Webinar: Launch of the Website and Recent Research Findings

In this webinar, broadcast on 26th June 2025, we introduced our newly launched website and shared the latest findings from the BIOPATH study – a large longitudinal study of Syrian refugee children living in informal settlements in Lebanon.

This included the presentation of three publications:

• A recent review on best practices for supporting children’s mental health in refugee settings presented by Professor Michael Pluess.
  • Pluess, M., Brown, F. L., & Panter-Brick, C. (2025). Supporting the mental health of forcibly displaced children. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-18

• Emerging evidence on how the trait of environmental sensitivity can inform our understanding of mental health among forcibly displaced children presented by Dr Andrew May.
  • May, A., Smeeth, D., McEwen, F., Karam, E., & Pluess, M. Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian Refugee Children. Nat Rev Psychol (2025)

• Novel insights into the impact of father separation presented by Dr Hend Eltanamly.
  • Eltanamly, H., May, A., McEwen, F., Karam, E., & Pluess, M. (2024). Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children. Attachment & Human Development, 1–21

You can access the slides from the webinar here and watch the recording of the webinar below: