Ph.D., Public Health, 1999, University of Wollongong , Australia
MPH, Health Education, 1984, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
B.Sc., Environmental Health, 1982, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Wider structural determinants of health, the application of qualitative research methods, children’s mental health, community development.

Makhoul, J. (2005) Gender, health and poverty in the Arab world. In Suad Joseph (ed) Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Brill Publishers: The Netherlands.

Makhoul, J, and El-Barbir, F, (2006).Obstacles to Health in the Arab World. British Medical Journal (333): 859.

El-Zein, A, Nasrallah, R., Nuwayhid, I., Kai, L. and Makhoul, J. (2006)
Why Do Neighbors Have Different Environmental Priorities?  Analysis of Environmental Risk Perception in a Beirut Neighborhood. Risk Analysis International Journal, 26(2): 1-13.

Makhoul, J.,  Shayboub, R. and Jamal, J.(2004) Violence: the silent determinant of child labor. Journal of Children and Poverty, 10(2): 131-147.

Makhoul, J., Harrison, L. J. (2004) Intercessory wasta and village development in Lebanon.  Arab Studies Quarterly 26(3): 25-41.

Makhoul, J. (2003) A structural perspective on poverty and health inequalities in Lebanon. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 5(1): 25-41.

Makhoul, J., Abi Ghanem, D. and Ghanem, M (2003) An ethnographic study of the consequences of social and structural forces on children: the case of two low income Beirut suburbs. Environment and Urbanization, 15(2): 249- 259.

Makhoul, J. and Harrison, L (2002) Development perspectives: views from rural Lebanon. Development in Practice, 12 (5): 613-623.

Makhoul, J. (2001) Report on the Review of the National Schoolbooks for the Curriculum on Health and Environmental Education WHO-UNESCO-Ministry of Education, Beirut.

Makhoul, J. (December 2005) Schistosomiasis : a view from within a review of  Samiha El Katsha and Susan Watts (2002)Gender, Behavior and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt. The American University of Cairo Press. Published in H-Gender-Mideast list serv.

Makhoul, J. (1999) Development From Below: an exploratory study of the concept and process of development from lay people’s point of view. University of Wollongong, Australia.