Rana Dajani

Jan 3, 2024 | devex.com | Anita Makri |Rana Dajani

The world is suffering from multiple challenges that are setting back our collective push to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030 as planned. Most significant today is the ongoing atrocities happening in Gaza. There’s no shortage of recommendations to jump-start progress. But one key ingredient is missing: robust measurement of impact.

Nov 21, 2023 | nature.com | Rana Dajani

CORRESPONDENCE 21 November 2023 Since the onset of the Israel–Hamas war last month, in which more than 10,000 Palestinian civilians have so far been killed, I have been trying to check on fellow Palestinian researchers in Gaza and the West Bank (see R. Dajani et al. Nature 602, 211; 2022). I was able to reach only one of them, who is in the West Bank, because Israel’s siege of Gaza has included cutting off communications.

Oct 24, 2023 | nature.com | Rana Dajani

Almost every country with a significant science base is home to researchers who have immigrated there. The reasons are many: from fleeing war or persecution to simply seeking better opportunities to pursue scientific work. My father, a Palestinian refugee, was one such researcher. After being expelled by force from Jerusalem to Lebanon in 1948, he moved to the United States in 1969 to complete his medical residency as an immunologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. I am one, too.