Health Promotion and Community Health
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
Van Dyck Building
PO Box 11-0236
Beirut, Lebanon
Office: Room 318, Van Dyck
Tel: 961 1 350000 Ext.4669; Fax: 961-1-744470
Email: jm04@aub.edu.lb
Website: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~jm04
Academic Degrees
Dr.PH. (1999) University of Wollongong, Australia.
Research Interests
Views of development practice, structural determinants of health
or the political economy of health which revolves around analyzing
how wider social, political and economic factors lead to social
and health inequalities. The detrimental effects of the socio
political system on people's well being especially children
and their families, using qualitative research approach.
Research Projects
Currently co-investigator in a study on Impact of a community
based RCT to improve mental health of Palestinian refugee youth
in Borj el Barajneh.
Investigating possible contributions to frameworks and measures
for health inequities based on research findings from my recent
studies with children and their families in Lebanon.
Courses Taught
HBED 310 Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health (graduate)
HBED 345 Research Project (graduate)
HBED 365 Practicum in HBE (graduate)
PBHL 300 2cr. Health & Environment I (section 1) (graduate)
PBHL 301 2cr. Health & Environment II (graduate)
HBE 332 2cr. Community Health and Dev't (graduate)
HBE 334 2cr. Qualitative Health Research (graduate)
Selected Publications 2010 Afifi, R, Makhoul, J, Nakkash,R, and el-Hajj, T. "Developing a logic model for youth mental health: Participatory research with a refugee community in Beirut."
Health Policy and Planning, submitted.
2010 Makhoul J, Nakkash RT, El Hajj T, Abdulrahim S, Kanj M, Mahfoud Z, & Afifi RA. (Development and validation of the Arab Youth Mental Health Scale.
Community Mental Health Journal doi 10.1007/s10597-010-9312-6
2009 Fadi El-Jardali; Makhoul, J; Diana Jamal; Michael Kent Ranson; Nabil M Kronfol; Victoria Tchaghchagian
"Eliciting policymakers' and stakeholders' opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region."
Health Policy and Planning; doi: 10.1093/heapol/czp059
2009 Nakkash, R., Makhoul, J, and Afifi, R. "October Obtaining informed consent: observations from community research with refugee and impoverished youth."
Journal of Medical Ethics, 35(10).
2009 Makhoul, J. and Ghanem, M. "Displaced Arab Families: mothers’ voices on living and coping in post-war Beirut."
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5(3), 54-73.
2008 Batley, N J, Makhoul , J and Abdul Latif, S "War as a positive medical educational experience."
Medical Education 42: 1166–1171.doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03228.
2007 Makhoul, J. and Nakkash, R. "The use of qualitative techniques to verify quantitative community indicators."
Health Promotion Practice.
2006 Makhoul, J. and El-Barbir, F. "Obstacles to Health in the Arab World." British Medical Journal
(333): 859.
2004 Makhoul, J., Shayboub, R. and Jamal, J. "Violence:
the silent determinant of child labor." Journal of Children
and Poverty 10(2): 131-147.
2004 Makhoul, J., Harrison, L. J. "Intercessory
wasta and village development in Lebanon." Arab Studies
Quarterly 26(3): 25-41.
2003 Makhoul, J. "A structural perspective on poverty
and health inequalities in Lebanon." Bulletin of the
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 5(1): 25-41.
2003 Makhoul, J., Abi Ghanem, D. and Ghanem, M. "An
ethnographic study of the consequences of social and structural
forces on children: the case of two low income Beirut suburbs."
Environment and Urbanization 15(2): 249- 259.
2002 Makhoul, J. and Harrison, L. "Development perspectives:
views from rural Lebanon." Development in Practice
12 (5): 613-623.
Professional Affiliations
Core member of the Arab Families Working Group, a group of international
scholars interested in researching the Arab family. Led by Dr
Suad Joseph, UC Davis (as of March 2001).
Member of the Urban Research Group and the Youth Working Group
at the Faculty of Health Sciences, AUB.
Member of the local Municipal Council, Bterram, El-Koura, Lebanon.
Member of Association of Health Promotion Professionals in Lebanon.
Master
of Public Health
