MPH (Health Management and Policy), American University of Beirut
Roubina Karhily is a Public Health professional from Lebanon. She has a Master of Public Health Degree with an emphasis on Health Management and Policy and a BS in Biology (Minor in Psychology) from the American University of Beirut.
Roubina has been working at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia since September 2022. She is also providing healthcare consulting in Armenia and abroad. She has been involved in various administrative and community activities throughout her career. She was an Instructor/Lecturer, Assistant to the Program Director, and Undergraduate/Graduate Internship Coordinator (2012-2022) in the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. She has worked with several Armenian Primary Health Care Centers in Lebanon to prepare them for accreditation by Accreditation Canada International. She also acted as a Research Assistant at the Hamad Medical Corporation’s Smoking Cessation Program, Qatar, in 2011.
She has great interest in healthcare systems and management; primary health care; quality control; accreditation; and health education and promotion. She is a member of the Lebanese Healthcare Management Association and the Lebanese Epidemiological Association.
E-mail Address
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607MB
Teaching (Office hours and room)
Office no.: 607MB
Office hours: 4:20-5:20pm
CHSS 296 Special Topics in Social Sciences: Health in Human Rights
Roubina Karhily
My View:
Education
Continuous, life-long learning is essential to stay up-to-date, critically analyze situations, and not take things for granted.
Research
I am primarily interested in working on improving healthcare systems in order to ensure that everyone has access to healthcare without any discrimination. I am also interested in the delivery of quality services in all kinds of healthcare centers (primary, secondary, or tertiary), which would improve patient satisfaction and reduce risks and errors within these settings. As a Public Health professional, I am keen on working on projects that raise awareness about various health issues and providing health education sessions to different groups within the society.
Outreach
Community outreach is essential to ensure capacity building, behavior change, sustainable living, and continuous development of the society.
Publications
Nakkash, R., Al Mulla, A., Torossian, L., Karhily, R., Shuayb, L., Mahfoud, Z., Janahi, I., Al Ansari, A., Afifi, R. (2014). Challenges to Obtaining Parental Permission for Child Participation in a School-based Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Prevention Intervention in Qatar. BMC Medical Ethics, 15(70).