Zeinab A. Khadr zeinabk@aucegypt.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1997 Sociology (Demography) Dissertation: Living Arrangements and Social Support Systems of the Older Population in Egypt MA B.A Cairo University, 1985 Statistics (Demography) Faculty of Economics and Political Science Department of Statistics Thesis: The Reliability of Some Survey Data: A case Study of Egypt Cairo University, 1980 (Statistics) Faculty of Economics and Political Science Department of Statistics. EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics, Cairo University, 2004-present Associate Research Professor, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, 2004-present Assistant Research Professor, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, 1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics, Cairo University, 1997-2004 Research Assistant, The EVALUATION Project, Population studies Center, University of Michigan, 1995-1996 Research Assistant, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, 1981-1991 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT & EXPERIENCE
Statistical consultant, for the Arab Human Development Report UNDP, 2007-2008 Associate Research Professor, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, 2004-present Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics, Cairo University, 2004-present Sampling consultant, National Center for Social and Criminology Research in Egypt, 2000-present Assistant Research Professor, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, 1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics, Cairo University, 1997-2004 Visiting Professor, Cairo demographic Center, 1998-2001 Research Assistant, The EVALUATION Project, Population studies Center, University of Michigan, 1995-1996 Research Assistant, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, 1981-1991 Research Assistant, RAPID project, National Population Council, Egypt, 1983-1989 Research Assistant, Department of Monitoring and Evaluation, Population and Family Planning Board, Egypt, 1980-1983 SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS - Population Council Fellowship, 1996-1997 - Andrew Mellon Fellowship (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), 1992-1993 - Peace Fellowship ( USAID), 1991-1992 TEACHING EXPERIENCE - Demography : Faculty of Economics and Political Science 1985-2004 - Sampling : Faculty of Economics and Political Science 2000-2004
- Descriptive Statistics : Faculty of Economics and Political Science 1997-2004 - Multivariate analysis : Faculty of Economics and Political Science 2000-2004 - Health equity : The social Research Center (AUC) 2005-2010 - Research Methodology : The social Research Center/AUC 2001-2010 - Population and Development : Cairo Demographic Center 1998-2001 Inter-relationship
CONFERENCE PAPERS (LATEST) 2008 With Nour el Dien, Mohamed and Hamed, Ramadan. Estimating an area-based physical deprivation index in an urban setting using GIS: Case study of Cairo, Egypt? Paper presented as a poster at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA. 2005 With Yount, Kathryn. Differences in Self-reported Disability among Older Women and Men in Ismailia, Egypt. Paper presented at IUSSP International Conference, Tours, France, July 18-23, 2005 2002 Perceived Morbidity and Disability among Older Egyptian: levels and correlates. Paper presented as a poster at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Atlanta, GA. 2001 Older women in Egypt: their living arrangement and social status in the family. Paper presented at Expert Group Meeting on Population Ageing and Development, Valleta, Malta 2000 With El Zeini, Laila Families and Household: Headship and Coresidence. Paper presented at Cairo Papers Annual Seminar held in Cairo, May 6-7,2000 1999 Married women with unintended pregnancies in Egypt: Attributes and circumstances Egyptian Studies in Family Planning, Institute for statistical studies and computer Science. 1999 With Farid, Iman. Who is the head? An Anthropo-demographic perspective on female headship. Paper presented at the IUSSP committee on Anthropological Demography seminar on Social Categories, Cairo September 5-8 1998 With Rashad, Hoda. The Demography of the Arab region: New challenges and opportunities, Paper presented at the Population Challenges in the Middle East & north Africa: Towards the Twenty First Century, cosponsored by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries. PUBLICATIONS Rashad, Hoda and Khadr, Zeinab (forthcoming) 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. Khadr, Zeinab, Hoda Rashad, Susan Watts and Mohamed Salem (forthcoming) Health inequities: Social determinants and policy implications in I. Nuwayhid, M. Khawaja, S. Jabbour and R. Giacaman (eds) in Public Health in the Arab World. Cambridge Press.
