The making of the film ‘Health Workers’
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In this short presentation, Rouham Yamout from American University of Beirut spoke about the production of Health Workers – a film with and about close-to-community female Syrian health workers in Beqaa Valley in Lebanon.
Watch the Health Workers film here.
The presentation was part of a session on how audio visual methods have been used in health systems research.
Further information
This video was produced as part of a study – Close-to-community providers addressing gender norms and power dynamics: participatory action research in fragile and shock-prone settings. There’s more on that study here and outputs relating to the work in Lebanon here:
- Case study: Empowering women in healthcare: A community-led initiative for resilience and integration
- Poster: Empowering Female Syrian Refugee Health Workers in Navigating Multiple Vulnerabilities – presented at Health Systems Global 2024
- Blog post: Interview with a member of Beqaa’s Working Women group
- Blog post: Women, mothers, wives, refugees, health workers, activists: the roles of close-to-community health workers in Lebanon
- Blog post: “Together we do!” Establishing a female CTC providers’ support group
- Blog post: Women in turmoil: empowerment as a solution to inequity