Jocelyn DeJong, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
PO-Box 11-0236 Riad El Solh
Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
Tel: + (961) 1 350000 ext. 4644 /4640
Email: jd16@aub.edu.lb


Educational Background:
PhD, Health Policy in Developing Countries, London, United Kingdom.
MPhil, Development Studies, IDS, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
BA, Social Anthropology, Harvard University, United States of America.


Research Interests:
Reproductive health in the Middle East; young people's reproductive health; reproductive health, health systems and development; health consequences of population change; HIV/AIDS.


Selected Recent Publications:
Abboud, S., Noureddine, S., Abu Saad Huijer, H., DeJong, J. (2009).  Quality of Life of HIV/AIDS Patients in Lebanon. AIDS Care (forthcoming).

DeJong, J., Mahfoud, Z., El Khoury, D., Barbir, F and Afifi, R. (corresponding) (2009).   Ethical Considerations in HIV/AIDS Biobehavioral surveys using Respondent-Driven Sampling: Illustrations from Lebanon.  American Journal of Public Health 99(9) 1562-7.

Assaf, S., Khawaja, M., DeJong, J., Mahfoud, Z., and Yunis, K. (2008). Consanguinity and Reproductive Wastage in the Palestinian Territories.Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 23(2), 107-115.

Sweidan, M., Mahfoud, Z., DeJong, J., & (corresponding author). (2008). Hospital policies and practices concerning normal childbirth in Jordan. Studies in Family Planning, 39(1), 59-68.

DeJong, J., Shepard, B., Roudi-Fahimi, F., & Ashford, L. (2007).Young People's sexual and reproductive health in the middle east and north Africa region. In press (MENA Policy Brief Population Reference Bureau.)

Kabakian-Khasholian, T., Kaddour, A., DeJong, J., Shayboub, R., & Nassar, A. (2007). The policy environment encouraging C-section in Lebanon. Health Policy, 83(1), 37-49.

DeJong, J. (2006). Capabilities, reproductive health and well-being: An application of Sen's and Nussbaum's capabilities framework. Journal of Development Studies, 42(7), 1158-1179.

DeJong, J. (2006). Arab states: Women and sexually transmitted diseases. In S. Joseph (Ed.), Encyclopedia of women in Islamic cultures (Vol. III: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health ed., pp. 219- 221) Brill.

DeJong, J., & El-Khoury, G. (2006). Reproductive health of Arab young people. British Medical Journal, 333, 849-851.

DeJong, J., Jawad, R., Mortagy, I., & Shepard, B. (2005). The sexual and reproductive health of young people in the arab countries and Iran. Reproductive Health Matters., 13(25), 49- 59.

Shepard, B., & DeJong, J. (2005). Breaking the silence and saving lives: Young people's sexual and reproductive health in the Arab states and Iran.International Health and human Rights Program, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights: Harvard University.