Dr Wesam Mansour

Lecturer

Dr. Wesam Mansour is a health policy and systems researcher with a focus on health system resilience, workforce capacity, gender equity, and health justice in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS). Her expertise also extends to capacity strengthening and community engagement and involvement, in addition to her background in clinical medicine, healthcare management, service delivery, external evaluation systems and quality improvement. She employs qualitative research methods and participatory action research approaches to strengthen health systems and workforce management in crisis-affected contexts.

At LSTM, Dr. Mansour is a Co-Investigator in major research consortia, including ReBUILD for Resilience and the new NIHR Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) Programme (REACT), where she leads research on health workforce, gender equity, governance, and health system strengthening. Her research has directly contributed to WHO Human Resources for Health policies, national workforce strategies, and local governance initiatives. She was also awarded the LSTM Director’s Catalyst Fund (DCF) in 2022, leading an independent study on workplace sexual harassment in the health sector in Lebanon.

Beyond research, Dr. Mansour actively engages in teaching, PhD supervision, and capacity strengthening in health policy and systems research. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She holds the role of Deputy Convenor for the Organisation & Management of Health Services module in the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme at LSTM, where she contributes to curriculum development and delivers research-led teaching on strategic planning and quality assurance.

Dr. Mansour also plays a key role as an Advisory Group Member of Health Systems Global (TWG FCAS) and serves as Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, shaping global health policy discourse.

Recent publications: 

    Selected publications

    • Mansour W, Theobald S, Fouad F, Than K, Baba A, Raven J. The urgent struggle for health justice in Gaza: A crisis of human rights and inequity. Editorial. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2024 Dec 11. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3882.

      Alkhaldi M, Asi Y, AlBada M, Mansour W. Rethinking and advancing the movement of resistance, activism, and advocacy in health in four central arenas of the Middle East Region. World Medical & Health Policy. 2024, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.633

      Raven J, Mansour W, Aikins M, Bulthuis S, Chikaphupha K, Dieleman M, et al. From PERFORM to PERFORM2Scale: lessons from scaling-up a health management strengthening intervention to support Universal Health Coverage in three African countries. Health Policy Plan. 2024 Sep 10;39(8):841-853. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czae063.

      Yamout R, Mansour W, Abou Saad M, Khalil J, Fouad F, Raven J. Refugee women in the informal health sector in Lebanon: Gendered experiences of close to community healthcare providers during the COVID-19 response. SSM - Health Systems. 2024;(3):100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmhs.2024.100013

      Mansour W. No health without peace: Health justice in armed conflict settings – a blog post. Health Systems Global TWGFCAS and ReBUILD for Resilience. June 2024. https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/health-justice-armed-conflict-blog/

      Kallon, L.H., Raven, J., Wurie, H.R. Mansour W. From policy to practice: a qualitive study exploring the role of community health workers during the COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1228 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10272-6

      Martineau, T., Mansour, W., Dieleman, M. et al. Using the integration of human resource management strategies at district level to improve workforce performance: analysis of workplan designs in three African countries. Hum Resour Health 21, 57 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00838-0

      Bulthuis S, Kok M, Onvlee O, O’Byrne T, Amon S, Namakula J, Chikaphupha K, Gerold J, Mansour W., Raven J., et al. How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023:23(35) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09034-1

      Raven J, Arjyal A, Baral S, Chand O, Hawkins K, Kallon L, Mansour W, Parajuli A, Than KK, Wurie H, et al. The Gendered Experience of Close to Community Providers during COVID-19 Response in Fragile Settings: A Multi-Country Analysis. Social Sciences. 2022.11:415. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11090415

      Ho L, Bertone M, Mansour W, et al. Health system resilience during COVID-19: understanding sexual and reproductive health service adaptation in North Kivu. Reproductive Health;2022,19:135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01443-5

      Martineau T, Ozano K, Raven J, Mansour W, Bay F, Nkhoma D, Badr E, Baral S, Regmi S, Caffrey M. Improving health workforce governance: the role of multistakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health. Hum Resour Health, 20, 47,2022. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00742-z

      Mansour W, Arjyal A, Hughes C, Gbaoh ET, Fouad MF, et al. Health systems resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice: implications for research, policy and practice. Confl Health. 16,7;(2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-022-00439-z

      Mansour WA, Elsayed O, Mansour W. Chapter 2: Strengthening Public Health Response to COVID-19 through Policy Learning and Policy Transfer. In book: Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch002 

      Elsayed O, Mansour W. Chapter 3: Digital Transformation and Health Systems Performance in Global Settings During COVID-19. In book: Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch003

      Raven J, Aikins M, Banda H, Bulthuis S, Chikaphupha K, Dieleman M, Huff S, Kok M, Mansour W, O’Byrne T, Onvlee O, Ssengooba F, Wyss K, Martineau T. Synthesis report. 2022. PERFORM2Scale. LSTM. Available at: https://www.perform2scale.org/synthesis-report

      Mansour W, Karemani A, Martineau T, Namakula J, Mubiri P, Ssengooba F, Raven J. Management of Human Resources for Health in Health Districts in Uganda: A Decision Space Analysis. Int J Health Plann Mgmt.2021;37(2):770-789. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3359 

      Mansour W, Boyd A, Walshe K. National accreditation programmes for hospitals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: case studies from Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2021;36(5):1500- 1520. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3178

      Mansour W and Chand O. How can we conduct disability-inclusive health system research? Blog post. March 2021. ReBUILD for Resilience. LSTM. Available at: https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/how-to-conduct-disability-inclusive-health-system-research/

      Mansour W, Boyd A, Walshe K. The development of hospital accreditation in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review, Health Policy and Planning,2020;35(6): 684–700, doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaa011

      Raven J, Mansour W, Murphy R and Martineau T. (2019). Interim progress report on scale-up processes. Briefing paper. Available on: https://www.perform2scale.org/our-findings-so-far-october-2019

      Tantawy A, Von Mackensen S, El-Laboudy M, Labib J, Moftah F, El-Telbany M, Mansour W. Health-Related Quality of Life in Egyptian Children and Adolescents with Hemophilia A. 2011. Paediatric Haematology and Oncology; 28(3):222-9. doi.org/10.3109/08880018.2010.535116