Fadi El-Jardali

Biographic Data

ID1100658
NAMEFadi El-Jardali
GIVEN NAMESFadi
FAMILY NAMEEl-Jardali
SIGNATUREEL-JARDALI F
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University of Beirut
ORCID0000-0002-4084-6524
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Public health interventions for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian emergencies

    Open AccessAndrew Aoun, Lama Bou-Karroum et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    The protocol was registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and can be accessed at [ https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HF4QN ]

  • Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis

    Open AccessAku Kwamie, Lucy Gilson et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026References: 13

    Health systems are at a crossroads. Globally, health systems are straining under the weight of responding to persistent and emergent challenges. Uncertainties in health financing, service delivery, new technologies and disease burdens are hindering health systems abilities to maximize collective and scaled action to achieve health equity and social justice. In March 2025, a group of health policy and systems experts were convened by an organizati…

  • Role of a primary healthcare approach in Covid-19 pandemic response in the eastern Mediterranean region

    Open AccessFadi El-Jardali, Nour Ataya et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Primary healthcare (PHC) can play a critical role in disease preparedness and response. The PHC approach was not always considered in the COVID-19 response in the eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). This article assesses the extent to which a PHC approach was deployed in the pandemic response and identifies barriers, enablers and lessons learnt for strengthening PHC for disease preparedness and response in EMR. METHODS: A multicount…

  • Shifting the centre of gravity in the global evidence ecosystem for health

    Open AccessTanja Kuchenmüller, Sandy Oliver et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Global challenges in recent years, including humanitarian, climate-related and public health crises, have highlighted critical weaknesses in the application of evidence in decision-making, both locally and globally

  • Emergency preparedness and health system resilience assessment tool

    Open AccessFadi El-Jardali, Priyanka D Kanth et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been one of the most significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The escalating frequency and complexity of global health threats-from pandemics like COVID-19 to climate change-induced emergencies-have elevated the imperative for stronger and more resilient health systems in the MENA region and the world over. In this paper, we introduce a tool designed to offer a comprehensive and e…

  • Mixed method program impact evaluation

    Open AccessFadi El-Jardali, Jade Khalife et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The REBAHS LPSP II action launched in May 2022 by International Medical Corps (IMC) and Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) in Lebanon is a continuation of previous initiatives implemented in Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCCs) with the key aim to support service provision in PHCCs. This study aims to present a multi-faceted impact evaluation approach, quantifying the outcomes of the action and identifying areas for improvement. A mixed-method a…

  • Exploring factors that shaped Syrian refugees integration into Lebanon’s national health system using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework

    Open AccessFadi El-Jardali, Gladys Honein‐AbouHaidar et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2025

    This study highlights the role of global actors, such as UNHCR, WHO among others, as the main entrepreneurs in integrating refugees into the Lebanese health care system. It also underscored the ad-hoc non-systematic approach with which the policies around refugee health response were made in Lebanon and the influence of political factors. Although the mutual benefits to both host and refugee communities were recognized, many challenges threaten i…

  • Understanding the organization and delivery of health services following the repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts in Uganda

    Open AccessHenry Komakech, Lynn Atuyambe et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2025

    Refugee repatriation disrupted health service delivery in the refugee hosting districts, leading to a reduction in funding; inadequate skilled health workers and equipment; and the closure of some facilities. To ensure the continuity of health services, government and aid agencies should plan for repatriation and establish strategies to sustain health services in refugee-hosting areas

  • Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience

    Open AccessRawya Khodor, Lama Bou Karroum et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: With shifts in international aid, international donors have increasingly regarded non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as capable of providing alternative public service arrangements. As funding flows to NGOs, particularly in contexts where both actors work towards strengthening health system resilience, NGO-donor relationships evolve. However, despite calls to investigate the contribution of relationships between actors within hea…

  • Financing for equity for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessLama Bou-Karroum, Domenico Gerardo Iaia et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed considerable progress in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet deep inequities remain between and within countries. This scoping review aims to map financing interventions and measures to improve equity in WCAH in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This scoping review was conducted following Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidan…

  • Integrating Syrian refugees into Lebanon’s healthcare system 2011–2022

    Open AccessGladys Honein‐AbouHaidar, Lama Bou-Karroum et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2024

    Integrating refugees in national health systems is essential to achieve sustainable development goals, in particular universal health coverage. Although it can strengthen the capacity of national health systems, the integration of refugees in low-resource settings can be challenging due to existing health system arrangements (e.g., heavily privatized care, curative-oriented, high out-of-pocket, fragmentation across multiple financing sources, and…

