Why a global Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria​?

The ​Syria conflict has:

• caused profound loss of life, suffering, destroying the health system and social fabric
  
• become a grave regional issue but also ​a global issue directly impacting many countries ​
  
• exposed inter-related global crises in governance, health and aid. Addressing these crises needs global analysis, collaboration and solutions
  
  

At a time when there is:

• weak evidence base on the health impacts and approaches, hence​ need for more research and critical scholarship
  
• weak voice of academia and science, hence need to mobilize the public health and medical community​​
  

Aim and objectives

​The Commission's overall aim is to produce the best possible science in relation to health and Syrian crisis and mobilize global action to strengthen the response to the crisis with a particular focus on health. 

More on the Objectives  

The Lancet - AUB collaboration

In launching the Commission, The Lancet and the American University of Beirut (AUB), and particularly its Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), build on their prior and ongoing collaborations including the seminal Lancet series on Health in the Arab world: A view from within, published in January 2014. 

This is the first time an AUB faculty hosts and leads a Lancet Commission.

More on the Host institution​ (FHS/AUB) and its collaboration with the Lancet.      

See also

• The Lancet's webpage​ dedicated to the Commission on Syria