Title: Salvageable Lives: Pathogens, People and Politics in Lebanon's Financial Collapse
PhD Supervisor: Vinh-Kim Nguyen
PhD CO Supervisor: Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
Expected Completion Date: 2024
Anthony is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute. In his doctoral research, Anthony uses archives and ethnography to study how salvage practices are embedded in everyday life as people in Lebanon live through financial collapse. Anthony conducted multi-sited fieldwork among scientists repurposing pathogens in laboratories, communities responding to severe pharmaceutical shortages, and hospital infection control committees under measures of medical austerity. During his doctoral studies, Anthony has been involved as a doctoral researcher on two research projects. Between October 2018 and January 2021, Anthony worked with Dr Suerie Moon and Dr Gian Luca Burci at the Global Health Center, Geneva Graduate Institute, on a Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) funded research project studying the global governance of pathogen sharing and what constitutes fair and equitable benefit-sharing in everyday scientific practice. Since January 2021, Anthony has worked with Dr Louis-Patrick Haraoui (University of Sherbrooke, Canada) and Dr Hannah Landecker (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) on a New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF, Canada) funded project on the bio-history of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon. Between 2019 and 2021, Anthony coordinated the EASA Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Network.
2023. Abou Fayad, A., Rizk, A., El Sayed, S., Kaddoura, M., Jawad, N. K., Al-Attar, A., ... & Sater, Z. A. Antimicrobial resistance and the Iraq wars: armed conflict as an underinvestigated pathway with growing significance. BMJ Global Health, 7(Suppl 8), e010863.
2021. Nassereddine, G., Habli, S., Slama, S., Sen, K., Rizk, A., & Sibai, A. M. COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: the need for a syndemics approach to data reporting and healthcare delivery. BMJ global health, 6(6), e006189.
2021. Wehbe S., Fahme S.A., Rizk A., et al. COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa region: an urgent call for reliable, disaggregated and openly shared data. BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e005175.
2021. Sibai, A. M., Arawi, T., Al Faisal, W., Makhoul, J., Hussain, H. Y., Haddad, S., & Rizk, A. (2021). Ethics reporting practices in aging research from the Arab Region. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 40(1), 105-109.
2020. Rizk, A., Bezruki, A., Burci, G. L., Moon, S., Fallah, M., Sieka, J., & Paiva, E. “Everybody knows this needs to be done, but nobody really wants to do it”: Governing Pathogen- and Benefit-Sharing. Global Health Centre Working Papers Series. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Global Health Centre.
2020. Bezruki, A., Rizk, A., Burci, G. L., & Moon, S. (2020). Governing pathogen-and benefit-sharing. Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
2020. El Achi, N., Honein-Abouhaidar, G., Rizk, A., Kobeissi, E., Papamichail, A., Meagher, K., & Patel, P. (2020). Assessing the capacity for conflict and health research in Lebanon: a qualitative study. Conflict and health, 14(1), 1-18.
2019. El Achi, N., Papamichail, A., Rizk, A., Lindsay, H., Menassa, M., Abdul-Khalek, R. A., ... & Patel, P. A conceptual framework for capacity strengthening of health research in conflict: the case of the Middle East and North Africa region. Globalization and health, 15(1), 1-15.
2019. Sibai, A. M., Rizk, A., Coutts, A. P., Monzer, G., Daoud, A., Sullivan, R., & DeJong, J. (2019). North–South inequities in research collaboration in humanitarian and conflict contexts. The Lancet, 394(10209), 1597-1600.
2019. Phillimore, P., Sibai, A. M., Rizk, A., Maziak, W., Unal, B., Abu Rmeileh, N., & Zaman, S. (2019). Context-led capacity building in time of crisis: fostering non-communicable diseases (NCD) research skills in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa. Global health Action, 12(1), 1569838.
2017. Dewachi, O., Rizk, A., & Singh, N. V. (2017). (Dis) connectivities in wartime: The therapeutic geographies of Iraqi healthcare–seeking in Lebanon. Global Public Health, 1-10.
2017. Sibai, A. M., Rizk, A., Costanian, C., & Beard, J. R. (2017). Landscape of research on older adults’ health in the Arab region: Is it demography-driven or development-dependent?. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(4), 680-687.
2017. Sibai, A. M., Semaan, A., Tabbara, J., & Rizk, A. (2017). Ageing and health in the Arab region: Challenges, opportunities and the way forward. Population Horizons, 14(2), 73-84.
2015. Rizk A, Makarem G. (2015). “Masculinity-under-threat”: Sexual Rights Organizations and the Masculinist State in Lebanon. Civil Society Review 1:97-108.
2015. Rizk A, Zanhour N, Makarem G. (2015). Sexuality and Socialism in Lebanon. Al-Thawra Al-Daema Journal, Issue 6. (In Arabic)
2015. Rizk A, Kronfol NM, Moffatt S, Zaman S, Fares S, Sibai AM. (2015). A survey of knowledge-to-action pathways of aging policies and programs in the Arab region: the role of institutional arrangements. Implementation Science 10(1): 170. doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0360-8
Teaching Experience
Spring 2018. Teaching Assistant in Global Health and Social Medicine (Instructor: Dr Omar Dewachi), Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut
During his PhD studies, Anthony has been involved as a doctoral researcher in two research projects. Between October 2018 and January 2021, Anthony worked with Dr Suerie Moon and Dr Gian Luca Burci at the Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of Geneva, on a Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) funded research project studying the global governance of pathogen sharing and what constitutes fair and equitable benefit-sharing in everyday scientific practice. Since January 2021, Anthony works with Dr Louis-Patrick Haraoui (University of Sherbrooke, Canada) and Dr Hannah Landecker (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) on a New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF, Canada) funded project on the bio-history of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon.