Yasmeen Abu Fraiha

Exploration question

How do war, conflict and trauma impact the health and wellbeing of children, and what can be done to deal with it and – most importantly – prevent it?

Yasmeen is a medical doctor with a specialty in internal medicine and critical care medicine, and a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on health policy and politics that create inequality in health services and outcomes for underserved communities.

She formerly served as the Health Policy Director at the Task Force for Health Promotion and Equity in the Arab Society at the Israeli Ministry of Health, leading major efforts and interventions to deal with health disparities between Jews and Arabs in Israel. She also serves on multiple Board of Directors of NGOs aiming to improve Bedouin lives in Israel. Yasmeen holds a BSc and MD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.