Sameera Awawda

PhD
Assistant professor at ICPH and Economics Department
sawawda@birzeit.edu
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Latest Publications

  1. Awawda, S. (2021).Poverty dynamics in Palestine: Evidence using synthetic panels based on cross-sectional surveys, Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 20(3).
  2. Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M. & Ventelou, B. (2021). “Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal : quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement ?”. Revue internationale des études du développement - no 247 - 2021-3 - Parution 25.
  3. Abu-Zaineh, M., & Awawda, S. (2021). Assessing the Health and Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Palestine (No. hal-03225314).
  4. Abu-Zaineh, M., Awawda, S. & Ventelou, B. “Who bears the burden of Universal Health Coverage? An assessment of alternative financing policies using an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model”. 2020. Health Policy and Planning, 35(7): 867–877.
  5. Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M. & Ventelou, B. “Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal : quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement ?”. UNISSAHEL research program. 2020. ⟨hal-02877455⟩.
  6. Abu-Zaineh, M. & Awawda, S. “Assessing health systems’ capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary evidence from MENA countries”. AMSE Newsletter N° 11, 2020, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Marseille, France.
  7. Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M. & Ventelou, B. "The quest to expand the coverage of public health insurance in the occupied Palestinian territory: an assessment of feasibility and sustainability using a simulation modelling framework." The Lancet 393 (2019): S17.
  8. Awawda, S. & Abu-Zaineh, M. "Assessing the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Universal Health Coverage (UHC): A Dynamic Microsimulation-based Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Applied to Palestine".  FEM42-15. 2018.
  9. Abu-Rmeileh, N., Ghandour, R., Mataria, A., Awawda, S., Jabr, S. and O'Flaherty, M. “Time to act on diabetes mellitus prevention in the West Bank, oPt: Current and future direct cost of diabetes and its complications”. Obesity Medicine, 2017, 6, 18-22.
  10. Awawda, S. and Abu-Zaineh, M. “An Operationalizing Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Universal Health Coverage Reforms: First Test on an Archetype Developing Economy”. AMSE working paper, n°4. 2019 (submitted to International Journal of Health Planning and Management).