CRPH Seminar Series

Contesting Relative Deprivation: The Ras Beirut Well Being Survey

Presented by Afamia Kaddour

Monday, 26 October at 3.00pm in Van Dyck Hall, Room 332

The Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey will examine the relationship between poverty and deprivation, and well-being, in a socially and economically diverse neighborhood of Beirut. The specific aims are to describe the socio-economic profile of the residents of Ras Beirut and to critique relative deprivation in relation to health and well being and propose an alternative informed by the eco-social theory of disease distribution.

Afamia Kaddour is a graduate of FHS with a BSc in Environmental Health and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She also has a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is Research Associate at CRPH, currently directing the Ras Beirut Well Being Survey as part of her dissertation work at Paris XI in social epidemiology.