Having joined USEK in 2015 as a lecturer, Souheil Hallit is currently an associate professor and Head of the Department of Research at the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences. He is an expert in statistics, including bivariate analysis, multivariable analysis, survival analysis, validation and psychometric properties analyses.

His research interests focus on public health and epidemiology. Much of his work has been on validating existing scales and/or developing new ones in Arabic to facilitate the diagnosis and screening of symptoms of diseases among Arabic-speaking populations. In addition, Souheil has published 572 peer-reviewed articles/chapters (as of December 2023) on various public health issues, like eating disorders, pharmacy, psychology, psychiatry, smoking, etc. He has also presented multiple conference papers both as abstracts/posters and oral presentations in local and international conferences. Additionally, he has directed and co-directed 45 thesis projects for medical and PhD students.

In 2022, he won the first prize in the Innovation and Research award event organized by the USEK Higher Center for Research. Two of his articles were among the top cited articles in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care (Wiley Publisher) in 2019-2020.

For more information about his research, please click below:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FuRd3V8AAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Souheil_Hallit

EDUCATION

• PhD in Public Health and Intervention Epidemiology, Université Victor Ségalen Bordeaux 2 – France
• Master in Public Health, Research and Pharmaco-epidemiology, Lebanese University – Lebanon
• Master in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, American University of Beirut (AUB) – Lebanon
• Pharm.D. degree, Lebanese American University (LAU) – Lebanon
• BS in Pharmacy, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) – Lebanon