Biodata of key presenters
1. Conference Chairperson: Prof. Mohammed Shaheen,
Email: cdphc@palnet.com
Mobile: 0599671566
Email: cdphc@palnet.com
Mobile: 0599671566
Office: 2952767, 2799234
Professor Mohammad Shaheen holds a doctoral degree of public health from the
University of Pittsburgh-USA and associate professor of public health and currently
dean school of public health at AlQuds University. Professor Shaheen is also one of
the founding members of the school of public health and one of the founders and the
director of Center for Development in Primary Health Care as part of AlQuds
University which works on different public and psychosocial health issues
implemented at the community level. He is one of the leading pioneers advocating the
psychosocial model in public health and a leading scholar in applying this model on
the different academic and community health programs. He is also a vice president of
Childwatch International (International Research Network) and member of the of the
International Journal Editorial Board of Child Rights and Research (IJCRR)
which aims at promoting child research globally and regionally. He has many
research publications especially in issues related to child health and wellbeing, youth
health, nutrition and reproductive health. He is known as one of the leading experts in
promoting different models of community-based health and development
interventions.
2. Mona Sandbæk
Professor Mona Sandbaek is a senior researcher at NOVA (Norwegian Social
Research Center)-Norway and has been working as a partner with Dr Mohammed
Shaheen as a Co-coordinator on the NUFU project implemented by the Center for
Development in Primary Health Care on different child research projects. She holds a
PhD in social work. Her field of research is child and family policy. She has recently
worked two years in the human rights organization the Council of Europe with issues
regarding children's rights and has been active in promoting child research in the
Middle East and North Africa with Childwatch International represented by Professor
Mohammed Shaheen as a vice president of Childwatch International.
3. Cairo Arafat,
Ph.D. Psychology, Ohio State University. She works as a director General of Aid
Management and Coordination- Ministry of Planning-Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Also functioning in the capacity of Director the Child’s Rights Planning Unit within
the Ministry of Planning. Her work experience within the OPT has been on children's
issues from early childhood development, preschool education, psychosocial
programs, social work for children, advocacy and education for children over the last
15 years. She has conducted research in the areas of child well being, violations of
rights, children's television viewing, psychosocial well being, early screening of
developmental disorders are available upon request. For the last three years I have
been given the responsibility of coordinating and managing international aid for
Palestine. This includes working within the guidelines and principles of the OECD
and Paris Principles.
4. Sturla Falck
Professor Sturla Falck is a senior researcher at NOVA-Norway. He is also research
director for one of NOVAs strategic programmes ”Research-based developmental
work”. He has a professional background within criminology and has directed
numerous research programme within the field of child and welfare research. He has
been a long partner in child research and in promoting child research in MENA
region.
5. Ziad Abdeen
Holds MPH, PhD. An associate professor and director of Institute of AlQuds Institute
of Health and Nutrition Research at AlQuds University. His major research Interests
include Relation between nutritional habits and chronic diseases, environmental
determinants of Childhood Asthma, molecular and Epidemiological aspects of
Cardio-Vascular Complications in Diabetes, Leishmaniasis in the West Bank.
Professor Ziad has been active in different child research and one of the main
researchers of the NUFU project.
6. Marwan Awartani
Dr. Awartani is the Secretary General of the Universal Education
Foundation and a Professor of Mathematics at Al-Quds University.
Prof. Awartani is the founding President of the Palestinian Society
for Mathematical Sciences, Chairman of the Palestinian
Mathematics Olympiad, co-founder of the Network of Palestinian
Scientists and Technologists Abroad, and President of Alpha
International for Research, Polling and Informatics. He was also the
director of the national strategy of science and technology. He also
served as chairman of the academic board and managing director of
Al-Mustaqbal Educational Foundation.
7. Daniel Kropf
Mr. Kropf was the founding chairman of the Universal Education Foundation (UEF).
As a healthcare entrepreneur, he has always pursued
a deeper understanding of human dynamics through
diverse approaches encompassing tools and
methodologies from the western and eastern
cultures. Mr. Kropf established, chaired or directed
several healthcare businesses including Healthcare
Technologies Ltd and the Gamida-For-Life Group.
Mr. Kropf is founder of Education for Life; a Dutch
foundation dedicated to supporting the values,
attitudes and behaviors of caring, responsibility and
respect within and between societies. Mr. Kropf is a
member of the Board of the Evens Foundation. He
serves as the Secretary General of CEJI which
promotes a more inclusive Europe through diversity education within formal and
informal settings as well as organizes dialogues among cultures and religions
throughout Europe.
