Jihad Makhoul

 

Jihad Makhoul currently holds the position of associate professor and chair at the Department of Health Behavior and Education, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She finished her doctorate in Public Health from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Jihad has conducted research in Lebanon on the influence of internal displacement on families in Beirut, structural determinants of health especially in urban contexts of Beirut, as well as the conditions of young persons in postwar conditions.

 

Research Projects: Displaced Arab Families: Coping and Changes in post-war Beirut, Displaced Arab Families Coping and Changes: Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon

 

Links: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~jm04, http://fhs.aub.edu.lb/

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Obtaining informed consent: observations from community research with refugee and impoverished youth, In Medical Ethics, 2009.

    * Displaced Arab Families: mothers’ voices on living and coping in post-war Beirut, In Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, 2009.

    * Violence: the Silent Determinant of Child Labor, Journal of Children and Poverty, 2004.

    * An Ethnographic Study of the Consequences of Social and Structural Forces on Children: The Case of Two Low Income Beirut Suburbs, in Environment and Urbanization, 2003.

    * A Structural Perspective on Poverty and Health Inequalities in Lebanon, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2003.