Rita Giacaman, PharmD, MPh

Professor
Community and Public Health
Research and Program Coordinator
Institute of Community and Public Health
Birzeit University
Palestine
Email: rita@birzeit.edu, giacaman@alquds.net


Educational Background:
Doctorate in Clinical Pharmacy, 1977, San Francisco Medical Centre, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
MPh, 1985, Sociology/Social Policy focus on health and women, University of Essex, Colchester, England.


Research Interests:
Psycho-social /mental health system building in war like conditions, social epidemiology, and women's health.


Selected Recent Publications:
Giacaman, R., Abu-Rmeileh, N., Husseini, A., Saab, H., & Boyce, W. (2007). Humiliation: The invisible consequence of war for Palestinian youth. Public Health, 121, 563-571.

Giacaman, R., Abu-Rmeileh, N., Mataria, A., & Wick, L. (2008). Palestinian women's pregnancy intentions; analysis and critique of the DHS 2004. Health Policy, 85, 83-93.

Fujiya, R., Jimba, M., Giacaman, R., Nakahara, S., Ichikawa, M., & Wakai, S. (2007). The influence of economics on the location of birth among Palestinian women in Bethlehem during the second Palestinian uprising. Tropical Doctor, 37, 13-18.

Giacaman, R., Abu-Rmeileh, N., & Wick, L. (2007). The limitations on choice: Palestinian women's childbirth location, dissatisfaction with the place of birth and determinants. The European Journal of Public Health, 17(1), 86-91.

Giacaman, R., Shannon, H., Saab, H., Arya, N., & Boyce, W. (2007). Individual and collective exposure to political violence: Palestinian adolescents coping with trauma. European Journal of Public Health, 17(4), 361-368.

Giacaman, R., Mataria, A., NGUYEN-GILLHAM, V., ABU SAFIEH, R., & STEFANINI, A. (2006). Quality of life in the Palestinian context: An inquiry in war-like conditions. Health Policy, 81(1), 68-84.

Mataria, A., Giacaman, R., Khatib, R., & Moatti, J. (2006). Impoverishment and patients' "willingness" and "ability" to pay to improve the quality of delivered care in Palestine: An assessment using the contingent valuation method. Health Policy, 75(3), 312-328.

Giacaman, R. (2005). Coping with conflict. editorial. Education for Health, 18(1), 2-4.

Giacaman, R., Wick, L., Abdul-Rahim, H., & Wick, L. (2005). The politics of childbirth in the context of conflict: Policies or de facto practices? Health Policy, 72, 129-139.

Wick, L., Mikki, N., Giacaman, R., & Abdul-Rahim, H. (2005). Childbirth in Palestine. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 89, 174-178.

Giacaman, R., Abdul-Rahim, H., & Wick, L. (2003). Health sector reform in the occupied palestinian territories (OPT): Targeting the forest or the trees?  Health Policy and Planning, 18(1), 59-67.

Giacaman, R., & Halileh, S. (2003). Maintaining health education in conflict. The Lancet, 359, 1579-1580.

Giacaman, R., Jad, I., & Johnson, P. (2001). Transit citizens: Gender and citizenship in the Palestinian transition to statehood. In P. Johnson (Ed.), Gender and citizenship in the middle east.  Syracuse University Press.