Public Health & Social Safety

First responders search the ruins of a collapsed building at night.

Three Years After the Beirut Explosion: Where Does Lebanon’s Disaster Management Stand?

Yara El Murr

A composite of a senior woman protesting during the October 2019 uprising in the foreground against an old Mar Mkhayel barber shop in the background.

Indefinitely Deferred: Dignified Retirement Inaccessible to Most

Layla Yammine

Two staff members work at their desks.

طلاب أم عمال؟ طلاب الطب في الجامعة اللبنانية على خط المواجهة في نظام صحي متداعٍ

Yara El Murr

Layla Yammine

A composite image of different National Social Security Fund (NSSF) offices.

The Full Story Behind the Looming Collapse of the National Social Security Fund

Karim Merhej

Kareem Chehayeb

Image overlay of a shopper carrying grocery bags over a deserted city street at night. Beirut, Lebanon. 2021. (The Public Source)

“We Didn’t Even Try”: How Lebanon's Chaotic COVID-19 Strategy Let Thousands Die

Yara El Murr

A volunteer health worker disinfects a building in Ras Beirut. Beirut, Lebanon. March 20, 2020. (Hussein Baydoun/The Public Source)

Too Little Too Late: A Timeline of Lebanon’s Response to COVID-19

Hussein Mehdy

A black and white photograph showing two children fettered to a radiator at the psychiatric hospital of Deir El-Salib in Deir El-Qamar, Lebanon.

(Im)Possibilities of Healing Within the Mental Health System

Fátima Fouad el-Samman

Healthcare workers take a break outside Rafik Hariri University Hospital. Beirut, Lebanon. April 17, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Costly and Unsustainable: Where Lebanon’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Went Wrong

Yara El Murr