Zeinab Khadr, Nour El Dien, Mohamed and Hamed, Ramadan (2010). Using GIS in Constructing Area-based Physical Deprivation Index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Habitat International. Khadr, Zeinab. 2009. Population Theories. In: H.Zaky (ed): Introduction to Demography and Its Applications. The International Population Council, 2010 (Arabic). Zeinab Khadr (2009). Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequity in Maternal Health Indicators in Egypt: 1995-2005. International Journal for Equity in Health. Yount, Kathryn and Khadr, Zeinab. (2008). Gender, Social Change, and Living Arrangements among Older Egyptians during the 1990s. Population Research and Policy Review 27(1). Yount, Kathryn and Khadr, Zeinab. (2006). A Biosocial Model of Medication Use among Older Women and Men in Ismailia, Egypt. Journal of Biosocial Science38:557-603 El Tawila, Sahar and Khadr, Zeinab. (2004), Patterns of Marriage and Family Formation among youth on Egypt. National Population Council, Research Management Unit and Center for Information and Computer Systems, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Caio University, Cairo Egypt. Khadr, Zeinab. 2004. Working in Old Age: Attributes and Circumstances. Al Nahda The Renaissance, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo Egypt Khadr, Zeinab. 2004 Work and retirement behavior in Old Age: The Experience of Older Egyptian Men. The Egyptian Population and Family Planning Review, Institute Of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo, Egypt Rashad, Hoda, and Khadr, Zeinab 2002. The Demography of the Arab region: New challenges and opportunities, in Human Capital: Population economics in the Middle East. Sirageldin, Ismail, (ed) An Economic Research Forum Edition, The American University in Cairo Press. Khadr, Zeinab and El Zeini, Laila. 2001 Families and Household: Headship and Coresidence. Cairo Papers in Social Science, Hopkins, Nichols( ed.), Vol 24(1/2) Cairo: AUC Press. The American University in Cairo. Khadr, Zeinab, 1999 Married women with unintended pregnancies in Egypt: Attributes and circumstances The Egyptian Population and Family Planning Review, Institute Of Statistical Studies and Research, December 1999, Cairo,Egypt. Hermalin AI; Khadr Z; Entwisle B. 1996. Availability of family planning services: developing a representative picture from Demographic and Health Surveys. Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center [CPC], Evaluation Project. Hermalin AI; Entwisle B; Khadr Z. 1996. Reweighting DHS data to serve multiple perspectives. Studies in Family Planning. Mar-Apr;27(2):88-97. Sayed, Hussein Abd El Aziz, and Khadr, Zeinab 1985. The reliability of some survey data: case study of Egypt CPS, Proceeding of the annual meeting of the Cairo Demographic Center. PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (SELECTED) 2001-2010. How to summarize survey data presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 2001-2010. Research questions and statistical hypotheses presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 2004-2010. Multivariate Analysis: Determining risk factors for a quantitative variable presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt, 2004-2010. Multivariate Analysis: Determining risk factors for a qualitative variable presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 2001-2007. Population Dynamics presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 2001-2007. Population Projections: Basic concepts and Models presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt
2001-2010. Research Process presented the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 2001-2010. Formulating Research questions presented at the Research methodology workshop Research Methods for Policy Formulation and Evaluation: with special application to Population and Health concerns in the Arab countries. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 1999-2010. Monitoring Progress in Reduction of Maternal Mortality presented at the eighth round of the Reproductive Health in the Arab countries workshop From Science to Action: Reproductive Health in the Arab countries, A specialist workshop. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt 1999-2010. Maternal mortality Context presented at the sixth round of the Reproductive Health in the Arab countries workshop From Science to Action: Reproductive Health in the Arab countries, A specialist workshop. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt. 2010. Gender and Intergenerational Transfers in Egypt, Presented at the conference on Aging, Family Relations, and Health, Beirut, Lebanon October 19-21. 2010 Social priorities in the area of health inequity presented at UNDP meeting on Iraq Women Health and Social Status Survey : First Consultation Workshop, Synthesis and Orientation 2-3 March 2010. Monitoring socioeconomic inequity in maternal health indicators in Egypt: 1995-2005. UNFPA meeting on Maternal Health Workshop,Cairo, Egypt April 11-15 2009. Improving health equity, reducing poverty: lessons from a field trial presented at the session Social innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Improving health, reducing poverty: evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Innovating for the health of all the Global Forum for Health Research, Havana, Cuba 16-20 November 2005. Gender and Intergenerational Transfers in Egypt, Reproductive Health Working Group Annual Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon 2004. Gender and Medication Use Among Older Adults in Ismailia, Egypt, Rollins School of Public health, Emory University 2000. with El Zeini, Laila Families and Household: Headship and Coresidence. Paper presented at Cairo Papers Annual Seminar held in Cairo, May 6-7,2000
1999 with Iman Farid. Who is the head? An Anthropo-demographic perspective on female headship. Paper presented at the IUSSP committee on Anthropological Demography seminar on Social Categories, Cairo September 5-8 1998. with Hoda Rashad The Demography of the Arab region: New challenges and opportunities, Paper presented at the Population Challenges in the Middle East & north Africa: Towards the Twenty First Century, cosponsored by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries. 1997. Social support of older women in Egypt, Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC RESEARCH/COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES ONGOING/COMPLETED DURING LAST 10 YEARS Principal Investigator (Co-P.I. Sahar El Tawila, Ph.D.): Marriage and Family Formation among the Youth in Egypt, The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo 2001 Local P. I.: (P.I. Kathryn Yount, Ph.D.): Validation of Gender Differences in Disability and Care: NIH R03 AG21707-01 2003. Project period 09/01/02 08/31/03 Local P.I: (P.I. Kathryn Yount, Ph.D.): Validation of Gender Differences in Disability and Care: NIH R03 AG21707-01 2003. No cost extension. Project period 09/01/03 08/31/04 Principal Investigator: Urban Inequity: UN Habitat and The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Project period 01/05/2006-31/5/2007 Principal Investigator: Urban Inequity: UN Habitat and The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. No cost extension Project preriod 1/6/2007-31/4/2008 Principal Investigator: Social Determinants of health and health equity in the Arab region: WHO ( EMRO)- The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Project period: 01/03/2007-30/11/2007 Principal Investigator: Organization of a seminar on health inequity: Current knowledge and new approaches: IUSSP- The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Project period: 01/01/2008-31/03/2008 Principal Investigator: Health Equity and integrated health and poverty alleviation policies: the Ford Foundation- The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Project period: 01/07/2008-30/06/2011
Chair of Scientific Panel of the International Union for Scientific Studies on Population (IUSSP) on Health equity and policy in the Arab World) 2007-2009