Hoda Rashad

Organizations: Universities

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Director and Research Professor

Hoda Rashad

1949

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


American University in Cairo

Social Research Center

Cairo

Egypt

hrashad@aucegypt.edu

Education


PhD, Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, 1977.

MSc, Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1974.

BSc, Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1971.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Demographic Analysis

Development Studies

Evaluation of Impact of Health Interventions

Gender Issues

Reproductive Health

 

WORK HISTORY


Director and Research Professor of the Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo, 1995-Present.

Chief Technical Advisor, The United Nations, Manager of the Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD), 1993-1995.

Associate, The Population Council, Regional Office for West Asia and North Africa, 1989-1993.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, Social, Humanity, and Population Science Council, The Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research & Technology.

Member of the Task Force of the World Health Organization flagship report on the Health of the People of Africa.

 

Productions and Works


“Research Practices, A Question of Values”. Knowledge on the Move: Emerging Agendas for Development-oriented Research (Henk Molenaar, Louk Box and Rutger Engelhard Eds). Leiden: International Development Publications, 2009.

"Closing the Gap in a Generation", a co-authored report of WHO Commission of Social Determinants of Health, 2008.

Family in the Middle East-Ideational Changes in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. (co-authored) Routledge, London and New York. 2008.

AWARDS


Founding member of the Scientific Review Board of “Demographic Research". The first peer reviewed online journal of the population sciences published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (1999-present).