DrSamira Barbara Jabakhanji

Through a mix of in-person, hybrid and fully online learning formats, Samira has lectured on health equity, planetary health and sustainable healthcare across multidisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education programmes, and has contributed to the integration of planetary health in health curricula in Ireland, Germany and Thailand. 

From 2021 to 2023, Samira delivered the annual lecture 'Sustainability and sustainable quality improvement' at RCSI (MSc Quality & Safety Healthcare Management). From 2022 to 2025, she lectured quarterly on 'Social context and inequality in health and ill-health' at Heidelberg University, Germany (BSc Medicine), which included migrant health and planetary health topics. Additionally, from 2023 to 2025, Samira gave the 'Introduction to Planetary Health' at the annual Summer School Planetary Health (SOPHEA project, Würzburg University, Germany). In 2025, she lectured on 'Planetary Health: Emerging threats, challenges and opportunities' at Trinity College Dublin (MSc Health Policy and Management). Since 2025, she also teaches on 'Equity in implementation' and 'Measuring Equity in Popultion Health' in RCSI's MSc Population Health Leadership. 

In terms of teaching development, Samira has co-developed the CPD-accredited RCSI Online health professional course on Sustainable Healthcare, which is freely available in English and Spanish and has reached a large global audience of multidisciplinary health professionals since its commencement in 2024. Additionally, the course has served as a foundation for a student elective module (BSc Medicine) at RCSI.

She has contributed to the mandatory RCSI-wide Race Equality training programme, and she spent a week at Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand) where she conducted workshops at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference and in the university to co-create the university curriculum on planetary health.

Throughout her postgraduate training and research roles, Samira has co-supervised and examined undergraduate and postgraduate medical and health sciences students during their research placements and thesis projects, and she welcomes student requests for supervised research projects.