Fouad M. Fouad

Commissioner

Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Co-Director of the Refugee Health Program at Global Health Institute

Fouad M. Fouad M.D is a Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Co-Director of the Refugee Health Program at Global Health Institute, and a Research Fellow at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Fouad’s extensive research on migration and health, which includes a focus on multidisciplinary approaches to forced displacement, health systems in humanitarian settings, and the political economy of health in protracted crises, underscores his expertise and commitment to addressing global health challenges. His role as a member of several technical working groups, including the WHO Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants and Refugees and the Global Research Agenda on Health and Migration, underscores his expertise and influence in the field.

In the last decade, Fouad has worked as a professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He was also the IDRC Chair of the Forced Displacement Program in the Middle East. He served as a commissioner in the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health (2018) and is currently a commissioner in the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Migration.