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Jocelyn DeJong is a professor of public health at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.  She is Canadian but spent most of her professional life in the Middle East and North Africa region.  She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (public health) from 2013-2021 and since 2021 serves as Associate Provost at the university-level where she leads efforts related to graduate education and research. 

Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, she has conducted various studies on the effects of conflict and forced displacement on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.  She led a review commissioned by WHO-EMRO on health and migration in the Eastern Mediterranean region in 2021 that was one of 6 regional reports informing the first WHO Global Report on Health and Migration published in 2022.  She has received research funding from WHO (EMRO and HQ), IDRC, ILO, UNDP, UNFPA. 

For 12 years until 2019 she coordinated a capacity-building multidisciplinary research network in the Arab countries and Turkey, the Reproductive Health Working Group.  She holds a BA from Harvard University (in Anthropology with a focus on Medical Anthropology), an MPhil in Development Studies (with a focus on health) from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and a PhD in health policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.