Aida Hassan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

She is an interdisciplinary social scientist working across Global Health, International Studies and Sociology. Her main research focuses on the global politics of medical humanitarianism, including how humanitarian and healthcare delivery in conflicts are often contested by security and military logics of (inter-)state violence. Currently in her PhD research at Queen Mary University of London, she critically explores these dynamics in the entanglement of health, security and warfare (colloquially understood as the 'attacks on healthcare' phenomenon) during the armed conflicts in Syria and Yemen.

Aida is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

Research

• Postcolonial theory
• Structural violence
• Global health politics

Aida is currently supporting a Wellcome funded project: 'Environmentally Sustainable Health Research (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach', led by Dr Gabrielle Samuel and Dr Federica Lucivero (Ethox Centre, Oxford). This project explores the ethical, social, cultural and practical implications of green tools in health research in diverse geographical contexts.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 6SSHM005 Dissertation in Global Health & Social Medicine