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Training the Middle East’s Future Health-Care Professionals

The Middle East’s public-health challenges today are enormous, and it has too few clinicians to address them. As the region continues to grow, its stability and prosperity will depend on countries' ability to revamp health-care education to attract more students from the region and foster innovation.

BOSTON – The Middle East’s public-health challenges are enormous, especially when one accounts for the region’s transient population of refugees and guest workers. The refugee population alone now numbers in the millions, and is straining health-care systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey nearly to the breaking point.

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