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Director of the Social Research Center

Rashad, Hoda

Dr. Hoda Rashad, has a Ph.D. in population studies from the University of London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1977. She is the director and Research Professor in the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo, Member of the Senate (El Shoura Council), one of the two parliamentary bodies in Egypt, Also, serving on different councils in Egypt. She is a resource person and consultant to a number of regional and international organizations.
She served as a resource person to UNICEF/Gulf office to coordinate the preparation of Gulf country reports on: “Situation Analysis of Children”. The reports are the base documents for developing the UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Governments of the Gulf countries.
Dr. Rashad previously worked as a faculty member at the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University, and as an associate of the International Population Council and Chief Technical Advisor of the United Nations.
She was a Member of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health established by WHO (2005 -2008), the Commission produced its final report identifying a number of social policies and actions to achieve health equity.
Her Current research interests include social policies for development – (particularly for poverty alleviation, health equity and women's empowerment), gender issues, reproductive health, demographic analysis and evaluation of impact of health intervention. Current responsibilities include directing the substantive program of the Social Research Center (SRC), fund raising and overseeing the execution of SRC grants (A typical cycle of 3 years, will include an average of 30 grants with a budget of around $4 millions) as well as active participation in research.
Dr. Rashad has numerous publications on health equity and social policies. Her forthcoming publication is "Knowledge Gaps: The Agenda for Research and Action” in I. Nuwayhid, M. Khawaja, S. Jabbour and R. Giacaman (eds) Public Health in the Arab World. Cambridge Press..
E-mail: hrashad@aucegypt.edu
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Research Faculty

Ayeb, Habib
Habib Ayeb, born in Tunisia, is a geographer, researcher at the SRC (Social Research Center) at the AUC (American University in Cairo) in Egypt. His domains of researches are water issues, social changes, access to resources, poverty and marginality… He is conducting comparative research in Egypt, Tunisia and India on “competitions over agricultural, rural and environmental resources and marginalisation of small farmers”.
Habib Ayeb worked in several different institutions including the Ministry of Agriculture in Tunisia, the University of Paris 8-St Denis, CEDEJ (Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Juridiques et Sociales), IRD (Institute of Research for Development) and from 2006 till now the SRC (Social Research Center).
Habib Ayeb is also interested and has published several studies on poverty, marginalization, environment, biodiversity, food sovereignty and broader human rights, including rights to the environment and natural and manmade resources: Among these published works:Books:
2010 Ayeb H, La crise de la société rurale en Egypte ou la fin du fellah ? Paris. Karthala.
2009 Ayeb H. & RUF T., Water, Poverty and Social Crises; (CD). Paris. IRD.
1998, Ayeb H., L’eau au Proche-Orient : la guerre n’aura pas lieu. CEDEJ - KARTHALA, Paris. June 1998.

Affiliations
• Member of the: Ecole Doctorale Sciences Sociales "Milieux, Cultures et Sociétés du Passé et du Présent". Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre (Phd Supervisor)
• Member of the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Peasant Studies
• Founding Member of the Rural Network MEDME (Mediterranean and Middle East).
E-mail: habib_ayeb@aucegypt.edu
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Hamed, Ramadan

Dr. Ramadan Hamed received his Ph.D. in statistics from Cairo University in 1987. He is Professor in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, and Research Professor at the Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Egypt.
He is the Director of the Center for Surveys and Statistical Applications, Cairo University and served as Deputy Director for El-Zanaty & Associated for Studies, Research and Consultation that conducted the different rounds of Egypt Demographic and Health Survey. He has over 30 years experience in surveys (both quantitative and qualitative) design, supervision and analysis. His experience includes; Survey design and plan, sample design and selection, instruments development, (questionnaires, in depth interviews guides, focus groups guides, etc…), training, field work coordination, statistical data analysis, writing reports and scientific papers, and preparing presentations.
Dr. Hamed has been principal investigator of many projects that have been conducted with collaboration with World Bank, Ford Foundation, AID, John Snow, Population Council as well as several Ministries; Ministry of Investment, Ministry of Communications and Information, Ministry of Public Water and Irrigation.
As a Professor in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Hamed has extensive teaching background for students enrolled undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees.
His research interests include education, family planning, reproductive health, Investment, environment, agriculture and others.
E-mail: ramadanh@aucegypt.edu
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El-Hefnawy, Aly

Aly Dessouky El-Hefnawy received his Ph. D. in statistics from Cairo University in 1999. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. His current research interests are in multivariate statistical analysis, missing data problems, data envelopment analysis and mathematical programming. He is working at SRC on the project to monitor efforts to eradicate female illiteracy in Egypt.
Email: Ahefnawy@aucegypt.edu
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Khadr, Zeinab

Dr. Zeinab A. Khadr is a Ph.D. holder in Demography, from University of Michigan since 1997. She has been working in SRC since 1998. Currently, she is an Associate Research Professor in SRC and an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
Dr. Khadr has extensive teaching experience in the following fields; demography, sampling, descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis, health equity, research methodology and population development.
At the SRC, Dr. Khadr has been the Principal Investigator of several research projects including “Marriage and Family Formation among the Youth in Egypt,” ”Urban Inequity,” “Social Determinants of health and health equity in the Arab region” and “Health Equity and integrated health and poverty alleviation policies.” She has also been the local Principal Investigator on the project on “Validation of Gender Differences in Disability and Care. “
Dr. Khadr was also the Principal Investigator in the organization of a seminar on health inequity: Current knowledge and new approaches. She was the Chair of Scientific Panel of the International Union for Scientific Studies on Population (IUSSP) on “Health equity and policy in the Arab World.”
Her research interests include measuring health disparities, family arrangement in older ages, and development of urban areas. Among her latest publications "Using GIS in Constructing Area-based Physical Deprivation Index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt" and "Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequity in Maternal Health Indicators in Egypt: 1995 -2005".
Email: zeinabk@aucegypt.edu
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Langsten, Ray

Ray Langsten received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Michigan in 1980. He has been an Associate Research Professor at SRC since 1988, studying the impact of child and maternal health initiatives supported by USAID and the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population.
He has worked as a consultant for Family Health International and the Population Council, the Middle East and North Africa Regional Offices of the Ford Foundation, and for the Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Turkey offices of UNICEF; he has also participated in population projects in Bangladesh and Brazil.
Dr. Langsten has been the principal investigator for a number of large longitudinal surveys (6 - 10 thousand households), and have developed data entry and management systems to process and analyze data efficiently. Recently he has worked on projects using innovative methods of integrating quantitative and qualitative data.
His main research interests are in program evaluation and initiative assessment.
His teaching interests are: Demography, Research Methods, Maternal and Child Health, Statistics.
Email: langsten@aucegypt.edu
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Mehanna, Sohair

Sohair Mehanna received her M.A.L.D. in political science at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1973. She has been a member of SRC professional staff since 1963, where she is now Research Associate and Director of Field Work Operations. She has a long experience in all phases of social science field research in Egypt. Her areas of specialization are the design and implementation of surveys and qualitative research including focus groups, case studies and in-depth interviews. Her main areas of research interest are health issues, women’s issues, family planning and environmental issues. Recent publications and conference papers.
Email: mehannas@aucegypt.edu
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Mohamed, Faten
Faten Abd El-Fattah received her PhD in economics from Ain Shams University in 2003. She is an Assistant Research Professor at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo. Her current research interests are gender, reproductive health, and child and women issues. She is working on the project to monitor efforts to evaluate investment climate in Egypt. She was the Assistant Director of the “2000 Egyptian Demographic Health Survey”, and “Health Expenditure Project” “Maternal Morbidity in Menufia Governorate”. She also acts as a consultant for National Council for Women (NCW), Population Council, Healthy Mother /Healthy Child project and UNICEF. She was the project coordinator for many surveys on child health, reproductive health and advocacy projects.
Email: fbarkuki@aucegypt.edu
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Nassar, Heba

Heba Nassar received her Ph.D. in economics from Cairo University in 1983, through the channel system with Cologne University. She joined SRC as Associate Research Professor in 1993. In September 1998 she was appointed director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, where she is also Professor of Economics. She has also taught at the Cairo Demographic Center and the Department of Economics at AUC. She has acted as a consultant for WHO, UNFPA, UNESCWA, UNICEF, the Ministries of Health in Egypt, Kuwait and Bahrain, the Center for Human Services, USAID, Petrich Associates and the Netherlands Cooperation Programme. Her research interests include human resource development and economic integration. Recent publications.
Email: hebanas@aucegypt.edu
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Nour Eldien, Mohamed

