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Duha Shellah

Duha Shellah (MD) is Vice Chair, WHO EMRO Youth Council; Chair, Public Health in Emergencies & Disasters Working Group, World Federation of Public Health Associations; elected member, IAP (InterAcademy Partnership) Policy Advice Committee; Founder & Chairwoman, The Researchist Organization; and Coordinator, Medical & Health Sciences Division, Palestine Academy for Science & Technology.
 

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Beyond “Polycrisis”: What Gaza Reveals About the Limits of Global Health Governance

In recent years, global health discourse has increasingly adopted the term “ polycrisis” to describe the confluence of different global crises — armed conflict, the climate emergency, pandemics, and economic instability — that collectively strain health systems and governance structures. The concept indeed captures an important reality ...

Transforming Health Responses in Humanitarian Settings: A Policy Agenda for Gender-Responsive, Trauma-Informed, and Decolonized Care

(A reflection on CSW69 and the need for transformative health responses in emergencies) As humanitarian crises multiply across the globe, from Gaza to Sudan to Yemen, the health needs of women and girls in conflict zones remain consistently underserved. Despite decades of global health and humanitarian interventions, current systems ofte...

From the 4th Global NCD Alliance Forum to the UN High-Level meeting on NCDs: Closing the Gaps on Conflict, Gender, and Youth Leadership

Despite growing global recognition of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as a major health challenge, significant gaps remain in how the global NCD movement addresses the needs of conflict-affected populations, meaningfully engages youth leadership, and integrates a gender lens. These issues were particularly evident during the recent  4th Glo...

Time to Address Intergenerational Reproductive Injustice for women and girls in Palestine

“…We render special tribute to that brave Palestinian woman, guardian of sustenance and life, keeper of our people’s perennial flame” The Palestinian independence declaration, 1988 Women and girls in Palestine have undergone systematic discrimination, violence and denial of their sexual and reproductive health and rights for decades. In...