Team

Dr. Dawn Chatty
Dr. Dawn Chatty
Project Manager
  • Email dawn.chatty@bedouinhealth.org
  • Dawn Chatty is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East as a university teacher, development practitioner, and advocate for indigenous rights. She has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of California at San Diego, the American University of Beirut, the University of Damascus, Sultan Qaboos University and at the University of Oxford. She has worked with the regional offices of various international agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, IFAD, and USAID. Dr Chatty’s research interests include nomadic pastoralism and conservation, gender and development, health, illness and culture, and coping strategies of youth and their care givers in prolonged conflict and forced migration. Her most recent books include Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (ed. with Marcus Colchester), Berghahn Press, 2002, Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (ed. with Gillian Lewando-Hundt), Berghahn Press, 2005, and Handbook on Nomads in the Middle East and North Africa (ed.) Brill, 2006..
Dr. Faysal El-Kak
Dr. Faysal El-Kak
Lebanon Project Manager
  • Tel. 009613255257
  • Email faysal.elkak@bedouinhealth.org
  • Faysal El Kak is an Obstetrician- Gynecologist, public health practitioner and a reproductive sexual health (RSH) professional involved in clinical and academic work. In addition, he is a Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut (FHS- AUB) engaged in teaching, and research activities on women’s & youth health and childbirth. He has worked with national, regional and various international agencies and organizations as consultant and advisor including UNFPA and WHO. Currently he is; • The president of the Lebanese Society of obstetrics and gynecology • A member of the national committee on maternal mortality • A member of the global committee on cervical cancer prevention • The Co- Chair of the Middle east Sexual Health Group, World Association of Sexual Health • A member and trainer, CSBR, coalition of sexual and bodily rights • A member and founding member of transparency Lebanon "la fasad". Dr. Kak has many publications and chapters in many international journals and books such as; Gender based violence services (2011), Gender based violence in Lebanon, (2006), Abortion: Arab States. Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Vol. III, P. 303), and Patterns of sexual behavior in MENA, in ICO monographs, in press.
Dr. Nisrine Mansour
Dr. Nisrine Mansour
Research Fellow
  • Email n.mansour@lse.ac.uk
  • Nisrine Mansour is a Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre working on research related to currently working on the project “Unlocking crises of protracted displacement for refugees and internally displaced persons”. The project, funded by the Norwegian Government, includes a case study on Iraqi refugees in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan and is concerned with assessing the complex nature of both circular and irregular migration within this emerging protracted crisis. For the past two years Nisrine worked on the project "Improving access to and quality of reproductive and child healthcare to marginal peoples". The project is part of a joint EU grant with Warwick University involving Bedouin in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon and the northern desert of Jordan. It assesses the current health status and health seeking behavior and practices of these populations in relation to reproductive and child health and analyses the state of current health care delivery and will develop model interventions to improve their access to healthcare. Nisrine holds a doctorate from the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics. She is currently preparing publications based on her thesis entitled “Governing the personal: Family law and women’s subjectivity and agency in post-conflict Lebanon”. She was affiliated to the LSE’s Centre for Civil Society where she taught on the MSc programme NGOs and Development for several years. She also consulted and worked with several international and local organizations on issues of economic and social development, governance, and gender equality in Lebanon and the Middle East. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French, and has functional knowledge of Spanish. Projects with which Dr. Mansour is affiliated: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/research/humanitarian-response/improving-healthcare-for-marginal-peoples http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/research/international-institutions/unlocking-crises.
Dr. Nasser Yassin
Dr. Nasser Yassin
Project Coordinator
  • Email nasser.yassin@aub.edu.lb
  • Dr. Nasser Yassin holds a PhD in Development Planning from the Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment at University College London, an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Population Studies from the American University of Beirut. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut where he teaches population studies and health policy. He also heads the Outreach and Practice Unit at the Faculty which aims at linking research, teaching and practice. His research interests are mainly centered on studying urbanization and conflict, social relations and community development..