Syria Is Not Only Damascus
In February 2025, I travelled to Douma and South Ghouta, two areas in the same governorate that reflect very different lived realities. What I found there changed how I think about health recovery: systems built from assumptions, mothers serving as informal infrastructure, and why rebuilding Syria means planning below the averages.
What Brexit Did to Medicine Availability
The UK avoided the medicine-supply collapse many predicted after Brexit. But avoiding collapse is not the same as building resilience. I modelled thirteen years of prescribing data across four national datasets to find out what actually happened, and what any country managing medicine supply can learn from it.