{"id":2456,"date":"2020-07-16T20:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/?page_id=2456"},"modified":"2020-07-16T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:47:20","slug":"rima-afifi-lebanon-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/?page_id=2456","title":{"rendered":"Rima Afifi, Lebanon, Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rima Afifi is a professor and Interim Head in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa; and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB).&nbsp;&nbsp; Her research and practice falls into four broad categories: youth wellbeing, protective factors among youth, tobacco control, and intervention evaluation.&nbsp; She advocates for a focus on the social and structural determinants of well-being to promote inclusion, equity, and justice. Whenever possible, Rima uses methods of Community Based Participatory Research which give marginalized communities voice and opportunities for self determination; engages multiple disciplines to widen the perspectives on any issue, and emphasizes knowledge transfer of research to practice and policy. She has authored over 80 peer- reviewed publications; and has engaged in extensive professional practice in the Arab region.&nbsp; She is co-author of the 2016 <em>Lancet<\/em> Commission report on the Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, and contributed to the <em>Arab Human Development Report<\/em> on youth published in 2016.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rima Afifi is a professor and Interim Head in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa; and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB).&nbsp;&nbsp; Her research and practice falls into four broad categories: youth wellbeing, protective factors among youth, tobacco control, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2457,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2456","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2456\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arab-adolescents.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}