Bilal Irfan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6948133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilal Irfan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilal |
| FAMILY NAME | Irfan |
| SIGNATURE | IRFAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-5822-7528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Oncological services in Gaza amid genocide
Global health at risk because of organized disinformation
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Breaking ground
Since April 2023, Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war that has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century (1,2). Even prior to this war, Sudan suffered from a severe shortage of healthcare workers (HCWs) due to recurring hostilities, forced displacement, voluntary exit of skilled professionals outside of the country, and destruction of educational infrastructure-with the number of physicians, nurses, and other health…
Considering Homeomorphic Equivalency in Engaging Islamic and Global Bioethical Traditions
Teaching by humiliation
The August arrival of a new cohort of medical students is usually greeted with institutional optimism: fresh white coats, a surfeit of idealism, and curricular pledges to foster compassionate, life
Actualizing the right to health
The right to health is among the most widely endorsed promises in modern international law, yet it remains too often an ideal touted in textbooks and speeches rather than being treated as an obliga
Health perils in low-intensity armed conflict
Low-intensity armed conflict (LIC) occupies an uneasy space between formal declarations of war and military operations on the one hand, and routine policing on the other; yet its health consequence
Medical education in Gaza
Before October 2023, Gaza's medical education, offered by Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University, enrolled around 2500 students and played a vital role in training local physicians despite the blockade-related challenges. The ongoing military assault has since devastated both the educational and healthcare infrastructure. Medical schools and hospitals have been damaged, destroyed, or militarized, while students and faculty have faced disp…
Health violence begets health violence
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What are the drivers in the neglect of Sudan's war and humanitarian crisis? Reframing global disengagement
More than 2 years after fighting erupted between Sudan’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, the country’s humanitarian emergency has quietly become one of the gravest on the planet. Modelli
The limits of ethical models
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has created unprecedented challenges in paediatric trauma care, exposing the limitations of oft-championed traditional bioethical frameworks in conflict settings. This paper examines the ethical dilemmas faced by healthcare workers treating paediatric patients in Gaza amidst extreme resource scarcity, systemic violence, and infrastructural collapse. Using firsthand field observations and case studies, we ex…
Nameless in the ledger
International concern for forced displacement that public health commentators enumerate can benefit from continuing to turn its attention to South Asia which is an epicentre of refugee crises. From
Resisting the drums of war against Venezuela
This commentary was written before US forces invaded Venezuela and kidnapped the Venezuelan President on 3 January 2026Recent US political rhetoric, coupled with military strikes on small boats off
Afghan refugees in Pakistan
The recent intensification of Pakistan’s ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’, calling for the relocation of Afghan refugees from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, has cast a stark light on longstanding
Game over
This article interrogates the "sport-health ideology" that equates organized sport with population wellbeing, arguing that it conflates the proven benefits of routine physical activity with the distinct injury profiles, labor relations, and political functions of modern sport. Synthesizing scholarship from sociology, public health, and bioethics, we show how elite and commercialized sport institutionalizes a culture of risk linked to musculoskele…
Concerns Regarding Methodology and Interpretation in “Analysis of Scientific Publications on the Gaza‐Israeli Conflict”
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Who sits on the board
Paediatric medical evacuations from Gaza have been obstructed and are increasingly difficult
Towards the end of 2024, evacuating patients from Gaza for essential – and often lifesaving – medical and surgical care had become a near-impossible task. Since Moscatelli et al. shared their insig
Medical research ethics in active war and conflict zones
In the chaos of conflict zones like Gaza, medical research ethics faces unprecedented challenges (Bruno and Haar 2020; Chiumento et al. 2016; Sen, Hussain, and Al-Faisal 2016). The traditional pill
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Concerns Regarding Methodology and Interpretation in “Analysis of Scientific Publications on the Gaza‐Israeli Conflict”
The authors have nothing to report
Who sits on the board
Paediatric medical evacuations from Gaza have been obstructed and are increasingly difficult
Towards the end of 2024, evacuating patients from Gaza for essential – and often lifesaving – medical and surgical care had become a near-impossible task. Since Moscatelli et al. shared their insig
Medical research ethics in active war and conflict zones
In the chaos of conflict zones like Gaza, medical research ethics faces unprecedented challenges (Bruno and Haar 2020; Chiumento et al. 2016; Sen, Hussain, and Al-Faisal 2016). The traditional pill
Oncological services in Gaza amid genocide
Global health at risk because of organized disinformation
The instinct to test claims against observable reality underpins every public‐health advance, yet the social licence of fact itself is fraying. The Lancet Planetary Health recently warned that ‘the...
Breaking ground
Since April 2023, Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war that has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century (1,2). Even prior to this war, Sudan suffered from a severe shortage of healthcare workers (HCWs) due to recurring hostilities, forced displacement, voluntary exit of skilled professionals outside of the country, and destruction of educational infrastructure-with the number of physicians, nurses, and other health…
Considering Homeomorphic Equivalency in Engaging Islamic and Global Bioethical Traditions
Teaching by humiliation
The August arrival of a new cohort of medical students is usually greeted with institutional optimism: fresh white coats, a surfeit of idealism, and curricular pledges to foster compassionate, life
Actualizing the right to health
The right to health is among the most widely endorsed promises in modern international law, yet it remains too often an ideal touted in textbooks and speeches rather than being treated as an obliga
Health perils in low-intensity armed conflict
Low-intensity armed conflict (LIC) occupies an uneasy space between formal declarations of war and military operations on the one hand, and routine policing on the other; yet its health consequence
Medical education in Gaza
Before October 2023, Gaza's medical education, offered by Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University, enrolled around 2500 students and played a vital role in training local physicians despite the blockade-related challenges. The ongoing military assault has since devastated both the educational and healthcare infrastructure. Medical schools and hospitals have been damaged, destroyed, or militarized, while students and faculty have faced disp…
Health violence begets health violence
International humanitarian law (IHL) regards deliberate attacks on health-care personnel, facilities, and transports during armed conflict as grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and their Addi
What are the drivers in the neglect of Sudan's war and humanitarian crisis? Reframing global disengagement
More than 2 years after fighting erupted between Sudan’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, the country’s humanitarian emergency has quietly become one of the gravest on the planet. Modelli
The limits of ethical models
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has created unprecedented challenges in paediatric trauma care, exposing the limitations of oft-championed traditional bioethical frameworks in conflict settings. This paper examines the ethical dilemmas faced by healthcare workers treating paediatric patients in Gaza amidst extreme resource scarcity, systemic violence, and infrastructural collapse. Using firsthand field observations and case studies, we ex…
Nameless in the ledger
International concern for forced displacement that public health commentators enumerate can benefit from continuing to turn its attention to South Asia which is an epicentre of refugee crises. From
Resisting the drums of war against Venezuela
This commentary was written before US forces invaded Venezuela and kidnapped the Venezuelan President on 3 January 2026Recent US political rhetoric, coupled with military strikes on small boats off
Afghan refugees in Pakistan
The recent intensification of Pakistan’s ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’, calling for the relocation of Afghan refugees from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, has cast a stark light on longstanding
Game over
This article interrogates the "sport-health ideology" that equates organized sport with population wellbeing, arguing that it conflates the proven benefits of routine physical activity with the distinct injury profiles, labor relations, and political functions of modern sport. Synthesizing scholarship from sociology, public health, and bioethics, we show how elite and commercialized sport institutionalizes a culture of risk linked to musculoskele…
Health and Conflict Studies (12 works) · Government (linguistics) (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Disaster Response and Management (4 works) · Bioethics (3 works) · Global health (3 works) · Humanitarian aid (3 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Political science (3 works)