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Dr. Monique Chaaya

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Dr. Monique Chaaya

American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon

BIOGRAPHY:

Monique Chaaya, is Professor of Epidemiology at FHS. She graduated with a Doctorate of Public Health from the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Heath in 1999. Since 2002, she has been serving as the coordinator of the MS in Epidemiology program. She played a major role in curriculum development of the MPH and the MS programs in Epidemiology and Population Health, and PhD in Epidemiology. She teaches basic and intermediate courses of Epidemiology to FHS graduate students and coordinate a research course for 2nd year medical students. Her main research interests focus on two priorities in public health, namely mental health and tobacco control. She conducted cross sectional and longitudinal studies on mental health of vulnerable populations, tobacco use and musculoskeletal disorders. She validated five mental health scales: the Arabic Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), the Arabic Perceived Stress Scale and A-RUDAS (Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale), WHI 5 and Arabic DRG10/66. In 2011, Chaaya received an R21 NIH grant to study prevalence of dementia in Lebanon and established a cohort of older adults, that she is assessing now with a grant from the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research.

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