Seminars
July 2, Dr. Niveen Abu Rmeileh
Humanitarian crisis and social suffering in Gaza Strip: an initial analysis of aftermath of latest Israeli war
Dr. Abu Rmeileh, Associate Researcher, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, received her PhD in statistical Epidemiology from Glasgow University in 2004. Abu Rmeileh’s research interest is focused on epidemiology of chronic diseases and reproductive health.
June 29, Professor Kyriakos S. Markides
Health of Older Immigrants to Western Societies
Kyriakos S. Markides received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1976 from Louisiana State University. He is currently the Annie and John Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor of Aging and Director of the Division of Sociomedical Sciences Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
June 28, Tobacco Control Research Group
Marketing tobacco products to women and girls A seminar under the patronage of Mona Hrawi
On the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day, which falls on the 31st of May of each year, the AUB Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB-TCRG) and the Center for Research on Population and Health (CRPH), organized a seminar titled “Tobacco and Gender: Marketing Tobacco Products to Women” under the patronage of Mona Hrawi, president of the Chronic Care Center and former first lady, in collaboration with the National Program on Tobacco Control. The seminar was supported by over 40 Lebanese NGO's and organizations.
May 24, Professor Abdesslam Boutayeb
Health (in) equity in Arab countries
Abdesslam Boutayeb Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Oujda University in Morocco, is currently visiting CRPH as Visiting Regional Fellow. He has a PhD in Numerical Analysis from Brunel University in London (1990).
April 19, Professors Nisreen Salti and Sawsan Abdelrahim
Health Inequity in Lebanon
Presented in 2 sections as follows:
Nisreen Salti, Assistant Professor, Economics Department on
Health equity in Lebanon: a microeconomic analysisand
Sawsan Abdulrahim, Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Education Department on Income inequity and self-rated health: evidence from population-based data in Lebanon
March 29, Professor Kathryn Yount
The Concept of Global Health
Kathryn Yount is the URB scholar at the Epidemiology and Population Health Department at FHS. She is also Associate Professor at the Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Sociology, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University.
December 3, Professor Loulou Kobeissi
Community intervention (3): Medically Unexplained Vaginal Discharge and Common Mental Distress: An Association or not...?
Loulou Kobeissi is Assistant Research Professor in the Epidemiology and Population Health Department, and a CRPH affiliate.
November 29, Professor Jocelyn DeJong
Research Ideas for a Four Country Approach to Promoting Safety and Quality of Care in Childbirth: Proposal to Wellcome Trust
This seminar is a presentation of the multi-country research plans of the Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth research network covering Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.
October 26, Afamia Kaddour
Contesting Relative Deprivation: The Ras Beirut Well Being Survey
Afamia Kaddour is a graduate of FHS with a BSc in Environmental Health and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She also has a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is Research Associate at CRPH, currently directing the Ras Beirut Well Being Survey as part of her dissertation work at Paris XI in social epidemiology.
Workshops and Conferences
Closing Ceremony: Bedouin Health Project holds closing ceremony at AUB's Agricultural Research and Education Center in the Bekaa
Conference: Youth Working Group presents on Qaderoon at the IUHPE World Conference in Geneva. The 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion was held in Geneva from July 11 to 15. Over two thousand professionals and decision makers from all over the world attended this triennial event organized by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and Health Promotion Switzerland.
The RHWG held its 22nd annual meeting in Ain Es-Sukhna, Egypt from July 5 to 7, 2010.
TCRG Workshop ‘FCTC policies and their implementation in Arab Countries' co-hosted by The Tobacco Control Research Group and the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies (SCTS) in collaboration with the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) Eastern Mediterranean region and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) June 28 - July 1 in Van Dyck Hall
National Dissemination Meeting: CRPH in collaboration with the Outreach and Practice Unit held a national dissemination meeting entitled: Towards the Promotion of Youth and Women's Health in Lebanon: A Holistic Research Approach on May 18, 2010, at the Safir Heliopolitan Hotel, Raouche.
Tobacco Working Group: Dissemination of the results of the Qualitative Study Evaluating the Implementation of Smoke Free Policies in Public Places in Lebanon, Friday, November 20 at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel.
News
In the Press: Nahar ash-Shabab runs article on banning smoking in indoor public places based on the latest CRPH Research and Policy Highlight
IFI Seminar: How Much Does Smoking Cost Lebanon? An Estimation of the Economic Impacts of Tobacco Consumption
Award: The AUB Tobacco Control Research group (AUB -TCRG) receives 2-year grant in the amount of USD 198,258.5 from the International Development Research Center-Research for International Tobacco Control (IDRC-RITC)
Award: Dr. Huda Zurayk receives the Shousha Prize for significant contribution to public health