Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha

Head of Strategic Partnerships, MENA Region, IsraAid

Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Fraiha is a medical doctor with a specialty in internal medicine and critical care medicine, and a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on health policy and politics that create inequality in health services and outcomes for underserved communities.  She currently serves as the Head of Strategic Partnerships in the Middle East at IsraAID, as well as Secretary of the Board of the New Israel Fund. She formerly served as the Health Policy Director at the Task Force for Health Promotion and Equity in the Arab Society at the Israeli Ministry of Health, leading major efforts and interventions to deal with health disparities between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and advises multiple NGOs aiming to improve Bedouin lives and shared society in Israel.  Yasmeen holds an MD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.