Dr Marian Abouzeid is the Centre’s Senior Fellow, Regional Humanitarian Research Initiatives. She is also Senior Research Fellow with the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Marian works in humanitarian research and advocacy, with a particular focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Pacific regions. Prior to a shift into this space, she gained extensive experience in public health across a diverse range of settings and contexts across Australia and internationally.
Her current work focuses on humanitarian issues in armed conflict and humanitarian research and innovation systems. She is spearheading a body of work around regional humanitarian research initiatives in the Asia Pacific. Additionally, she has an active research portfolio focused on humanitarian and development issues in the Middle East. Abouzeid is currently also Co-editor in Chief of the Humanitarian Leader.
Most recently she was Project Director of the Regional and National Consultations Consortium on Humanitarian Research and Innovation, for Elrha’s landmark Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE). Other recent engagements include serving as the inaugural Associate Project Lead of the Lancet – American University of Beirut Commission on Syria, founding Executive Director of the Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health during its foundational pre-launch phase, and Deputy Lead of the Global Humanitarian Mapping Consortium for Elrha’s Global Prioritisation Exercise. Marian holds a masters and doctorate in public health and initial degrees in physiotherapy and medicine.
