Mohamad Katoub

An expert in humanitarian response in conflict settings, with significant experience in humanitarian policy, human rights, consensus-building, and empowering civil society. With work focused in the Syrian and MENA regional contexts, and extensive knowledge and a vast network of humanitarian organizations, civil society, and survivors’ groups, I have a long experience in the mechanisms and structures of humanitarian responses and public health policies. Experience utilized in different areas, such as protecting humanitarian workers, ensuring humanitarian access, documenting attacks on health, and supporting survivor groups. Led advocacy campaigns that have significantly improved humanitarian access, notification and other risk mitigation mechanisms, and the protection of humanitarian workers, inspiring change and progress in the sector.

• Evaluation report on PAX education program in Syria, PAX, 2021
• Country Expert, Hala Systems, 2019-2023
• Evaluation of the communication capacity, policies and plans, TDA, 2019
• Advocacy consultant for TDA programs, TDA, 2021-2022
• Advocacy trainer, SAWA (Sheraa project), 2021
• Communication capacity building program, Baytna Syria, 2021
• Advocacy, community mobilization, and grassroots training for Alsharq Forum’s fellowship program, Alsharq Forum, 2021-2022
• Advocacy and strategic planning consultancy, Voices for Displaced Syrians Forum, 2021
• Advocacy and community mobilization trainer for civil society actors in Syria, Basmeh and Zaytooneh, 2021
• Advocacy training, Mussawat for research and advocacy, 2022
• Research consultant, Women Now Foundation, 2023-2024

• Research Fellow, Syria Impacts Study, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
• Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• Member of the Advisory Group, Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in countries of conflict (RIAH)
• Project Director, SAMS on the joint research project: Ethical Challenge in Humanitarian Health in Situation of Extreme Violence
• Dentistry, Damascus University, 2002

• When it Comes to Humanitarian Aid, Syrians Must Play the Numbers Game, The New Humanitarian
• I helped Syrian children after the Ghouta chemical weapons attack. Five years on, it's time for these war crimes to be prosecuted, The Independent
• International failure in northwest Syria: humanitarian health catastrophe demands action, The Lancet
• How The Un Failed to Save Syria's Hospitals, Aljumhuriya
• Chemical weapons in Syria: No more red lines, Aljumhuriya
• A Medical Outbreak in Ghouta, The Syria Campaign diary
• Syrian Lives Matter, Don’t they?, Foreign Policy
• WHO rewards the Syrian regime for its atrocities, Syria Untold
• UN cross-border aid hangs in the balance as politics and need collide, Syria Direct
• 9 years after the Ghouta chemical attack, witnesses and relatives of the victims continue on a long path towards justice, Syria Direct
• Border Shaking Earthquake Response, Aljumhuriya
• The catastrophic response to the earthquake in Syria: the need for corrective actions and accountability, The Lancet
• UN offices in rebel-held Syria can’t be tool for Assad regime, Devex
• هل يمكن إنقاذ إغاثة السوريين عبر الحدود, الجمهورية
• The failure of the emergency humanitarian response, Syria Untold
• Briefing to the UNSC on the usage of chemical weapons in Syria
• UN Crossborder Aid to Syria Requires More Than Consent, Refugees International
• Life After Ghouta: Memory and Persistence in the Lives of Survivors, Aljumhuriya

• Course in minimum standards for humanitarian response to reproductive health, UNFPA, 2015
• TOT course in clinical care for survivors of Gender Based Violence, UNFPA, 2015
• TOT course in humanitarian response for Gender-Based Violence, IRC, 2015
• Monitoring Gender-Based Violence in conflict zone areas, UNOHCHR, 11/2015
• Workshop on management of humanitarian aid in armed conflicts, UNOCHA
• A Civil Society leadership course, Middle East Institute
• Course in management of the relations between local councils and local NGOs, 2014

• Steering Committee Member, Syrian Public Health Network SPHN, 07/01/23, Present
• Board Member, Don’t Suffocate The Truth Campaign, 01/01/23, Present