Qusai Khraisha is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs developing research methodologies to improve the study of refugee families and make research more inclusive. He holds an MSc in war and psychiatry from King’s College London and is completing his PhD in psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

His PhD research examined how government policies affect the daily interactions between refugee caregivers and their children. He also led the only longitudinal video observational study of refugee family interactions to date, and developed the first observational tool that measures recorded refugee parent-child interactions without needing to understand the participants’ language. 

Khraisha has received the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarship and the Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). His research has been published in journals that include Social Science & Medicine, Comprehensive Psychiatry, and Research Synthesis Methods. 

Previously, he worked with War Child and served with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has advised and consulted for staff working with UNICEF, WFP, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières, and International Medical Corps, among others.

At Yale, he is scaling his research by using machine learning to automate the analysis of refugee family interaction videos and building on his research into AI-assisted systematic reviews to improve research synthesis efficiency and reduce cost barriers. He is also exploring the use of artificial neural networks in assessing the relationship between climate change and displacement