Rima Habib

Professor of Environmental and Occupational health, and chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the American University of Beirut (AUB). Habib holds a Master of Public Health, a Master of Occupational Health and Safety, and a Ph.D in Public Health and Community Medicine from the University of New South Wales. She has led research on environmental and work-related exposures and the health of displaced, refugee, and migrant populations. She served as chair/co-chair of the Technical Committee on Gender and Work in the International Ergonomics Association for 9 years between 2009 and 2018. Habib was awarded the Occupational Health and Safety Section’s International Award of the American Public Health Association in November 2017; and was elected a fellow of the renowned Collegium Ramazzini in 2017.

Dr. Habib's research activities and contributions have focused on the following research themes: (1) Work-related exposures and human health; (2) Ecosystem approaches to human health in poor rural communities; and (3) Health of displaced, refugee and migrant populations. Her research - doubly focused on marginalized workers and unrecognized labor - aims to highlight the intersections of work, gender, environment, and health in Lebanon and the Arab region, often pushing beyond the boundaries of orthodoxy within her field.