On 20 January 2014, the Lancet published a series of papers addressing health issues in the Arab world. The series is based on evidence interpreted by scholars from the region and adopts a multidisciplinary approach that includes medical, public health, social, and political perspectives.
The project is a collaboration between the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, the Institute of Community and Public Health of Birzeit University, and the Lancet, and comes one week before the Arab Health conference, which begins on 27 January in Dubai.
The topics include the following:
- The state of health in the Arab world
- Governance and health in the Arab world
- Noncommunicable diseases in the Arab world
- The path toward universal health coverage
- Changing therapeutic geographies of the Iraq and Syrian wars
- Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world
- Comments, viewpoints, and essays on the series
