Birth: NULL/NULL/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Bethlehem on 21 March 1950; worked as a teaching and research assistant at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, from 1973-77; graduated from that University with a PhD in Clinical Pharmacy in 1977; worked as a Clinician and tutor at the Presbyterian Hospital Medical Centre, San Francisco, California, from 1977-78; returned to the West Bank and became Assistant Professor at the Biology Dept. at Birzeit University from 1978-1984; continued her studies and received an MPhil in Sociology/Social Policy with a focus on health and women from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, in 1985; founding member and research coordinator of the Community Health Dept. at Birzeit University from 1985-1987, and since 1988 its Director; since 1993, founding member and lecturer/researcher at the Program of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University; Steering Committee member of the UK-based World University Services Training Program for Palestinian Women; member of the UNDP Committee for the Advancement of Women in Palestinian Society; conducted a variety of feasibility studies and evaluations of health and social/developmental projects in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt and Yemen; has written extensively on health issues and co-authored several books, incl. Psychosocial/ Mental Health Care in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the Embryonic System (Institute of Community and Public Health in cooperation with the Center for Continuing Education, Birzeit University, 2004).
