Public Health Policy Lab in Jordan holds 4th periodic meeting

AMMAN — The Public Health Policy Lab in Jordan, an initiative of the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) and Durrat Al Manal for Development and Training, held its fourth periodic meeting on January 19.

ARDD’s CEO Samar Muhareb, Rana Jawad from the University of Bath, Chaheer Zaki from Cairo University, Rachel Foster from the University of Western Ontario, representatives from the health and justice sectors, social activists, media professionals and civil and international society actors attended the meeting which was chaired by Sawsan Al Majali, according to a statement from the organisers.

The lab, which emerged from the Forum for Supporting the Justice Sector, conducted its first session over three months ago on medical accountability in the public health sector and access to legal protection in Jordan.

Following this session, several meetings were held amongst lab members, consisting of experts in the health and justice fields. Their goal was to design a framework for future dialogues and continue to build upon them using a set of tools and analytical methods that would help integrate the right to health into the justice system, resulting in an improvement to the Jordanian health sector, the statement said.