Dr Sabah Boufkhed is currently a Lecturer in Global Health at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care and Rehabilitation.

Sabah is an interdisciplinary global health researcher committed to social justice. Her research topics include preparedness and response to public health emergencies, labour exploitation and migrant workers’ health, and global palliative care.  In particular, Sabah supports a human-centred and social determinant of health approach to improve preparedness and response to public health emergencies.

She is currently a co-investigator on the T-AP project “Who Cares? Rebuilding Care in a Post-Pandemic World”, which is a 6-country consortium (Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, UK, USA) funded by the UKRI-ESRC for the UK part. Sabah and her colleague at UCL-IRDR's Centre for Gender and Disasters leads on an innovative mixed-methods study on care workers’ labour conditions and exploitation and their impact on health during the pandemic in six countries in Europe and the Americas.

Sabah is actively engaged outside of Academia. She co-founded organisations aiming at empowering and supporting women and ‘minorities’ in science and academia, is a Trustee for an NGO in Global Health and Development and a migration expert for an international development think-tank.

Main research interests include:
- preparedness and response to (public health) emergencies
- labour exploitation and migrant workers' health
- palliative care in conflict-affected settings

Expertise in mixed-methods and interdisciplinary research; quantitative and qualitative participatory methods (low- to high-income countries) and implementation science.