MEMBERSHIPS
• International Network for Child Family Centred Care (2020)
• International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) 2018
• International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) 2017
• International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)
PROJECTS
• Children’s Palliative Care Webinar Series ICPCN (2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPvFeItbQIt=4682s • Member in the ICPCN’s paediatric palliative care core group for the work to develop implementation guidance/best practice for the management of chronic pain in children. (2021). (in progress)
• Guideline development group meeting: Chronic pain in children. World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/guidelines/biographies-chronic-pain-in-children-23-dec.pdf • Development of an Audit Protocol and tools for determining the quality of clinical learning environments for healthcare students/University of Nottingham.
• Collaborator in a project entitled Rights based standards for children having a clinical procedure”. With Professor Lucy Bray, Professor of Child Health Literacy, Edge Hill University. Professor Bernie Carter, Professor of Children’s Nursing, Edge Hill University. To identify internationally agreed evidence-based and child’s rights-based standards for children undergoing procedures in clinical care.
- Guest editor in Frontier in Psychiatry Journal https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry
Special topic entitled : Psychological Distress in Healthy, Vulnerable, and Diseased Groups: Neurobiological and Psychosocial Bases, Detection Methods, and Creative Management Strategies”. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/32295/psychological-distress-in-healthy-vulnerable-and-diseased-groups-neurobiological-and-psychosocial-ba
- Reviewer at Palliative Medicine Journal starting from 2021
- Reviewer at BMJ Open Journal starting from 2020
- Reviewer at Palliative Care and Social Practice journal starting from 2020
- Reviewer at Journal of Child Health Care starting from 2018
- Reviewer at Quality of Life Research Journal starting from 2019
- Reviewer at Sage Open Nursing Journal starting from 2020
- Lead Guest Editor for special issue (Palliative Care in Paediatrics) in Palliative Care and Social Practice journal (2018-2019)
- Reviewer at Palliative and Supportive care journal
- Reviewer at Supportive Care in Cancer Journal
- Reviewer at Malaysian Journal of Medicine Health Sciences
- Reviewer at Journal of Pediatric Nursing starting from 2020
- Reviewer at Journal Acta Pediatrica starting from 2020
- Reviewer at Journal Clinical nursing Research starting from 2020
- Reviewer at Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care.
- Reviewer at Child Psychiatry Human Development
- Reviewer at Journal of Religion and Health
HONORS and AWARDS
- Recipient of the Highly Recommended Designation for the 2022 Pittu Laungnai Award for the paper: Palestinian mothers’ home-safety practices for preventing injuries to their young children: multiple case study approach. the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. Taylor Francis
- Best Poster Award (2021) at Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance conference. Advanced Technology in Nursing Education: A multiple case study approach from Palestine.
- Best Poster Award (2018) _ The need for sustaining hope during communication of unfavourable news in the care of children with palliative care needs In: The 3rd ICPCN (International Children Palliative Care Network) Conference: „Inspiration, Innovation, and Integration’. Durban. South Africa.
- D Scholarship. 2013. Philadelphia University － University of Nottingham, UK
- D Scholarship 2013 Al _ Zaytoona University － University of Nottingham, UK