Tammy Abughnaim, an American physician who has been to Gaza twice since 10/7/23, serving as a humanitarian physician and has worked at Al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex; and Dr. Yara Asi, assistant professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, and visiting scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, where she is co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Asi is also a non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. scholar to the West Bank, and a 2023 Palestine fellow for the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Occupied Thoughts by FMEP · Eyewitness to Israel’s Intentionally Created Health Apocalypse in Gaza

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Recorded on December 17, 2024

 

 

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Dr. Tammy Abughnaim is an American board certified emergency physician based in Chicago. She completed emergency medicine residency at Advocate Christ and now works at several community sites. She has been to Gaza twice during the crisis serving as a humanitarian physician and has worked at Al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex. Dr.Abughnaim’s work focuses on healthcare delivery in low resource settings, point of care ultrasound, and social justice. She is a member of Healthcare Workers for Palestine.

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Dr. Yara Asi is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, and a visiting scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, where she is co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. scholar to the West Bank, and a 2023 Palestine fellow for the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She previously served as the U.S. fellow at Al Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. Her research focuses on global health, human rights, and development in fragile populations. Asi has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications, and has been featured on Al Jazeera, The World, and other outlets. Her new book with Johns Hopkins University Press, How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health, examines war as a public health crisis.

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Previous Yara Asi podcasts with FMEP (specifically about health & Gaza);

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