" Omar Dewachi
About
Dr. Omar Dewachi is a Senior Fellow at IRIS. His research focuses on the social, medical, and environmental consequences of war and violence in Iraq and the wider Middle East. He is an associate professor of medical anthropology and global health at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Conflict Medicine Program at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Dewachi's ongoing project, "When Wounds Travel," combines almost two decades of ethnographic research with personal experiences in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Dr. Dewachi holds an MD from Baghdad University, an MPH from the American University of Beirut, and a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University. His book "Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq" (Stanford University Press, 2017), won the Society for Medical Anthropology’s 2019 New Millennium Book Award. His scholarship has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, media outlets and art platforms, including the Lancet, Global Public Health, Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, MEREP, Jadaliyya, and the Beirut Art Center’s Derivative.
