Samar Al-Hajj

Samar Al-Hajj is an assistant research professor on the faculty of health sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is the director of the NIH-funded MENA Program on Advanced Injury Research (MENA-PAIR) at AUB, aiming to strengthen injury research and generate evidence to raise awareness, transform attitudes, and reduce injuries in Lebanon and the Middle Eastern Region.

A Syrian refugee from Damascus, carries a child as she enters her tent, at the Majdal Anjar refugee camp in Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, on September 9, 2013.
Migration

For Syrian Refugees, Deadly Hazards Lurk in Camps

by Ali H. Mokdad, Samar Al-Hajj

Substandard living conditions leave Syrian refugees at a higher risk of injury than native Lebanese people

Vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway, in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, on March 9, 2021.
Urbanization

Injuries: A Leading Killer of Youth in Lebanon

by Samar Al-Hajj, Ali H. Mokdad

Traffic accidents are wreaking havoc on young lives, especially children who are refugees