Mohamed Nour Eldien received his Ph.D. in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Computer Science from Louis Pasture University, France in 2001. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer and Information, Cairo University. He joined SRC as a Research Assistant Professor, working on the project “Supporting, Monitoring & Evaluating Female Illiteracy eradication effort in Egypt”. Since then, he has worked in a variety of projects as the lead member in GIS and IT project components. His main research interests are in information system, GIS, database design, software engineering and web design.
He has distinctive activities in E-learning including: leading a team to developing the E-learning courses of a one year diploma in E-learning in the Open University Center of Cairo University since September 2009. The site for the E-learning diploma is http://itechnology.fci.cu.edu.eg/.
Dr. Nour was invited by the ISESCO to evaluate the utilization of the E-learning and web technology in the Arabic and Islamic countries (The first time in Cairo from 27 to 31 October 2007, the second time in Rabat - Kingdom of Morocco from 15 to 16 November 2007).

He Taught a short course named "How to Develop Your Course in E-learning Environment" for three groups in the "Arab Council for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Cairo". In 2008 and 2009.

Cairo University has targeted 10% of its courses to be transferred into e-learning and accordingly Dr. Nour was chosen as an E-learning Supreme Committee Member of Cairo University to test and approve the e-learning courses of all faculties in 2006-2007.

He was an Invited speaker in the Fifth International Conference in Internet Education, "Evolution of E-Learning in Egyptian Universities," The Human and Technology Development Foundation, Cairo, Sep. 2006.

He is one of the team working on establishing an E-learning Center in Faculty of Computer and Information at Cairo University since 2003.

Also, Dr. Nour has developed four e-courses since 2004; Internet Technology, Geographic Information System, Design of Information Systems, Multimedia database in Tempus and HEEPF Projects.
Email: m_nour@aucegypt.edu
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Saad, Reem

Reem Saad received her D.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Oxford in 1994; her thesis title was “Peasants’ Perception of recent Egyptian history”. Her research interests include rural Egypt, historical anthropology, issues of public culture and ethnographic film. She was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 1993/95. At SRC she is Associate Research Professor. She is the author of a monograph and a number of articles on village and peasant in contemporary Egypt. She has participated as an anthropologist on the BBC documentary “Marriage Egyptian Style”, 1992, and as assistant director on the documentary “Four Women of Egypt”, produced by the Canadian National Film Board, 1997.      
Email: reemsaad@aucegypt.edu
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El Saadani, Somaya

Dr. Somaya EL-Saadani, is a Ph.D. holder in demography since 1993. Dr. Somaya El-Saadani is Associate Research Professor at the Social Research Center (SRC) and Associate Professor of Demography at the Department of Demography and Biostatistics, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University.
She is the Coordinator of the academic course “Monitoring and Evaluation Research with Applications on Poverty Alleviation Program” Provided by Social Research Center and the School of Public Policy and Administration.
Being an associate professor of demography and biostatistics at the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (ISSR) in Cairo University, Dr. El Saadani has extensive teaching background for students enrolled in Diploma, Master and Doctoral degrees. Currently she teaches the following courses; advanced topics in migration, advanced topics in health, morbidity, and mortality, and basic concepts and measures of health. She had been teaching other demographic courses such as population models, population dynamics, introduction to demography, family planning, internal migration and urbanization, evaluation of data quality,
Dr. El Saadani is a Co-Principal Investigator of Health Equity and Integrated Health and Poverty Alleviation Policies project. She is responsible for evaluating the potential impact of implementing different models of the integrated social policy approach on reproductive health. She developed targeting criteria to recruit people living in extreme poverty in a pilot Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in a slum area (Ein elsira) in Cairo.
She is statistical consultant for advanced statistical analysis for “The Standing Project on Drug Abuse in Egypt”, The National Center for Social and Criminological Research, Egypt and member of the board of consultants for The National Review of Drug Abuse and Addiction issued by The National Center for Social and Criminological Research in collaboration with the National Council for Addressing Drug Combat and Addiction, Egypt.
Her research interest includes evaluation research with application on poverty alleviation programs, health, morbidity, and mortality, reproductive health, social demography, internal migration and urbanization and poverty and international migration.
Recently, she has presented "Challenges Facing Health Insurance Regime and Health Equity in Egypt" in front of the IUSSP International Seminar on "Social and Health Policies for Equity: Approaches and Strategies" and her forthcoming publication is an attempt to determine if the health insurance system reduces health inequality in Egypt?"          
Email: ssaadani@aucegypt.edu
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Al Sharmani, Mulki

