Yara Asi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yara Asi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yara |
| FAMILY NAME | Asi |
| SIGNATURE | ASI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3432-6407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hospital functionality in the Gaza Strip
This study provides additional evidence that the Gaza Strip's hospital system was directly affected by the first year of the conflict, greatly impacting the ability to provide critical health services
Interrogating the role of sociopolitical determinants of health in Palestine
For decades, Palestinians have faced significant barriers to developing and accessing basic health services, leading to poor health outcomes. These issues are often characterized as mere 'humanitarian issues,' ignoring the broader sociopolitical context. This study aims to explore the discourse surrounding the structural and sociopolitical determinants shaping Palestinian health. We conducted in-depth interviews with experts ( N = 15) on Palestin…
Framing Gaza
A main feature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been the systematic destruction of the healthcare system. The Israeli military has methodically generated conditions that drive disease, disability, and death, while simultaneously dismantling the capability of the health system to respond. Despite a purported emphasis on issues such as health equity and social determinants of health, many influential medical bodies across the world have failed t…
Refugee Health Under Protracted Structural Oppression
Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
For decades, the links between security and health, as well as securitisation and health, have been assessed in response to health emergencies (e.g. HIV/AIDS, SARS, H5N1, H1N1, Ebola, Zika) across various geographical contexts. The COVID-19 pandemic presented additional opportunities to evaluate this nexus. This paper analyses securitisation processes of COVID-19 within the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). We find that in addition to the e…
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Assessing the Universality of Universal Health Coverage
Universal health coverage (UHC) is founded on a commitment to health coverage for all. Israel claims to have achieved UHC, while public health services in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are left primarily to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In this article, we assess Israel’s responsibility for health in the OPT by examining Israel’s sovereignty over the OPT. We argue that Israel legally and practically remains the sole sovereign entit…
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza
Impact of Covid-19 on Florida family dependency drug courts
Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023
After attacks in Israel led by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has featured an unprecedented scale of destruction. This has included the use of highly destructive weapons in a densely populated area. Mark-84 bombs (M-84s) are 2000 lb air-dropped explosive munitions with the capacity to damage infrastructure and kill or cause severe injury hundreds of meters away. This study exam…
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health eq…
Nowhere and no one is safe’
Spatial statistical analysis suggests widespread damage to critical civilian infrastructure that should have been provided protection under IHL. These findings raise serious allegations about the violation of IHL, especially in light of Israeli officials' statements explicitly inciting violence and displacement and multiple widely reported acts of collective punishment
Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine
Because its power remains naturalized
Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and i…
Problem-Solving Court Staff Preferences for Educational Videos about Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Problem-solving courts use an interdisciplinary approach with treatment mandates, hearings, and monitoring to rehabilitate individuals arrested for drug-related crimes or lost custody of children due to drug use. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are the standard of care for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), but few problem-solving court clients with OUD are referred to MOUD. Previous studies found court staff often harbor misconceptio…
Assessing gender responsiveness of Covid-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies
Despite overwhelming evidence about the importance of intentionally embedding gender considerations into the COVID-19 planning and response, none of the plans reviewed in this study were classified as 'gender transformative.' We use these results to make specific recommendations for how infectious disease control efforts, for COVID-19 and beyond, can better integrate gender considerations in humanitarian settings, and particularly those affected …
Palestinian Dependence on External Health Services
Through multiple mechanisms, armed conflict degrades and destroys health systems, leaving significant gaps in care delivery that lead to worse health outcomes. Civilian populations are often left at the mercy of multiple stakeholders to attain health care. Often, they are unable to meet their needs within their own territory. This has been documented as the case throughout the occupied Palestinian territories for decades. In this paper, I argue t…
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East
Achieving Food Security Through Localisation, Not Aid
Food aid is a common response to the food insecurity brought by conflict and inadequate development. Yet the very well-intentioned actions that are meant to stave off immediate humanitarian crises may, in the long-term, serve as tools that promote dependence, decrease the likelihood of sustainable development, and make peace less possible. In this article, I examine food insecurity and food aid in the conflict-affected Palestinian territories. I …
Security or Segregation? The Palestinians, the Wall, and Peace
Stark in appearance, the wall contrasts with the surrounding green of olive and fig trees, prickly pear cacti, and the verdant lawns of the houses in the settlements: gray slabs of concrete in some
Equality through Innovation
Technological innovation has served as a useful catalyst for development goals across sectors, from agriculture to education. Various forms of health information technology (HIT), such as mobile health and telemedicine, have been used globally to support health care delivery systems. Forms of HIT, developed primarily by men in rich countries, are touted to support all patients and providers. However, while women perform most global health deliver…
Conflict and well-being
Life under occupation
There is substantial evidence that individuals affected by conflict suffer poor physical and mental outcomes, particularly in indicators of well-being. This study assesses the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), perceived stress and insecurity of Palestinian young adults in the West Bank. We surveyed 398 university students from Nablus (mean age = 20.1) using the SF-36 to measure HRQoL, the PSS-4 to assess stress and a context-specific insecu…
Achieving Food Security Through Localisation, Not Aid
Food aid is a common response to the food insecurity brought by conflict and inadequate development. Yet the very well-intentioned actions that are meant to stave off immediate humanitarian crises may, in the long-term, serve as tools that promote dependence, decrease the likelihood of sustainable development, and make peace less possible. In this article, I examine food insecurity and food aid in the conflict-affected Palestinian territories. I …
Equality through Innovation
