The Faculty of Health Sciences in hosting a lecture on tobacco regulation as well as a symposium on the impacts of conflicts and wars on health on March 18
Dr Ghazi Zaatari, the chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, will be presenting a lecture on "Tobacco Product Regulation: Purpose, Process, and Progress," on March 18, at 12noon in Van Dyck Amphitheater.
The lecture is organized by the Faculty of Health Sciences.
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Later that day, at 3pm, also in Van Dyck Amphitheater, the Center for Research on Population and Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences will host a three-day symposium on entitled "Understanding the Impact of Conflicts and Wars on Health."
The symposium is co-organized with the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University on Conflict and Health in the Middle East and North Africa.
Presenters will include:
Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale University
Dr. Alissar Rady, World Health Organization (WHO) Beirut Office
Dr. Sati Arnaout, Nahr al-Barid Reconstruction Unit at the Prime Ministers Office
Mr. Hassan Ammar, the Islamic Health Society
Dr. Mounir Mabsout, AUB, Ms. Aline Ghazar, AUB
Moderators: Dr. Iman Nuwayhid (Dean of FHS, AUB) and Dr. Marcia Inhorn (Yale University)
