Costs of War
Omar Dewachi
Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology, Rutgers University
Research Interests
Iraq, refugees, public health, displacement
Biography
In 2008, Omar Dewachi graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Dewachi has worked on Iraqi medical doctors, their role in the formation of the Iraqi state, migration to the UK and integration in the British National Health Service (NHS). Dewachi’s current research is on war injuries and patients seeking healthcare outside Iraq.