Thurayya Zreik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4219918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thurayya Zreik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thurayya |
| FAMILY NAME | Zreik |
| SIGNATURE | ZREIK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | War Child Holland, Verdun, Lebanon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5243-989X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Reframing involuntary treatment as a sentinel event
This approach may help align mental health services with CRPD principles, reduce involuntary treatment, and enhance accountability, legitimacy, and foster collaborative relationships between users and providers. It may also help overcome the current impasse around coercive practices by enabling the identification and analysis of the structural and cultural mechanisms that sustain them over time, thereby opening up new possibilities for their mana…
Pathways of service user participation in mental health decision-making in Lebanon
Inclusive participation of mental health service users is critical for effective decision-making and governance, yet remains underexplored in humanitarian settings. Lebanon, facing protracted crises and hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees, provides a unique case to examine pathways of service user participation in mental health decision-making. This qualitative study investigates barriers, facilitators, and power dynamics influencing service…
Research Co-production Within Humanitarian Health
Research co-production is recognized as important for humanitarian health actors, as part of the growing drive towards localizing and decolonizing aid. Despite recognition that co-production is challenging to implement, reflexive accounts of co-production efforts remain limited. In this paper, we critically examine the role of co-production within a multi-partner research collaboration in Lebanon involving multiple academic, civil society and gov…
Barriers and enablers to a coordinated MHPSS response in Lebanon
During humanitarian crises, under-resourced and overstretched health systems may not be able to fully meet mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) needs of affected populations, including refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities. Health system governance is vital to humanitarian health response, but there has been little research on this, particularly for MHPSS. We present a case study of a national coordination mechanis…
Power dynamics and participation within humanitarian coordination groups
The humanitarian sector has often been criticised for its hierarchical power dynamics. Such dynamics often centre the priorities of ‘international’ actors, thereby marginalising the knowledge and expertise of those closest to the setting and play out in various fora, including coordination mechanisms. While guidance emphasises the importance of supporting local systems and government structures rather than creating parallel humanitarian structure…
Always the Ideal? Exploring the Risks of Refugee Participation in Research
Researchers in humanitarian settings increasingly encourage refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to participate within broader research processes, beyond solely providing data. However, efforts to increase participation in research may be tokenistic, complicated by the challenges present in humanitarian settings. The assumption that more participation is always good has meant sometimes limited reflection occurs on the challenges assoc…
Health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations
Health system governance has been recognized as critical to strengthening healthcare responses in settings with conflict-affected populations. The aim of this review was to examine existing evidence on health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations globally. The specific objectives were (1) to describe the characteristics of the eligible studies; (2) to describe the principles of health system governance; (3) to examine e…
Collaborative Coding in Multi-National Teams
Within multi-national research collaborations, power dynamics often shape who is involved in which parts of the research process. The analysis phase of research has historically been framed as requiring expert perspective, excluding national or local researchers whose role is often limited to collecting data and transferring it to others to analyze. In this paper, we describe and reflect on the process of collaborative coding across a multi-natio…
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Health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations
Health system governance has been recognized as critical to strengthening healthcare responses in settings with conflict-affected populations. The aim of this review was to examine existing evidence on health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations globally. The specific objectives were (1) to describe the characteristics of the eligible studies; (2) to describe the principles of health system governance; (3) to examine e…
Collaborative Coding in Multi-National Teams
Within multi-national research collaborations, power dynamics often shape who is involved in which parts of the research process. The analysis phase of research has historically been framed as requiring expert perspective, excluding national or local researchers whose role is often limited to collecting data and transferring it to others to analyze. In this paper, we describe and reflect on the process of collaborative coding across a multi-natio…
Barriers and enablers to a coordinated MHPSS response in Lebanon
During humanitarian crises, under-resourced and overstretched health systems may not be able to fully meet mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) needs of affected populations, including refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities. Health system governance is vital to humanitarian health response, but there has been little research on this, particularly for MHPSS. We present a case study of a national coordination mechanis…
Power dynamics and participation within humanitarian coordination groups
The humanitarian sector has often been criticised for its hierarchical power dynamics. Such dynamics often centre the priorities of ‘international’ actors, thereby marginalising the knowledge and expertise of those closest to the setting and play out in various fora, including coordination mechanisms. While guidance emphasises the importance of supporting local systems and government structures rather than creating parallel humanitarian structure…
Always the Ideal? Exploring the Risks of Refugee Participation in Research
Researchers in humanitarian settings increasingly encourage refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to participate within broader research processes, beyond solely providing data. However, efforts to increase participation in research may be tokenistic, complicated by the challenges present in humanitarian settings. The assumption that more participation is always good has meant sometimes limited reflection occurs on the challenges assoc…
Pathways of service user participation in mental health decision-making in Lebanon
Inclusive participation of mental health service users is critical for effective decision-making and governance, yet remains underexplored in humanitarian settings. Lebanon, facing protracted crises and hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees, provides a unique case to examine pathways of service user participation in mental health decision-making. This qualitative study investigates barriers, facilitators, and power dynamics influencing service…
Research Co-production Within Humanitarian Health
Research co-production is recognized as important for humanitarian health actors, as part of the growing drive towards localizing and decolonizing aid. Despite recognition that co-production is challenging to implement, reflexive accounts of co-production efforts remain limited. In this paper, we critically examine the role of co-production within a multi-partner research collaboration in Lebanon involving multiple academic, civil society and gov…
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Reframing involuntary treatment as a sentinel event
This approach may help align mental health services with CRPD principles, reduce involuntary treatment, and enhance accountability, legitimacy, and foster collaborative relationships between users and providers. It may also help overcome the current impasse around coercive practices by enabling the identification and analysis of the structural and cultural mechanisms that sustain them over time, thereby opening up new possibilities for their mana…
Political science (4 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Global Health and Surgery (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 works)