Saja Abusulttan

Saja Abusulttan

From September 2022-2023, Saja Abusulttan worked as an intern on the research project 'Organs as a Gateway to Europe', where she conducted a scoping review on kidney sale in a migration context. From September 2023 until August 2024 she worked as a research assistant on the (Dis)Incentives project.

In 2025 she will begin her PhD trajectory at Erasmus MC's Organ Trafficking Research Group on "Migration, Organ Trade and Transplantation: exploring the health-related harms and needs of people who sell their kidneys and of patients suffering from end-stage-renal-disease in a migration context".

She obtained her first Master's Degree in Dental Public Health from the University of Sheffield in the UK and her Bachelor Degree in Dentistry from Al-Azhar University in Palestine. She completed her second Master's in Global Health at the University of Maastricht (UM) in 2023. She wrote her master's thesis on mental health care and needs among female refugees and asylum seekers living in Dutch refugee camps.

Her personal background as a refugee with double displacement and her newly obtained knowledge from her first master have motivated her to follow her second master and research on global health issues in migration context. She is also a member in the Diversity, Decolonization, and Belonging Committee of Global Health at UM. During her second Master's studies, she was selected for the PREMIUM Excellence Program at UM where she worked on the Student Service Centre's Refugee Project: ELPEEDA.

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Papers

  • Müller-Funk, L., Abusulttan, S., Kabbani, M., Karabajakian, I., Omran, L., Karam, Y. 2023. “Chapter 3: The Qualitative Data. Version 1.0.” Methodological Handbook SYREALITY. The SYREALITY Methodological Handbook_Chapter 3_V1 (wordpress.com)
  • Abusulttan, S., (2022). Mental health perceptiveness by refugees/healthcare providers. Learning Symposium Students Abstracts. Global Health Learning Symposium (April 18-29, 2022 ), The University of Maastricht (UM). Symposium Paper and Presentation. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/meta/418012/learning-symposium. An update about this ongoing research project can be found here.
  • Abusulttan, S., (2020). Assessing social support types and their frequencies in an online support group for dentally anxious individuals. The dissertation is accessible at here.
  • Abusulttan, S., (2020). Public Health and its connection to Social Justice. Available here.