Dr Marian Abouzeid is the Centre’s Associate Director, Network Engagement, where she works across a suite of humanitarian research, policy advocacy, and convening and engagement functions, 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.
As Senior Fellow, Abouzeid is spearheading development of a suite of diaspora humanitarian research networks for a number of crisis-affected settings globally, and is Co-Chair of Diaspora for Research: Lebanon. She is also driving 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.
Most recently she was Senior Research Fellow with the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, focused on humanitarian issues in armed conflict and humanitarian systems. She has served in a leadership capacity on several major international collaborative initiatives, including Project Director of the Regional and National Consultations Consortium on Humanitarian Research and Innovation, 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. She was also Anglophone Co-editor in Chief of the Humanitarian Leader.
Marian holds a masters and doctorate in public health and initial degrees in physiotherapy and medicine.
