MPH (2015), AUA Gerald and Patricia Turpanjian School of Public Health (SPH)
MSc (2010), Yerevan State University
Armine Abrahamyan provides research services to Zvart Avedisian Onanian Center for Health Services Research and Development (CHSR) at American University of Armenia (AUA). She has joined the CHSR in March 2014 and has mainly been involved in TB care and tobacco control projects. Her research interest also focuses on pediatric palliative care. For several years she worked at Pediatric Oncology and Chemotherapy Department at the National Oncology Center as a psychotherapist. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto since May, 2018. She has joined the research group of the project entitled: “When do health inequalities start? Understanding the impact of childhood social adversity on health trajectories from birth to early adolescence" (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029567). Her current research interests are related to childhood social adverse experiences and its impact on children’s health.
Armine obtained her Master in Public Health (MPH) degree from the AUA in 2015. During her MPH studies at AUA she devoted her Master’s thesis project that explored pediatric palliative needs of adolescents living with cancer and their parents. Her thesis work was presented and awarded the Prize for the Best Poster in the ASPHER Young Researchers Forum, a pre-conference event at the 8th European Public Health Conference in Milan, Italy. She also earned a Master of Psychology from the Yerevan State University in 2010.