  • Assessing the integration of refugee health data into national health information systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Uganda

    Open AccessLama Bou-Karroum, Najla Daher et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2024

    The current status of refugee-related health data in Jordan, Lebanon, and Uganda indicates the need for improved data collection and reporting practices, disaggregation by refugee status and better integration of refugee health data into national HIS to capture the health status and needs of refugees in host countries. Key improvement strategies include establishing a centralized authority for consistent and efficient data management, fostering t…

  • Approaches to prioritising primary health research

    Open AccessRacha Fadlallah, Najla Daher et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    OBJECTIVE: To systematically identify and describe approaches to prioritise primary research topics in any health-related area. METHODS: We searched Medline and CINAHL databases and Google Scholar. Teams of two reviewers screened studies and extracted data in duplicate and independently. We synthesised the information across the included approaches by developing common categorisation of relevant concepts. RESULTS: Of 44 392 citations, 30 articles…

  • Time for a new global roadmap for supporting evidence into action

    Open AccessTanja Kuchenmüller, John N Lavis et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

  • Covid-19

    Open AccessTanja Kuchenmüller, John C Reeder et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has put research evidence and its use in health policy-making under a new spotlight.1 Faced with the need for immediate action, as most recently shown with vaccination roll-out strategies,2 many politicians and other leaders have publicly stressed the need to follow the ‘science’. Scientific advisors and advisory bodies have gained unprecedented visibility. At the same time, the conflicts between researchers/health experts a…

  • Reimagining health systems

    Open AccessSara Bennett, Fadi El-Jardali et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

  • Insights from system leaders about operationalising a knowledge translation department in the Oman Ministry of Health

    Sultana Al Sabahi, M Glen Wilson et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2021References: 12

    Background: Oman has prioritised enhanced efforts for supporting evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM), including establishing a knowledge translation department in the Omani Ministry of Health (MOH). Aim and objective: Our aim was to gather insights to guide the process of activating this department. Methods: We conducted a document review and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders who are familiar …

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO–Unicef–Lancet Commission

    Open AccessHelen Clark, Awa Marie Coll-Seck et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological degradation, migrating populations, conflict, pervasive inequalities, and predatory commercial practices threaten the health and future of children in every country. In 2015, the world's countries agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet nearly 5 years later, few countries ha…

  • Understanding the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for health policy and systems research

    Open AccessSara Bennett, Nasreen Jessani et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Given the paradigmatic shift represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as compared to the Millennium Development Goals - in particular their broad and interconnected nature - a new set of health policy and systems research (HPSR) priorities are needed to inform strategies to address these interconnected goals. OBJECTIVES: To identify high priority HPSR questions linked to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Go…

  • Health Care Workers in the setting of the “Arab Spring”

    Open AccessLama Bou-Karroum, Karim N Daou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: "Health Care Workers in Conflict Areas" emerged as one of the priority themes for a Lancet Commission addressing health in conflict. The objective of our study was to conduct a scoping review on health workers in the setting of the Syrian conflict, addressing four topics of interest: violence against health care workers, education, practicing in conflict setting, and migration. METHODS: Considering the likelihood of scarcity of data, …

  • The governmental health policy-development process for Syrian refugees

    Open AccessAhmad Firas Khalid, John N Lavis et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2019

    This study suggests that use of research evidence in the policy-development process for Syrian refugees was subordinate to key political factors, resulting in limited influence of research evidence in the development of both the Lebanese and Ontarian policy

  • Building resilient health systems

    Open AccessMargaret E Kruk, Emilia J Ling et al.ARTICLEBMJ2017

    Health system resilience begins with measurement of critical capacities ahead of crisis say Margaret E Kruk and colleagues

  • Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria

    Open AccessFouad Mohamed Fouad, Annie Sparrow et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

  • Privilege and inclusivity in shaping Global Health agendas

    Open AccessKay Sheikh, Kabir Sheikh et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Rasch Measurement Analysis of a 25-Item Version of the Mueller/McCloskey Nurse Job Satisfaction Scale in a Sample of Nurses in Lebanon and Qatar

    Open AccessMichael Clinton, Nuhad Yazbik Dumit et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2015

    The Mueller/McCloskey Nurse Job Satisfaction Scale (MMSS) is widely used, but its psychometric characteristics have not been sufficiently validated for use in Middle Eastern countries. The objective of our methodological study was to determine the psychometric suitability of a 25-item version of the MMSS (MMSS-25) for use in middle-income and high-income Middle Eastern countries. A total of 1,322 registered nurses, 859 in Lebanon and 463 in Qatar…