Marwan Khawaja, Ph.D.

Professor
Director, Center for Research on Population & Health 

Epidemiology and Population Health Department
 Faculty of Health Sciences
 American University of Beirut

 P.O.Box 11-0236 Riad El Solh

 Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon

 Tel: (961) 1 350000 ext. 4668

 e-mail: marwan.khawaja@aub.edu.lb
 Web site: www.webfaculty.aub.edu.lb/~mk36     

 Educational Background:
 Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Research Interests:
Social demography, forced migration/refugees, social epidemiology, urban health, violence, gender, poverty and social exclusion, culture, survey methodology.

Selected Publications (since 2000):

2007    Khawaja, Marwan, Rima R. Habib. “Husbands’ involvement in housework and women’s psychosocial health. Findings from a population-based study in Lebanon”, American Journal of Public Health (in press).

2007    Mumtaz, Ghina, Hala Tamim, Mona Kanaan, Marwan Khawaja, Mustafa Khojali, Gerald Wakim, Khalid Younis. "Effect of Consanguinity on Birthweight for Gestational Age in a Developing Country (with invited commentary)" American Journal of Epidemiology (in press).

2007    Khawaja, Marwan, Mona Mowafi. “Types of cultural participation and self-rated health among disadvantaged women in outer Beirut, Lebanon”, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (in press).

2007    Hammoury, Nadwa, Marwan Khawaja, Ziad Mahfoud, Rima A. Afifi Soweid, Haifa Madi. “Domestic violence against women during pregnancy: the case of Palestinian refugees attending an antenatal clinic in Lebanon”, BJOG: International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (in press).

2007    Khawaja, Marwan, Muhannad El-Nsour, Ghada Saad. “Khat (Catha edulis) chewing during pregnancy in Yemen: Findings from a national population survey”, Maternal and Child Health Journal (in press).

2007    Khawaja, Marwan, Nathalie Choueiry, Rozzet Jurdi.  “Hospital-based caesarian section in the Arab region: An overview” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (in press).

2007    Hammoury, Nadwa, Marwan Khawaja. “Screening for domestic violence during pregnancy in an antenatal clinic in Lebanon”, European Journal of Public Health (in press).

2007    Khawaja, Marwan, Rana Barazi, Natalie Linos. “Maternal cultural participation and child health status in a Middle Eastern context: Evidence from the Urban Health Study (with invited commentary)", Child: Care, Health & Development 33: 117-125.

2006    Khawaja, Marwan, Sawsan Abdelrahim Rima A. Afifi Soweid, and Dima Karam. “Distrust, social fragmentation and adolescent health in the outer city: Beirut and beyond”, Social Science and Medicine 63: 1304-1315.

2006    Khawaja, Marwan and Mona Mowafi. “Cultural capital and self-rated health in low income women:  Evidence from the urban health study, Beirut, Lebanon," Journal of Urban Health 83 (3): 444-458.

2006    Khawaja, Marwan, Mylene Salem, Maya Obeid and Matilda Saliba. “Civic Engagement, gender and self-rated health in poor communities: Evidence from Jordan’s refugee camps”, Health Sociology Review 15(2) 192-208.

2006    Khawaja, Marwan and Sara Randall. “The Intifada, Palestinian fertility and women’s education”, Genus LXII: 21-52.

2006    Saliba, Matilda, Marwan Khawaja, Faysal El-Kak. “Symptomatology of menopause among middle-aged women in peri and early post menopause phase residing in low income communities”, Saudi Medical Journal 27:1436-1438.

2005    Khawaja, Marwan and Rana Barazi. “Prevalence of wife beating in Jordan refugee camps. Reports of men and women”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59: 840-841.

2005    Khawaja, Marwan. Review of “The Social Origin of Health and Well-Being,” by Richard Eckersley, Jane Dixon and Bob Douglas (eds.), Health Sociology Review14: 190-191.

2005    Mowafi, Mona and Marwan Khawaja. “Poverty”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59: 260-64.

2005    Khawaja, Marwan, Jesse Downs and Anna Chadarivian. “Child health in the Arab region during the 1990s”, a chapter in Charting the Mediterranean Child. Genoa: Medchild Foundation. Pp. 19-32.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan, Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian and Rozzet Jurdi. “Determinants of caesarian section in Egypt: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey,” Health Policy 69: 273-281.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan. “Domestic violence in refugee camps in Jordan,” International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 86: 67-69.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan and Mylene Twetel-Salem. “Agreement between husband and wife reports of domestic violence:  Evidence from poor refugee communities in Lebanon,” International Journal of Epidemiology 33: 526-533.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan. "The extraordinary decline of infant and childhood mortality among Palestinian refugees" Social Science and Medicine 58(2): 463-470.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan, Rozzet Jurdi and Tamar-Kabakian-Khasholian. “Rising trends in caesarian section rates in Egypt” Birth 31 (1):12-16.

2004    Jurdi, Rozzet and Marwan Khawaja. “Caesarian section rates in the Arab region: A cross national study”, Health Policy and Planning 19 (2):101-110.

2004    Khawaja, Marwan and Rima Adel Afifi-Soweid.  “Image of body weight among young men and women: Evidence from Beirut, Lebanon,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58: 352-353.

2004    Afifi-Soweid, Rima A, Marwan Khawaja and Mylene Twetel-Salem. “Religious identity and smoking behavior among adolescents: Evidence from entering students at the American University of Beirut” Health Communication 16: 47-62. 

2003    Khawaja, Marwan. "Migration and the reproduction of poverty: The Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan" International Migration 41:27-57.

2003    Khawaja, Marwan. "The fertility of Palestinian women in Gaza, West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon" Population 58: 273-302.

2003    Khawaja, Marwan and Laurie Blome-Jacobsen. "Familial relations and labor market outcomes: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon" Social Science Research 32: 579-602.

2003    Khawaja, Marwan. "Demographic Characteristics,” in Laurie Blome Jacobsen (Ed.) Finding Means: UNRWA Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions. Vol. 1. Oslo: Fafo. Pp. 20-55.

2003    Khawaja, Marwan. "Population," a chapter in Ole Fr. Ugrand (Ed.) Difficult Past, Uncertain Future: Living Conditions among Palestinian Refugees in Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon. Oslo: Fafo.  Pp. 29-60.

2002    Khawaja, Marwan. Internal Migration in Syria: Findings from a National Survey.  Oslo: Fafo. ISBN: 82-7422-366-7. (140 pp). 

2002    Khawaja, Marwan and Åage Tiltnes (Eds.). On the Margins: Migration and Living Conditions of the Refugee Camp Population in Jordan .  Oslo: Fafo. ISBN: 82-7422-343-8 (210 pp)

2001    Pedersen, Jon, Sara Randall, and Marwan Khawaja (Eds.). Growing Fast: The Palestinian Population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Oslo: Fafo. ISBN: 82-7422-309-8 (192 pp.)

2001    Khawaja, Marwan. "Family and Household", a chapter in Jon Pedersen et al.(eds.) Growing Fast: The Palestinian Populaiton in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Oslo: Fafo. Pp. 39-69.

2000    Khawaja, Marwan. "The Recent Rise in Palestinian Fertility: Permanent or Transient?" Population Studies 54(3): 331-346.

2000    McLaughlin, Paul and Marwan Khawaja. "The Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Environmental Movement, Legitimation, Resource Mobilization, and Political Opportunity,” Rural Sociology  63(3): 422-439.