11/07/2026
Three generations of FHS leadership. One shared salute to a pioneer. 🤝✨
When Birzeit University awarded the prestigious Lifetime Service Achievement Award to Professor Rita Giacaman at the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH), the news resonated deeply here in Beirut, celebrating over 30 years of impactful public health collaboration between and .
This remarkable legacy has been built on friendship, shared values, and trust, without a single formal agreement ever being signed between the two institutions. Side by side, and معهد الصحة العامة والمجتمعية - جامعة بيرزيت - icph have shaped regional public health through landmark initiatives:
➖Reproductive Health Working Group (since 1988)
➖The Palestinian Health Alliance (since 2009)
➖Landmark book on “Public Health in the Arab World” (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
➖The Lancet Series on ‘Health in the Arab World’ (2014)
In a powerful testament, current FHS Dean Abla Mehio Sibai joined former deans Huda Zurayk and Iman Nuwayhid in a collective letter of congratulations, honoring a partnership that continues to inspire.
Read the letter here 👉
https://www.aub.edu.lb/fhs/Documents/Misc%20Documents/Congratulations_RitaGiacaman_Lifetime%20Service%20Achievement_Award.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawS-8ZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFlb3FQQm1oY2VON21aWmh1c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtIjuLdFxi-N1Y8Qf0P83UU8WuKH97OzM1fHS__1lc7bxb_P14jQ0s9Qon3m_aem_6-N_GV544EevY46TUVrTSQ
Three generations of FHS leadership. One shared salute to a pioneer. 🤝✨
When Birzeit University awarded the prestigious Lifetime Service Achievement Award to Professor Rita Giacaman at the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH), the news resonated deeply here in Beirut, celebrating over 30 years of impactful public health collaboration between and .
This remarkable legacy has been built on friendship, shared values, and trust, without a single formal agreement ever being signed between the two institutions. Side by side, and معهد الصحة العامة والمجتمعية - جامعة بيرزيت - icph have shaped regional public health through landmark initiatives:
➖Reproductive Health Working Group (since 1988)
➖The Palestinian Health Alliance (since 2009)
➖Landmark book on “Public Health in the Arab World” (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
➖The Lancet Series on ‘Health in the Arab World’ (2014)
In a powerful testament, current FHS Dean Abla Mehio Sibai joined former deans Huda Zurayk and Iman Nuwayhid in a collective letter of congratulations, honoring a partnership that continues to inspire.
Read the letter here 👉
https://www.aub.edu.lb/fhs/Documents/Misc%20Documents/Congratulations_RitaGiacaman_Lifetime%20Service%20Achievement_Award.pdf