Mulki Al-Sharmani is an Assistant Research Professor at Social Research Center, the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is also an adjunct teaching faculty at Institute for Gender and Women Studies, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, and Department of Anthropology at AUC. Mulki holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Her research interest/work is on family laws in the Middle East with a focus on Egypt; forced migration and gender; and child protection policies in Egypt
Email: mulki@aucegypt.edu
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Shawky, Sherine

Dr. Sherine Shawky is a medical doctor graduated from Ain Shams University in 1980, has a Doctorate in Public Health from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in 1992; MPH in Epidemiology from the Catholic University of Louvain and MPH in “Statistics, Epidemiologic and Operational Methods Applied in Medicine and Public Health” from the Free University of Brussels.
She has joined SRC as Research Professor in 2003. She was Associate Professor in Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, 1996-2003. She worked as physician at Kigali Central Hospital and lecturer of Paediatrics in the School of Assistant Doctors as part of the Egyptian/Rwandan Cooperation Program, Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1983-1988. She participated in the continuing medical education program in Saudi Arabia and in the Super-course web Tele-prevention program of the University of Pittsburg.
She has participated through video-conferencing in teaching developing research proposals to trainees enrolled in “The Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI), Summer Course 2010”. She is on the board of examiners for the “Arab Board in Community and family Medicine” provided by the Arab Board of Medical Specializations, Council of Arab Health Ministers, Arab League. She is the author of the chapter on Goal 6 in Egypt National MDGs Monitoring Report 2006 and 2010 and also of the chapter on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in the ICPD+15 National Report.
At SRC, she is the coordinator of the annual 3-month workshop entitled “Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation with Special Application to Population and Health” and teaches over 50% of its lectures and all the practical sessions on developing research proposal, secondary analysis and developing M&E indicators and log frame. She has developed many educational material related to research methods, measuring inequities in health, HIV/AIDS surveillance and program evaluation. She has worked and published extensively on many health issues including prenatal health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
Email: Shshawky@aucegypt.edu
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El-Sheneity, Sahar
Dr. Sahar El-Sheneity had her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics from Cairo University in 1990 and 1995 respectively. She had her Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University in 2003. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Sciences (Department of Statistics). Also, she is an Assistant Research Professor at the Social Research Center (SRC) of the American University in Cairo (AUC).
After graduating from Cairo University, she held the position of a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Statistics for introductory courses in statistics and mathematics, regression models, random sampling, demography, applied statistics, and experiment design.
She worked on her M.Sc. thesis on analyzing differentials in infant mortality in Egypt using hazard models. Besides working as a teaching assistant, she worked at several research centers in Egypt; Al-Mishkat center for research and the Social Research Center (SRC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). In both centers, she worked at a variety of research topics in population research; infant and child mortality, child labor, education, poverty, gender differentials, etc…
During the academic year 2004/2005, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University where she was trained as a demographer. She also worked on a research paper focusing on the effects of prenatal care and breastfeeding on infant mortality in Egypt using the Egypt IDHS 2003 data. While at Princeton, she also worked as a statistical programmer on Texas Higher Education Opportunities Project (THEOP).
Being an Assistant Professor in Cairo University, she has been teaching courses on design and analysis of experiments, survival analysis and multivariate analysis.
Dr. El-Sheneity is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Social Research Center at the American university in Cairo. She worked as the principal investigator of the project on the “Measuring the situation of women and their living conditions” . Several analytical reports have been issued using the collected data like relation between women’s empowerment and their exposure to spousal violence .
Currently, Dr. El-Sheneity is the Principal Investigator of a project related to establishing safe communities free from violence against women and girls. The focus is on the safety of women and girls in the public sphere. It is a global project established by UNIFEM.


