Ibrahim Bou-Orm

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Medical doctor and Assistant Professor of Public Health at St. Joseph’s University of Beirut

Dr. Ibrahim Bou-Orm is a medical doctor with extensive expertise in global public health. Starting in 2017, he worked with the Lebanese Ministry of Health as the national coordinator for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and refugee health. In 2018, he joined the Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (QMU) for an NIHR-funded doctoral fellowship and later joined the IGHD faculty as a lecturer and subsequently as the teaching lead. He also has an academic affiliation with St. Joseph’s University of Beirut (USJ) as an Assistant Professor of Public Health.

His current research focuses on analyzing health systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings in the Middle East and Africa. He has co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications. In recent years, he has served as a consultant for local and international NGOs and UN agencies across the Middle East, including the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.

Dr. Bou-Orm holds an MD from USJ, an MPH from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and a PhD from QMU Edinburgh.