Talking Heads – Malak El Kassir on challenging gender norms and the Working Women initiative

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In this Talking Heads video, Malak El Kassir, a Syrian Community Nurse at Ghras El Khayr clinic in Beqaa, Lebanon speaks challenging gender norms and the Working Women initiative. She talks about ReBUILD’s impacts on the health of the local community and, in particular, women’s role in local health leadership.

This video is also available in Arabic – see below.

Further information

Studies: Malak took part in the studies Close-to-community providers addressing gender norms and power dynamics: participatory action research in fragile and shock-prone settings and also Empowering refugee close-to-community healthcare providers through advocacy networks.

Webinar recording: Malak spoke on her lived experiences as a health worker, mother and refugee at the ReBUILD webinar, Voices from the frontlines: Community health workers in conflict-affected communities. Watch it here. 

Talking Heads videos: This is one of a series of interviews with members of the ReBUILD team and partners in which we talk about our work and its impact. Find the full list here.