Email: sahars@aucegypt.edu

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Sholkamy, Hania

Hania Sholkamy is an Egyptian anthropologist with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, The University of London. She obtained her BA and MA from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is currently assistant professor at the Social Research Center of the AUC and is also affiliated with the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the university. Prior to her current position she has held positions with the department of anthropology of the AUC, has been a Research Associate at the International Population Council and was the Ioma Evans Pritchard Junior Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University. Her research interests and publications are mainly in the fields of health, particularly reproductive health, gender, population and qualitative methods.. She has co-edited two volumes, one titled Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography (OUP) with S. Szreter and A. Dharmalingam and another titled Health and Identity in Egypt (AUC press) with F. Ghanam.
She has been a member of various professional associations including The Reproductive Health Working Group (current), the Committee on Anthropology and Demography of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (1998-2002) and the Advisory Committee of the Middle East Awards program of the International Population Council (2002/3). She is also a member of the executive committee of the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies of the AUC, A fellow of the Economic Research Forum, and a member of the International Faculty of the Arab Gulf University in Bahrain.
Email: Hanias@aucegypt.edu
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Watts, Susan
Susan Watts received her Ph.D in geography from the University of Liverpool (UK) in 1983. Since 1991 she has been a Research Associate at SRC, working on projects on schistosomiasis and hepatitis C. From 1977 to 1984 she taught in Nigeria, as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Ilorin. In addition to Egypt and Nigeria, she has conducted field research in Uganda and Morocco. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF, Save the Children, USAID/WASH, Global 2000, NAMRU-3 and WHO. Her main research interests are in human behavior and disease transmission, hygiene behavior, and the linkages between water, sanitation and health. Recent publications.
Email: sjwatts@aucegypt.edu
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Zaky, Hassan

Dr. Hassan Zaky received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Population Dynamics, majoring in demography with double minor in statistics and economics.
He joined SRC since 2000 as a Research professor and has been working in Africa and the Middle East for the last nineteen years. Dr. Zaky directed or co-directed several studies and sample surveys. Main highlights of his past experience include the position of the assistant director of the 1992 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey. He was also the director of a project for building a statistical observatory for the health sector at WHO and evaluating the health sector reform program of Egypt. He is always involved in training, capacity building, teaching, report writing, and providing statistical consultations/advice to international agencies such as UNFPA, WHO, FAO, etc.
Dr. Zaky is a Professor at the Department of Statistics, School of Economics and Political Science. He has a rich experience in teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses including courses in Demography; Advanced topics in statistics with applications to social research and Linear models on the undergraduate level. On the graduate level, he has taught courses of Mathematical demography and Econometric models. As a Teaching Assistant in Johns Hopkins University, he has an experience with additional topics like Economics of population and its planning; Introduction to population dynamics; Food policy, health and population in low-income countries.

Dr. Zaky is the editor and a co-author of a textbook in demography in Arabic published by the Population Council.
Dr. Zaky has authored many technical reports and published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international conferences focusing on health and population. He is the editor and senior author of EGYPT's ICPD+15 report.
His research interests are reproductive health, fertility plateau in Egypt and other Arab countries and in estimation of the demographic dividend in Egypt.
Email: hzaky@aucegypt.edu 
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El Zeini, Laila

Laila El-Zeini received her Ph. D. in statistics from Cairo University in 1992. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Cairo University. As an Associate Professor, she has taught undergraduate courses in Sampling; Demography; Biostatistics; Categorical Data Analysis; Decision Analysis; Statistics for Psychologists. She has also taught graduate courses in Demography (Population Estimation and Projection; Population Theories and Models; Survival Analysis). She has also worked as a lectured in Cairo Demographic Center where she taught courses of Demography as a Discipline (General Diploma in Demography); Mortality and Morbidity (Special Diploma in Demography).
She has been working since 1995 as an Associate Research Professor at SRC, where she was the Principal Investigator of the research project “Towards Policies for Child Protection: a Field Study to Assess Child Abuse in Deprived Communities in Egypt.” She was also a contributor to other research projects like “The New Arab Demography” and” Survey on Political Participation of Egyptian Women.” She was also the quality reviewer of research funded through the Partnership in Development Research Program.
Dr. El-Zeini has an experience as a trainer in the “Specialist Workshop on Reproductive Health in the Arab Countries”, “Training Program on Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation”, trainer of Interviewers, “Survey on Fertility and Contraceptive Use of Kuwaiti Women” and trainer on data analysis using SPSS in Cairo Demographic Center and the Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD).
Dr. El-Zeini has worked as a consultant for many organizations including the League of Arab States where she was a trainer and editor in the Population Research Unit, Workshop on Evaluation of Data Quality of PAPCHILD Surveys. She has also been a consultant for the Cairo Demographic Center, the Gulf Area Office of UNICEF, and the National Council for Women.
Dr. El-Zeini has worked as a consultant for the Population Council regional office North Africa and West Asia for the study on Stalled Fertility Transition in Egypt, and as the coordinator of the chapter on health in Egypt periodic report issued by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood.
Her main research interests include family planning and reproductive choice, child health, and kinship and family structure, fertility transition in Egypt and other Arab countries, and estimation of unwanted fertility.   
Email: lelzeini@aucegypt.edu
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Administration