8. Khuloud Jamal Khayyat Dajani
Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy at the School of Medicine
and the School of Public Health of AlQuds University. Assistant to the President for
the Board of Trustees and Presidency Founding Chairperson, Child Institute for
Health, Development and Learning Former Executive President Assistant, Dean of
Public Health and Director of International Cooperation. Active in promoting child
health and development utilizing the comprehensive health model.
9. Muna Ahmead
Dr Muna Ahmead is assistance professor at both Al-Quds University, School of
Public Health and Arab American University/Jenin. She has a Ph.D in mental health
from University of Manchester, United Kingdom and master degree in International
Public Health from Hebrew University, Hadassah. She is interested in mental health
issues and psychotherapy treatment particularly among adolescents.
10. Motasem HAMDAN, Ph.D.
Dr. HAMDAN is an Assist. Prof. at the School of Public Health, Al-Quds University.
He was born in 1968 in Palestine and he is a father of two children.
He attained a Ph.D. degree in the Medical and Health Sciences (with focus on health
policy) from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 2003, and the Masters
and Bachelor degrees in Health Services Administration from Hacettepe University,
Ankara, Turkey in 1996. He was one of the founders of the School of Public Health,
at Al-Quds, and he assumed different managerial tasks since he joined the School in
1998 include being acting dean, dean assistant and currently head of the unit and chair
of committee for the Master Programme in Health Policy and Management.
11. Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet,
Dr Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet is a Palestinian psychiatrist finished his PhD in Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, Leicester University-UK in 2003. He is the coordinator of
the community mental health program at the graduate school of public health in Gaza.
Now he is working as Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry-Al Quds University. He also published a number of studies in
trauma and PTSD and 4 books in Arabic language. His main interest in research in
trauma and its effect on children and adolescents and management of traumatized
children.
12. Muhammad. M. Haj-Yahia
Professor Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, earned his doctoral degree in social work and
family studies from the University of Minnesota, and is currently an associate
professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research areas include: rates, risk factors,
and mental health consequences of violence against women; beliefs of professionals
and ordinary people about wife beating; psychological effects of child abuse and
neglect; child sexual abuse; children in war areas; mental health consequences of
youth exposure to community violence; and the socio-cultural and socio-political
contexts of child abuse and wife abuse. He has written and published extensively on
these topics in international refereed periodicals and presented his research in tens of
international conferences. Dr. Haj-Yahia served for several years as an associate
editor of Community Alternatives: International Journal for Family Care and on the
editorial board of Stress, Trauma, and Crisis: An International Journal. He has also
served on the editorial board of Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal
and is currently an associate editor of that journal.
13. Abed .M. Assaf
He is an associate professor and chairman of Psychology and Counseling Department,
and Coordinator of graduate program in Educational Administration at Anjah
National University. Published more than twenty papers, and participated in many
Conferences in side and out side the country. Also supervised more than 40 master
thesis in Education and Counseling, and have taught different Coursers in Counseling
psychology and Educational administration.
14. Sumaya Sayej Biography: RN MSN PhD
She is an assistant professor at Al-Quds University and coordinator of higher studies
at the faculty of Health Profession. She also a Child Health and Health
Education/promotion specialist and teaches different courses including child health
and pediatric nursing, research and health education courses at the under graduates
and graduates studies in the Nursing Department/Al-Quds University. She Wrote
many manuals in the field of training at the community level and conducted many
research studies in the areas of child, youth and women’s health
15. Eyad Hallaq, Ph.D
An assistant professor in Psychology and clinical psychologist , Al-Quds University
and director of the Palestinian Center For Traumatic Stress Studies. Coordinator of
psychology – Al-Quds University. He had conducted several studies in the field of
psychosocial field including research on gender and youth.
16. FELETCIA SAMEER SALEH, MD, MPH
She has an undergraduate degree in medicine, graduated from Russian People's
Friendship University in 1998. Involved in the rotating internship for physicians at Al
Maqassed Islamic Charitable Hospital. Since 2000 she has been employed by the
Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in Ramallah. She joined a university
program in the Institute of Community and Public Health ICPH and graduated with a
Master Degree in Public Health MPH in 2004 from Birzeit University. For the last
four years, she has been working as Director of the Child Health Program, one of the
core programs at PMRS.
