Dr. Fawzia Gibson-Fall is a Research Fellow in global health security at the Centre for Conflict and Health Research.

Her research explores the role of security actors in global health, issues of trust, misinformation, and disinformation, as well as conflict and health. Fawzia brings extensive networks within local communities, humanitarian, defence, global health, and global health security regional, and international organisations. Her first book entitled, ‘Health Warriors, the Global Politics of Military Health in Africa,’ is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press and builds on her doctoral research at Queen Mary University of London. Fawzia is currently developing research collaborations and health communication projects with colleagues at King’s, including ‘One Health’ participatory disease surveillance and health security in the Arctic region. She holds a research fellowship at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University in Toronto/Canada.

Fawzia has a solid track record as a global health educator: she was a Lecturer in Global Health at University College London (UCL) and a Teaching Fellow at the King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships where she led postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Conflict & Health, Global Burden of Disease, Health Systems, Health Policy, and Child Health. She co-developed and delivered research capacity-building workshops as part of King’s health partnerships in Sierra Leone and Somaliland and ran a global health conference cycle at the Royal Society of Medicine.