Dana Naamani, MD, MPH

Dana Naamani, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician and Global Emergency Medicine Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Originally from Lebanon, she earned her medical degree from the American University of Beirut before pursuing a Master of Public Health in Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a concentration in Humanitarian Studies, Ethics, and Human Rights. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Duke University Hospital.

Her academic work focuses on strengthening health systems and advancing disaster preparedness in low-resource and humanitarian settings, with a commitment to cost-effective, equitable and context-appropriate emergency care. She has experience with health system strengthening, capacity building, and humanitarian response evaluation in Lebanon, the Sahel region, and India, and a particular interest in the Middle East and North Africa region.