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Mervat Alhaffar

MSc BScPharm

Research Fellow

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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I am a pharmacist who graduated from Damascus University in Syria. I have eight years of experience as a healthcare provider in Syria before and during the conflict. I was awarded an MSc in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2019.
An Alumna of both Chevening & LSHTM Scholarships.

 

 

Affiliations
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Research

After graduation from LSHTM, I started working in academic research as I got involved in different projects at the school:
1- Governance & adaptation of health system in Syria.

2- Estimation of crisis-attributable mortality in Yemen. 

3- Gender issues & gender-based violence in conflict-affected countries.

4- Governance of vaccine delivery for children in humanitarian settings.

 

Research Area
Conflict
Health systems
Equity
Gender
Violence
Country
Syria
Yemen
Region
Arab World
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications
We cannot erase Syrians' suffering with \"solidarity\" and political infighting.
Khaity M; Alhaffar M; Howard N
2023
Lancet (London, England)
Adult mortality before and during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in nine communities of Yemen: a key informant study.
Alhaffar M; Basaleem H; Othman F; Alsakkaf K; Naji SMM; Kolaise H; Babattah AK; Salem YAM; Brindle H; Yahya N
2022
Conflict and Health
'We are trying to live in a normal way, but nothing is normal about us anymore…': a qualitative study of women's lived experiences of healthcare in opposition-controlled areas of Syria.
Alhaffar M; Hamid A; Douedari Y; Howard N
2022
BMJ Global Health
\"They cannot afford to feed their children and the advice is to stay home. How‥?\": A qualitative study of community experiences of COVID-19 response efforts across Syria.
Alhaffar M; Mkhallalati H; Alrashid Alhiraki O; Marzouk M; Khanshour A; Douedari Y; Howard N
2022
PloS one
'We need someone to deliver our voices': reflections from conducting remote qualitative research in Syria.
Douedari Y; Alhaffar M; Duclos D; Al-Twaish M; Jabbour S; Howard N
2021
Conflict and health
Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Aden governorate, Yemen.
Koum Besson ES; Norris A; Bin Ghouth AS; Freemantle T; Alhaffar M; Vazquez Y; Reeve C; Curran PJ; Checchi F
2021
BMJ global health
Whose voices should shape global health education? Curriculum codesign and codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience.
Sbaiti M; Streule MJ; Alhaffar M; Pilkington V; Leis M; Budhathoki SS; Mkhallalati H; Omar M; Liu L; Golestaneh AK
2021
BMJ global health
Leveraging community mortality indicators to infer COVID-19 mortality and transmission dynamics in Damascus, Syria.
Watson OJ; Alhaffar M; Mehchy Z; Whittaker C; Akil Z; Brazeau NF; Cuomo-Dannenburg G; Hamlet A; Thompson HA; Baguelin M
2021
Nature communications
Under-reporting of deaths limits our understanding of true burden of covid-19.
Whittaker C; Walker PGT; Alhaffar M; Hamlet A; Djaafara BA; Ghani A; Ferguson N; Dahab M; Checchi F; Watson OJ
2021
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
\"Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a 'germ'?\": A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria
Douedari Y; Alhaffar M; Al-Twaish M; Mkhallalati H; Alwany R; Ibrahim NBM; Zaseela A; Horanieh N; Abbara A; Howard N
2020
Journal of migration and health
Lessons from humanitarian clusters to strengthen health system responses to mass displacement in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review.
Durrance-Bagale A; Salman OM; Omar M; Alhaffar M; Ferdaus M; Newaz S; Krishnan S; Howard N
2020
Journal of Migration and Health
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Mervat Alhaffar

Contact

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom