Upcoming events and past event recordings
Sunday Sept 7, 2025, JVP HAC webinar:
Fast and Slow Genocide: Gaza and the West Bank
Speakers:
Aseel Aburass
Aseel Aburass is a humanitarian professional specializing in human rights and health in conflict settings. She currently serves as Director of the Occupied Palestinian Territory Department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel, where she leads legal and humanitarian interventions, documents violations, and advocates for systemic change and accountability..
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
North Carolina based orthopedic and hand surgeon with extensive experience as a medical volunteer in disaster and conflict zones. Dr. Perlmutter has completed over 40 missions to such places as Haiti, ground zero on 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Zimbabwe, and Ukraine. Working with the Palestinian American Medical Association in collaboration with the World Health Organization he has completed three missions in Gaza post October 7, 2023 and has witnessed firsthand the genocidal trauma inflicted on Palestinians, in particular children.
COSPONSORS:
American Friends Service Committee
USA Palestine Mental Health Network
People’s Health Movement
American Friends Service Committee
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Council
Just World Educational
Boston Worker’s Circle
HCW4P Salt Lake City
Science for the People
Sunday July 13, 2025, JVP HAC webinar: The Gazafication of the West Bank
The Gazafication of the West Bank
A report from Diana Buttu, Esq
Esteemed Human Rights Lawyer
Diana Buttu is a lawyer who previously served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and was part of the team that assisted in the successful litigation of the Wall before the International Court of Justice. She frequently comments on Palestine for international news media outlets such as CNN and BBC; is a political analyst for Al Jazeera International and is a regular contributor to The Middle East magazine. She maintains a law practice in Palestine, focusing on international human rights law.
COSPONSORS:
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
USA Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
Healthcare workers for Palestine Salt Lake City
Voices from the Holy Land
Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
promotional support:
IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
JVP Academic Advisory Council
VIDEO OF THE WEBINAR: https://youtu.be/60sqXT-AZZI
Sunday May 18, 2025, JVP HAC webinar: The Crisis of UNRWA in Gaza May 18, 2025
The Crisis of UNRWA in Gaza
A report from Sam Rose
Acting Director of UNRWA Affairs, Gaza
Watch the recording here.
Saturday, April 5, 2025, JVP HAC webinar: Crimes of Deprivation and the Rule of Law
The next JVP HAC webinar will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 9 am Pacific/ 12 pm Eastern:
Crimes of Deprivation and the Rule of Law
with Alexander Smith
Recording is available here
Saturday, March 8, 2025, JVP HAC Webinar: The Hospital as a Social Institution and Refuge during the Gaza Genocide
The Hospital as a Social Institution and Refuge during the Gaza Genocide
A conversation with Faris Giacaman
Palestine Editorial Director at Mondoweiss
Saturday March 8, 2025
9 am Pacific/ 12 pm Eastern
Watch the recording here.
Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern: JVP HAC Webinar: Public Health Crisis in Gaza - The Impact of Infectious Diseases
Public Health Crisis in Gaza: The Impact of Infectious Diseases
A conversation with Dr. Amir Mohareb, Director, Research Program on Humanitarian Action, Global Migration, and Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. View recording here or click the link to read more.
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern: JVP HAC Webinar: Towers of Ivory and Steel
Join us in a conversation with Maya Wind, author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, an account of Israeli academia’s complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern/8 pm Palestine: JVP HAC Webinar: Bridging Healthcare Gaps for Palestinian Refugees
In response to the severe healthcare gaps in the West Bank, 1for3 is focusing on healthcare challenges and community-driven solutions for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank. 1for3 has been working closely with local and international medical doctors to train community health workers from refugee camps.
Watch the webinar recording here.
Photo credit: Ruwaida Amer
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern: JVP HAC Webinar: Why the Gaza Conflict is now a Regional and soon to be Global Conflict
Watch the recording here.
Dr. Mazin Butros Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist and author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University where he teaches. Over the course of his career, he has published well over 150 scientific papers on topics ranging from cultural heritage to biodiversity. He has authored several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle.
Monday, September 16 at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT: JVP HAC Webinar - Health Care Under Fire in Gaza
JVP HAC Webinar - Health Care Under Fire in Gaza: Reports from the Ground
with Drs. Seema Jilani and Arham Ali
View the recording here.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024: 630 - 8 PM EDT: GAZA: Public Health in Crisis
Columbia University Health Sciences for Palestine (CUHSP) invites you to an online panel:
Gaza: Public Health in Crisis
with
Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Sarah Aly
Jess Ghannam
Jeffrey Sachs
Recording pending.
Saturday, August 24 at 10 am PDT/1 PM EDT: Understanding and Countering Anti-Palestinian Racism
JVP Health Advisory Council, USA Palestine Mental Health Network and The Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism invite you to on online workshop entitled:
Understanding and Countering Anti-Palestinian Racism. This event was not recorded. Stay tuned for future events featuring speakers from IUAPR.
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT. The destruction of healthcare in Gaza: A scientific assessment of settler-colonial violence
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 10 AM PDT/1 PM EDT. JVP HAC 23rd webinar featured:
Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim
Dr. A. Kayum Ahmed
Dennis Kunichoff
Dr. Bram Wispelwey
Watch the event recording here.
More recordings of past events
On this page you will find recordings of past events including JVP HAC webinars, events featuring JVP HAC steering committee members and other events on health in Palestine.