Dr. Hibah Osman is a palliative care physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her work centers on advancing palliative care in Lebanon and the Middle East through advocacy, policy development, and capacity building.
Dr. Osman serves as a member of the Regional Expert Network on palliative care for the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO-EMRO) and is a board member of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC). She is also a member of the National Committee on Pain Control and Palliative Care in Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health and chairs its Subcommittee on Practice.
She is the founder and a board member of Balsam – Lebanese Center for Palliative Care, an NGO that offers home-based palliative care in Beirut, and the founding director of the Palliative and Supportive Care Program at the American University of Beirut Medical Center’s Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute, Lebanon’s first hospital-based palliative care program.
Her clinical and research interests focus on the cultural and contextual impact on healthcare experiences, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Osman is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she contributes to building the program in Global Palliative Care.