Sali Hafez
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Protection/Child Abuse
- Coercive Population Control
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- LGBTQ
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
About Sali Hafez
Dr. Sali Hafez is a health justice sociologist, researcher and humanitarian specialist with fifteen years of experience spanning academia, the United Nations, humanitarian organisations and international research and evaluation. Her work examines how power, institutions, inequality and social identity shape health, protection and access to public services, particularly in conflict-affected, displacement-affected and politically complex settings. She has worked extensively across Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Palestine, alongside broader research and humanitarian engagements across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Her expertise spans political economy, health systems, gender and gender-based violence, forced displacement, social and structural determinants of health, decolonial approaches to research and evaluation, and the sociology of humanitarian and public institutions. She has led and contributed to multi-country research, humanitarian needs assessments, evaluations, policy studies and community-engaged research for universities, UN agencies and international organisations. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh and an Archbishop Tutu Fellow, and holds a Doctorate in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
