Palestinian Social Movements in Health: Sumud (Steadfastness) Through the Provision of Healthcare

Please join us for this year’s first Israel-Palestine Series event.

Palestinian Social Movements in Health: Sumud (Steadfastness) Through the Provision of Healthcare

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
7:00pm
In Person at Norlin Library
CBIS (5th Floor)

This talk will focus on the social mobilization around healthcare that began in Palestine in the late 1970s and 80s within the infrastructure of Sumud (steadfastness) and grew into the establishment of a Palestinian led primary healthcare system under Israeli occupation. Hammoudeh will explore the factors that gave rise to these movements and how they evolved at key junctures, including the first Palestinian Intifada or uprising, the Oslo Accords to the present. Hammoudeh will also connect by reflecting on the roles of health workers in Sumud and resistance throughout the quest for Palestinian liberation and later statehood, and the provision of healthcare as a form Sumud, especially as we have seen in the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH), Birzeit University, a Visiting Scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and co-Director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights. Her research seeks to understand how political, social and structural factors shape health, as well as how health systems and social institutions develop and shift in relation to political, economic, and structural transformations.