Abdel Karim, Fatma


Email: fatma@aucegypt.edu

 

Hassanein, Dalia


Email: dalia_ha@aucegypt.edu

 

Sabry, Mordefine Hassan

Mordefine Hassan Sabry graduated from the Political Science Department at Cairo University. She has been working at Cairo Sheraton Hotel in the accounting department, and before joining the SRC in 1996 she was also an Accountant in private business.
Email: mord@aucegypt.edu

 

Soliman, Gunilla

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Email: gunilla@aucegypt.edu

 

Tawfik, Mona

    
Email: monat@aucegypt.edu

 

Researchers and Research Assistants

Ali, Zeinab

Zeinab Ali graduated from Cairo University, B.A in Commerce. She is currently working on a project entitled “The organization of work in Upper Egypt”. She worked in many projects such as “Poverty” and “Adolescence and Social Change: Transitions to Adulthood”. Her responsibilities include field work, coding, data entry, and data management. Zeinab Ali has been a research assistant at the Social Research Center from March 1994 to present.
Email: Zali@aucegypt.edu

 
Bakr, Mona
Mona Bakr a graduate of Economics Department in 1993 AUC .  Joined the Anthropology Department in 1995 as a graduate student.  I worked in the Population Council as an assistant researcher in the field of Family planning from 1991-1992.  Served in EgyptAir as technical editor from 1996-2000. Mona joined the SRC in June 2006.  She is planning to join the graduate program of women and gender studies in AUC . She believes that her work as an assistant researcher in that field rose her interest to have more knowledge about that area of study.

Gowayed, Hebatalla

Email: gowayed@aucegypt.edu
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Hallez, Kristina
Email: khallez@aucegypt.edu
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Hassan, Mohammed

Mohamed's principal responsibility is to prepare the field logistics for the research projects conducted by SRC, including participation in the design of interview schedules, supervision of data collection, and data processing on numerous projects including: Earthquake, Poverty, Schistosomiasis, Environmental Changes, Political Participation, Adolescence, and Patterns of Marriage during the period from 1992 to 2000. In general, Mohamed is responsible for assisting in undertaking the administrative and operational aspects of fieldwork arrangements. In addition, he provides assistance in coordinating the qualitative methods and analysis part of the Training Program in Research Methods and Policy Analysis which is held annually by the SRC. Also, he has been worked as an assistant to the coordinator of the Program "Partnership in Development Research" for five years, helping in managing, monitoring, and evaluating the research project conducted by the program, other program responsibilities include organizing training courses, and development of databases applications and websites.
Email: mohhh@aucegypt.edu

 

Hassan, Tahra

Tahra Hassan graduated from Cairo University, B.A of Arts, Mass Communication with a specialization in Television and Radio; Diploma in International Politics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She is currently working in a project entitled “Determinants of Educational Attainment : A Cross-National Household Level Analysis”. Responsibilities included translation of materials from Arabic to English; coding; data management; using the Statistical SPSS Program for Quantitative Analysis and using the DTSearch Program for Qualitative Analysis. She also worked as a Research Assistant in numerous projects including “Perinatal Neonatal mortality”; “Patterns of Marriage Among Egyptian Youth in Egypt”; “Healthy Mother Healthy Child”; and “Adolescence and Social Change-Transitions to Adulthood: A National Survey of Adolescents in Egypt".  She has worked as a Research Assistant at the Social Research Center from Dec. 1997 to present.
Email: thassan@aucegypt.edu
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Ibrahim, Amal
Amal is working as a research assistant in the SRC training program entitled “Social Science Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation”. Her Job Responsibilities include filing application forms for the course attendees, carrying out necessary correspondences tasks with possible attendees, and helping selected attendees during the course.
Email: amalhassan@aucegypt.edu

 
Ismail, Mona
Mona received her masters degree in demography from Cairo Demographic Center in 1991. She has experience as a social researcher, with strong expertise in the design, development, implementation, analysis and reporting of field researches. She has extensive expertise in the development and implementation of structured surveys and is able use a variety of statistical analysis tools. Furthermore, she has strong skills in the implementation of qualitative and participatory research techniques, including in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Her main research interests include gender issues, family planning, reproductive health, women and development.
Email: monaismail@aucegypt.edu

