SALAM T ISMAEL
DIRECTOR
DOCTORS FOR IRAQ
IRAQ
Dr. Salam Ismael received is an Iraqi Medical Doctor graduated from
Baghdad Medical School in 2000. Started his carerr in orthopaedic
surgery then finished his master’s in public health from London School
of higene and tropical medicine in 2008. He has been awarded his
degree with titled thesis “The Impact of Physicians’ Migration on
the provision of Health Care in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion”.
After the invasion, Dr. Ismael founded, together with a few of
his colleagues, an Iraqi medical relief NGO called ‘Doctors for Iraq’. Doctors for Iraq is a neutral medical humanitarian organisation that
provide health services for people in need inside Iraq depending on the
medical and surgical skills of its volunteers. Since 2006 Dr Ismael is
the Director of this organisation.
Dr Ismael later engaged in International medical relief work with
international organizations such as the Red Crescent and ICRC in areas
of conflict and disaster zones such as Somalia , Lebanon and Haiti.
Working in conflict zones led him to document, publish and speak out publicly,
both nationally and internationally, about the health situation,
humanitarian assistance, together with human rights abuses and
breaches in medical neutrality in such sensitive environments of work,
particularly in Iraq .
Dr Ismael published several articles, organised many workshops on
health and humanitarian assistance and spoke in different international
arenas about right to health and medical neutrality breaches.
PARALLEL SESSION 6
The Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
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