Technological innovation has served as a useful catalyst for development goals across sectors, from agriculture to education. Various forms of health information technology (HIT), such as mobile health and telemedicine, have been used globally to support health care delivery systems. Forms of HIT, developed primarily by men in rich countries, are touted to support all patients and providers. However, while women perform most global health deliver…
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Security or Segregation? The Palestinians, the Wall, and Peace
Stark in appearance, the wall contrasts with the surrounding green of olive and fig trees, prickly pear cacti, and the verdant lawns of the houses in the settlements: gray slabs of concrete in some
Life under occupation
There is substantial evidence that individuals affected by conflict suffer poor physical and mental outcomes, particularly in indicators of well-being. This study assesses the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), perceived stress and insecurity of Palestinian young adults in the West Bank. We surveyed 398 university students from Nablus (mean age = 20.1) using the SF-36 to measure HRQoL, the PSS-4 to assess stress and a context-specific insecu…
Conflict and well-being
Achieving Food Security Through Localisation, Not Aid
Food aid is a common response to the food insecurity brought by conflict and inadequate development. Yet the very well-intentioned actions that are meant to stave off immediate humanitarian crises may, in the long-term, serve as tools that promote dependence, decrease the likelihood of sustainable development, and make peace less possible. In this article, I examine food insecurity and food aid in the conflict-affected Palestinian territories. I …
Security or Segregation? The Palestinians, the Wall, and Peace
Stark in appearance, the wall contrasts with the surrounding green of olive and fig trees, prickly pear cacti, and the verdant lawns of the houses in the settlements: gray slabs of concrete in some
Equality through Innovation
Technological innovation has served as a useful catalyst for development goals across sectors, from agriculture to education. Various forms of health information technology (HIT), such as mobile health and telemedicine, have been used globally to support health care delivery systems. Forms of HIT, developed primarily by men in rich countries, are touted to support all patients and providers. However, while women perform most global health deliver…
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East
Assessing gender responsiveness of Covid-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies
Despite overwhelming evidence about the importance of intentionally embedding gender considerations into the COVID-19 planning and response, none of the plans reviewed in this study were classified as 'gender transformative.' We use these results to make specific recommendations for how infectious disease control efforts, for COVID-19 and beyond, can better integrate gender considerations in humanitarian settings, and particularly those affected …
Palestinian Dependence on External Health Services
Through multiple mechanisms, armed conflict degrades and destroys health systems, leaving significant gaps in care delivery that lead to worse health outcomes. Civilian populations are often left at the mercy of multiple stakeholders to attain health care. Often, they are unable to meet their needs within their own territory. This has been documented as the case throughout the occupied Palestinian territories for decades. In this paper, I argue t…
Because its power remains naturalized
Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and i…
Problem-Solving Court Staff Preferences for Educational Videos about Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Problem-solving courts use an interdisciplinary approach with treatment mandates, hearings, and monitoring to rehabilitate individuals arrested for drug-related crimes or lost custody of children due to drug use. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are the standard of care for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), but few problem-solving court clients with OUD are referred to MOUD. Previous studies found court staff often harbor misconceptio…
Assessing the Universality of Universal Health Coverage
Universal health coverage (UHC) is founded on a commitment to health coverage for all. Israel claims to have achieved UHC, while public health services in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are left primarily to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In this article, we assess Israel’s responsibility for health in the OPT by examining Israel’s sovereignty over the OPT. We argue that Israel legally and practically remains the sole sovereign entit…
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza
Impact of Covid-19 on Florida family dependency drug courts
Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023
After attacks in Israel led by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has featured an unprecedented scale of destruction. This has included the use of highly destructive weapons in a densely populated area. Mark-84 bombs (M-84s) are 2000 lb air-dropped explosive munitions with the capacity to damage infrastructure and kill or cause severe injury hundreds of meters away. This study exam…
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health eq…
Nowhere and no one is safe’
Spatial statistical analysis suggests widespread damage to critical civilian infrastructure that should have been provided protection under IHL. These findings raise serious allegations about the violation of IHL, especially in light of Israeli officials' statements explicitly inciting violence and displacement and multiple widely reported acts of collective punishment
Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine
Refugee Health Under Protracted Structural Oppression
Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
For decades, the links between security and health, as well as securitisation and health, have been assessed in response to health emergencies (e.g. HIV/AIDS, SARS, H5N1, H1N1, Ebola, Zika) across various geographical contexts. The COVID-19 pandemic presented additional opportunities to evaluate this nexus. This paper analyses securitisation processes of COVID-19 within the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). We find that in addition to the e…
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Hospital functionality in the Gaza Strip
This study provides additional evidence that the Gaza Strip's hospital system was directly affected by the first year of the conflict, greatly impacting the ability to provide critical health services
Interrogating the role of sociopolitical determinants of health in Palestine
For decades, Palestinians have faced significant barriers to developing and accessing basic health services, leading to poor health outcomes. These issues are often characterized as mere 'humanitarian issues,' ignoring the broader sociopolitical context. This study aims to explore the discourse surrounding the structural and sociopolitical determinants shaping Palestinian health. We conducted in-depth interviews with experts ( N = 15) on Palestin…
Framing Gaza
A main feature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been the systematic destruction of the healthcare system. The Israeli military has methodically generated conditions that drive disease, disability, and death, while simultaneously dismantling the capability of the health system to respond. Despite a purported emphasis on issues such as health equity and social determinants of health, many influential medical bodies across the world have failed t…
Political science (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (10 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Palestine (7 works)