Graduate student
University of South Carolina, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Lebanon
I am a midwife and an epidemiologist by training, and currently a third-year doctoral student in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) at the University of South Carolina. I began my research career in 2021 by joining a research group at the American University of Beirut, after completing a Master’s in Public Health (specialized in Methodology and Statistics in Biomedical and Epidemiological Research). Since then, I have been employing advanced statistical modeling techniques to investigate social determinants of health across the life course, particularly in humanitarian settings. My research portfolio focuses on the health of women and children, refugees, and interactions between food insecurity and health. I plan to build a career as an academic researcher in women and children’s health, with a focus on addressing health inequities caused by war, conflict and displacement. To achieve this, I will conduct research to understand how adversity (e.g. conflict, poverty and food insecurity) at critical windows in the life course (e.g. in utero, early infancy and adolescence) contribute to health trajectories.