Healthcare Under Conflict in Sudan

This event will bring together academics and healthcare professionals to shed light on the healthcare crisis in Sudan.

With more than 70% of Sudan’s healthcare facilities currently non-functional according to the International Rescue Committee, speakers will discuss the challenges of delivering care during this increasingly protracted conflict, with insights from research and experience. The event will provide an opportunity to share reflections about what political and humanitarian responses, at local and international levels, may be helpful.

Meet the speakers

Ibrahim Bani is Associate Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Public Health. Bani is a public health physician by training with over 20 years of experience in International Public Health. His teaching experience is extensive, including faculty appointments as an Assistant and Associate Professor (Community Health) at King Saud University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and as a lecturer at Jazeera Medical School Sudan, which is internationally recognized for its innovative community-based training. During his tenure at those academic institutions, he participated in many national training programs sponsored by WHO, USAID, and national governments of Saudi Arabia and Sudan and Iraq.

Eva Khair is a British-Sudanese medical doctor, global and humanitarian health consultant as well as a political and parliamentary advisor on Sudan. She is the founder and director of the Sudan Transnational Consortium, an international network of Sudanese professionals conducting peace-building and collaborating to draw international attention to conflict and humanitarian concerns affecting Sudanese populations in Sudan, in the near-abroad and in the diaspora.

Majdi Osman is a doctor and scientist at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Originally from Sudan, he founded Nubia Health in Wadi Halfa, Sudan building community health worker programs and primary health care centres in the Northern State. He is visiting faculty at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health where he completed his training and is a trustee of the African Research Excellence Fund supporting early career African scientists.

Nahid Toubia is a researcher, practitioner and activist in the field of sexual & reproductive health and rights. She started as the first woman surgeon in Sudan then moved to work internationally first with the Population Council in New York then as the Founder CEO of RINBO: Health & Rights for African Women. She served as a technical advisor to WHO and several UN agencies, national governments in the North and South, the World Bank and was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia School of Public health and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

This event will be chaired by Richard Barltrop.

Richard Barltrop is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and a trustee of the Sudanese Programme. His research is on contemporary international approaches to peacemaking, and why peace processes fail or succeed, with a particular focus on Yemen, Sudan and South Sudan, and considering Libya, Syria and other examples.

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