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‫ عمل‬،‫محامي وناشط في مجال حقوق اإلنسان حاصل على درجة الماجستير في القانون من جامعة القدس‬
‫ عضو في‬،‫كمستشار قانون لعدد من مؤسسات حقوق اإلنسان منها مؤسسة الحق والهيئة المستقلة لحقوق المواطن‬
‫ فرع‬-‫ويعمل حاليا مستشارا قانونيا للحركة العالمية للدفاع عن األطفال‬،‫اللجنة التنسيقية لشبكة المنظمات األهلية‬
‫فلسطين وله العديد من المؤلفات في حقوق اإلنسان كجرائم الحرب والمسؤولية اإلسرائيلية خالل إنتفاضة‬
‫ محكمة أمن الدولة الفلسطينية بين‬،‫ التعذيب حظره ومقاومته‬،‫ قضاء األحداث بين الواقع والقانون‬،‫األقضى‬
‫ وهو عضو لجنة تعديل قانون الطفل الفلسطيني‬.‫الضرورة والمشروعية‬
‫‪ .81‬هدى ابو الحالوة (‪)Huda Abu Elhalawa.18‬‬
‫انهيت الشهادة الجامعية االولى‪ -‬بكالوريوس تمريض عام‪،‬‬
‫‪1986.‬‬
‫ودبلوم قبالة عام‪1991 ،‬‬
‫ماجستير امومة و طفولة عام‪3002 ،‬‬
‫مجاالت العمل متعددة في‪ :‬الرعاية االولية‪ ،‬التثقيف‬
‫الصحي‪ ،‬المستشفيات‪ ،‬واالبحاث; بحث في مشاكل ومفاهيم‬
‫‪.‬واحتياجات المرأة الفلسطينية في سن االمان‬
‫بحث في اثر الحمل على االمهات في سن المراهقة وانعكاسه‬
‫‪.‬على مواليدهن‬
‫مشروع بحث عن الحمل وأثره على التغذية للمراهقات في قيد‬
‫‪.‬الدراسة‬
‫‪.‬العمل الحالي في التعليم الجامعي بمجال التمريض‬
‫‪-19‬غادة ياسين‪-‬عاروري‬
‫من مدينة القدس‪ ،‬تعمل كمسؤولة البرامج لدى إنقاذ الطفل السويدية منذ ‪ .1999‬التحصيل العلمي بكالوريوس‬
‫اداره أعمال تخصص اقتصاد‪ ،‬باإلضافة إلى خبرات عديدة في التدريب حول حقوق الطفل والمرأة وحقوق‬
‫اإلنسان‪ ،‬المشاركة في أو إنجا أبحاث مرتكةة على المشاركة والحقوق‪ ،‬تنفيذ برامج مناصرة حول حقوق الطفل‬
‫الفلسطيني‪ .‬من أهم األبحاث‪ :‬يكبرون تحت منع التجول‪ ،‬الحياة خلف الحواجة‪ ،‬امرأة أم طفلة؟‬
‫‪. 20‬رياض عرار‬
‫حاصل على شهادة البكالوريوس في الخدمة االجتماعية من جامعة بيت لحم‬
‫ودبلوم عالي باالرشاد االسري واالشراف االرشادي من جامعة بير يت‬
‫ناشط في مجال حقوق الطفل وحقوق االنسان واعمل حاليا في الحركة العالمية للدفاع عن االطفال ‪/‬فرع =‬
‫فلسطين كمنسق التطوير والتدريب في المؤسسة‬
‫يشغل منصب امين سر نقابة االخصائيين االجتماعيين والنفسيين الفلسطينية ‪ /‬محافظة الخليل كما يعمل مشرف‬
‫اكاديمي في جامعة القدس المفتوحة –منطقة الخليل التعليمية‬
‫‪21. Samia Halileh‬‬
‫‪FRCPCH; Fellow at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health/‬‬
‫;‪London.2005, Ph.D. Warwick University/ UK. 2001, MRCP; Paediatrics‬‬
‫‪London / UK. 1993, DCCH; (Diploma in Community Child Health), Sheffield‬‬
‫‪University/ UK.1990, MBChB; Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield / UK. 1984.‬‬
‫‪Work in Palestine at UNICEF/Jerusalem and Birzeit University/Birzeit has included:‬‬
‫‪Child Growth and Nutrition; Child Protection; Child development and Screening.‬‬
‫‪She has many publications in the field of child health.‬‬
‫‪Conference Chairperson: Prof. Mohammed Shaheen‬‬
‫‪Conference Logistic Committee Coordinator : Ms. Salam AlKhatib‬‬
‫‪Members of the Logistic Committee‬‬
‫‪Dr Muna Ahmead‬‬
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‫‪Mrs Maha Nubani‬‬
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‫‪Mr Sabri Safadi‬‬
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Mrs Huda Abu Halawa
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Mrs Rula Jadallha
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Mr Riad Arar
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Amal Daoud
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Miss Labibah Shhabi