 
Moussa, Mervat
Mervat Moussa has graduated from the faculty of Commerce, Cairo University. She has been working at Cairo Safir Hotel in the Accounting department. She joined SRC as a research assistant in 2005.
Email: Mervatm@aucegypt.edu
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Mustafa, Eman

Eman received her master degree in demography from Cairo Demographic Center in 1989. She has been working since 2000 at SRC. Her main research interests include family planning ,quality of family planning services, reproductive health, marriage and aging.
Email: emanmost@aucegypt.edu
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Salem, Mohamed

Dr. Mohamed Salem is a Medical Doctor, with Master Degree of Public Health from the American University in Beirut. He is specialized in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He has been working as a researcher at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo since 2008. His research interest encompasses social epidemiology, social determinants of health, health disparity, and infectious disease epidemiology. Dr. Salem is the assistant coordinator of the annual regional three-month training course "Research Methods for guiding policy and Evaluation". He is a trainer and a facilitator of the skills development component in the same course. Currently, Dr. Salem is involved in evaluating the impact of poverty alleviation program on women and child health in Upper Egypt
Email: mes@aucegypt.edu
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El Sayed, Amr

Amr El Sayed has graduated from the faculty of Science, Cairo University , B.SC. Mathematical Statistics, 1993. He has also completed the pre-requisites for a Masters degree in Demography. He has worked as a research assistant at the Cairo Demographic Center (1993 to 1997). His responsibilities at SRC include the statistical analysis of data. He is also the coordinator of the reproductive Health workshop.
Email: aelsayed@aucegypt.edu
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El Sebaie, Rania
Email: r_alaas@aucegypt.edu
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El Sherif, Sawsan
Sawsan has received her Ph.D. in the foundation of Education from the Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University. She has been working for 15 years in different fields including social development, women and children issues. She has also been designing projects, researches (specialist in qualitative researches), data analysis, training, monitoring & evaluating, and fund raising. She is also a member of the Egyptian association for mental health
Email: sawsan73@aucegypt.edu
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Field Support

Kheir, Esmat

Esmat Kheir has a B.A. in Sociology, and completed the required courses for the M.A. Degree in Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, and has a diploma in Institution Development and Planning in the Arab World, UNESCO. Esmat Kheir attended summer studies in 'Research Design and Planning', University of Chicago, 1976, and participated in a practical course of training on the fabrication, installation, and maintenance of PVC hand-pumps at the University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1989, IDRC. Esmat Kheir has worked in the resettlement schemes in Abis, Alexandria Governorate and Quota, Fayoum Governorate, as a research assistant and community planning and development specialist in the Egyptian American Rural Improvement Services (EARIS), and as a market analyst, Delta Consultants Ltd. He has participated in the design of interview schedules and has supervised data collection, field operations, and data processing on projects conducted by the SRC during the period from 1965 to 2001. Esmat Kheir, in general, is responsible for assisting the SRC Director, the Survey Unit Manager, and Principal Investigators of research projects in undertaking the administrative and operational aspects of fieldwork arrangements. Also, he is responsible for administering SRC car pool, operational supplies, repairs and maintenance of vehicles.
Email: essmat@aucegypt.edu

 

Library

Zakaria, Nadia
Nadia Zakaria graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University. She participated in Family Planning, Women Water and Sanitation, Mortality of Women, Early Marriage, Migration, Earthquake, Schistosomaiasis, Environment, Women and Political Participation and Adolescence surveys. Her skills include very good knowledge of SPSS, word processing, FoxPro, PowerPoint , and the Internet, and a basic idea about Excel. Nadia is currently responsible for the SRC library
Email: nzakaria@aucegypt.edu

 

Computer Support

Abdel Rahman, Ekbal

Ekbal Sameh received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, Fall 1994. She has been working at SRC since 1994 as a Computer Specialist, was promoted to a senior Computer Specialist and then as an IT manager Her responsibilities include the development of database applications, websites, as well as the daily management of the center’s information systems, including databases, operating systems, network, technical support, and PC and server management.
Email: ekbal@aucegypt.edu
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Khalifa, Mahmoud

Email: mkhalifa@aucegypt.edu
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Sayed, Waleed

Graduated from the High computer Management institute, he is currently working as computer specialist. His responsibilities include providing technical support to all SRC members on any  hardware and software problem, data backup and network administration.
Email: waleed-s@aucegypt.edu
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