Sameera Awawda

- Assistant professor of economics, Birzeit University, Palestine.
- Assistant coordinator-responsible for Communications of the AHEAD network.

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Sameera Awawda is assistant professor of economics at the economics department and the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH), Birzeit University, Palestine. She is the director of the Master program of Applied Statistics and Data Science. Her research interests include economics evaluation, microeconometrics, microsimulation, and economics of inequality and wellbeing. She acts as a assistant coordinator for the AHEAD Research Network. Dr. Awawda holds a PhD degree in Economics from Aix-Marseille University. She is a member the steering committee of the AHEAD Network (responsible for communications of the network).

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Awawda, S., Chalak, A., Khader, Y., Mostafa, A., Abla, R., Nakkash, R., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2022). Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment. BMJ open, 12(7), e058495
Farran, D., Salloum, R. G., El Jardali, F., Abla, R., Rmeileh, N. A., Al Sheyab, N., … & Nakkash, R. (2024). From knowledge production to knowledge translation: Waterpipe tobacco control research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 10.
Bteddini, D., Nakkash, R. T., Chalak, A., Jawad, M., Khader, Y., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., … & Salloum, R. G. (2024). Economic research in waterpipe tobacco smoking: reflections on data, demand, taxes, equity and health modelling.
Jawad, M., Awawda, S., Abla, R., Chalak, A., Khader, Y. S., Nakkash, R. T., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2024). Impact of waterpipe tobacco taxation on consumption, government revenue and premature deaths averted in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: a simulation study. Tobacco Control, 33(e1), e85-e90.
Abu-Zaineh, M., & Awawda, S. (2022). Attainment of universal health coverage in the occupied Palestinian territory assessed by a general equilibrium approach: is informality an irreversible hurdle for universality?. The Lancet, 399, S24.
Awawda, S., Ventelou, B., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2021). Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal: quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement?. Revue internationale des études du développement, (3), 37-60.
Abu-Zaineh, M., Awawda, S. & Ventelou, B. (2020). Who bears the burden of Universal Health Coverage? An assessment of alternative financing policies using an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model. Health Policy and Planning, 35(7): 867–877.
Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M., & Ventelou, B. (2019). 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, S17.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Awawda, S., Chalak, A., Khader, Y., Mostafa, A., Abla, R., Nakkash, R., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2022). Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment. BMJ open, 12(7), e058495

Farran, D., Salloum, R. G., El Jardali, F., Abla, R., Rmeileh, N. A., Al Sheyab, N., … & Nakkash, R. (2024). From knowledge production to knowledge translation: Waterpipe tobacco control research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 10.

Bteddini, D., Nakkash, R. T., Chalak, A., Jawad, M., Khader, Y., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., … & Salloum, R. G. (2024). Economic research in waterpipe tobacco smoking: reflections on data, demand, taxes, equity and health modelling.

Jawad, M., Awawda, S., Abla, R., Chalak, A., Khader, Y. S., Nakkash, R. T., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2024). Impact of waterpipe tobacco taxation on consumption, government revenue and premature deaths averted in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: a simulation study. Tobacco Control, 33(e1), e85-e90.

Abu-Zaineh, M., & Awawda, S. (2022). Attainment of universal health coverage in the occupied Palestinian territory assessed by a general equilibrium approach: is informality an irreversible hurdle for universality?. The Lancet, 399, S24.

Awawda, S., Ventelou, B., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2021). Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal: quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement?. Revue internationale des études du développement, (3), 37-60.

Abu-Zaineh, M., Awawda, S. & Ventelou, B. (2020). Who bears the burden of Universal Health Coverage? An assessment of alternative financing policies using an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model. Health Policy and Planning, 35(7): 867–877.

Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M., & Ventelou, B. (2019). 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, S17.

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