Biography

Reham Al-Aghbari is a proud DAAD scholar with a master’s degree in Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. Currently, Reham is an External Projects Program Coordinator at Saint Andrew’s Refugee Services (StARS), Egypt. She works in developing the institutional capacity of refugee-led organizations in Egypt to derive quality services to the refugee community. Prior to working at StARS, Reham worked as a program coordinator at Generations for Peace in Jordan. Reham was inspired to know the relationship between health and conflict. She learned how to identify conflict in a community and how the quality of relationships (building acceptance, inclusion, and respect) plays a significant role in conflict transformation. In the public health sector, Reham has worked researching in the electronic health (eHealth) major and joined research programs at the University of Hamburg and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Germany. In her free time, Reham can be found playing football, going hiking, and crafting.