Health System Resilience Amidst Political Instability: the Case of Lebanon
A seminar with Walid Ammar, MD, PhD, Director General, Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon; Professor, The Lebanese University; Senior Lecturer, American University of Beirut.
Moderated by Melani Cammett, Professor of Government, Harvard University.
The Lebanese experience, notably with the recent challenging Syrian crisis, defies certain well-established concepts in the discipline of public health. The speaker contests the globalization of the corresponding paradigms as they overlook important contextual factors and innovations in governance, particularly in the context of political instability. (Read More)