Osama Tanous
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Osama Tanous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Osama |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanous |
| SIGNATURE | TANOUS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5484-0780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meningitis outbreak in Gaza
BOX The genocide in Gaza has resulted in conditions that foster detrimental public health conditions leading to infectious disease outbreaks
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…
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Who is the subject of trauma? An interdisciplinary scoping review of trauma and selfhood in the Arab region
The Arab Region accounts for most of the world’s refugees. Despite being dispersed across the globe, most of these refugees are internally displaced within the region. A growing body of research argues that Western biomedical frameworks for conceptualizing, diagnosing, and treating trauma may not be suitable for non-Western and trauma caused by political violence inflicted on entire populations over time. The cultural and socio/political contexts…
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…
Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine
On Settler Colonialism, Environment, and Health
The Pima Indians of Arizona offer one of the clearest examples of the connections between settler-colonial environmental engineering and health.The community suffers from one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world, with over half of the adult population diagnosed with the disease. 1 In 1877, the U.S. Congress passed the Desert Land Act, allowing settlers to claim arid or semiarid "public" lands in exchange for irrigating and cultivating th…
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…
You, as of Now, Are Someone Else!”
This article challenges the dominant notion that the health of Palestinians inside the Green Line can be framed or understood as an issue of “minority health” characterized by a “gap” that needs bridging in order for health equity to be attained. It situates the health of Palestinians in Israel within the realm of Indigenous health and claims that the settler-colonial nature of the state of Israel, the minoritization of Palestinians, and their de…
Beyond Statelessness
Understanding the key determinants of health of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem is enhanced by analyzing Jerusalem as a settler colonial frontier. Structural racism, prolonged occupation, and settler colonialism shape the social and political determinants of health in Jerusalem, generating ill health and insecurity for Palestinian children who are rendered stateless in their own city. They are “unchilded” and, in fact, treated lik…
Covid-19 Fault Lines
This essay explores representations of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli health-care system during the Covid-19 pandemic and the dynamics that have played out in that system during the public health emergency from the perspective of a Palestinian physician. It argues that the health-care system, an essential pillar and infrastructural foundation of the settler-colonial project, is naively imagined as an apolitical, neutral sphere. As the site…
Covid-19 Fault Lines
This essay explores representations of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli health-care system during the Covid-19 pandemic and the dynamics that have played out in that system during the public health emergency from the perspective of a Palestinian physician. It argues that the health-care system, an essential pillar and infrastructural foundation of the settler-colonial project, is naively imagined as an apolitical, neutral sphere. As the site…
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
You, as of Now, Are Someone Else!”
This article challenges the dominant notion that the health of Palestinians inside the Green Line can be framed or understood as an issue of “minority health” characterized by a “gap” that needs bridging in order for health equity to be attained. It situates the health of Palestinians in Israel within the realm of Indigenous health and claims that the settler-colonial nature of the state of Israel, the minoritization of Palestinians, and their de…
Covid-19 Fault Lines
This essay explores representations of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli health-care system during the Covid-19 pandemic and the dynamics that have played out in that system during the public health emergency from the perspective of a Palestinian physician. It argues that the health-care system, an essential pillar and infrastructural foundation of the settler-colonial project, is naively imagined as an apolitical, neutral sphere. As the site…
Beyond Statelessness
Understanding the key determinants of health of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem is enhanced by analyzing Jerusalem as a settler colonial frontier. Structural racism, prolonged occupation, and settler colonialism shape the social and political determinants of health in Jerusalem, generating ill health and insecurity for Palestinian children who are rendered stateless in their own city. They are “unchilded” and, in fact, treated lik…
On Settler Colonialism, Environment, and Health
The Pima Indians of Arizona offer one of the clearest examples of the connections between settler-colonial environmental engineering and health.The community suffers from one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world, with over half of the adult population diagnosed with the disease. 1 In 1877, the U.S. Congress passed the Desert Land Act, allowing settlers to claim arid or semiarid "public" lands in exchange for irrigating and cultivating th…
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…
You, as of Now, Are Someone Else!”
This article challenges the dominant notion that the health of Palestinians inside the Green Line can be framed or understood as an issue of “minority health” characterized by a “gap” that needs bridging in order for health equity to be attained. It situates the health of Palestinians in Israel within the realm of Indigenous health and claims that the settler-colonial nature of the state of Israel, the minoritization of Palestinians, and their de…
Who is the subject of trauma? An interdisciplinary scoping review of trauma and selfhood in the Arab region
The Arab Region accounts for most of the world’s refugees. Despite being dispersed across the globe, most of these refugees are internally displaced within the region. A growing body of research argues that Western biomedical frameworks for conceptualizing, diagnosing, and treating trauma may not be suitable for non-Western and trauma caused by political violence inflicted on entire populations over time. The cultural and socio/political contexts…
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…
Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Meningitis outbreak in Gaza
BOX The genocide in Gaza has resulted in conditions that foster detrimental public health conditions leading to infectious disease outbreaks
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…
Health and Conflict Studies (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Health care (4 works)