Research Interests and Grants

2018-2019       Local Community Experiences of and Responses to Conflict Induced Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey)

AHRC-ESRC Project: AH/P005438/1

This study has been approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee (Project ID): 9813/001

2017-2019       Genetics of ethnic populations: Circassians and Chechans (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge collaboration on mitochondrial DNA in Jordan with Dr Gavin Kelsey, The Epigenetics Programme; research with Kazima from Russia)

2017-2018       Cognition and We Love Reading model

Research with Brown University. Professor Dima Amso

2017 -2018      Human migration, research with University of California Berkeley with Professor Rasmus Neilson

Oct 2016          Empowerment of Jordanian women academics: reality, achievments, requirements and challenges

coPI

Funded by 101,085 USD from MEPI grant

2017-2018       Effect of “We Love Reading” on mental cognition

                        Collaboration with Brown University

2016-2018       Randomness and Providence

Collaborator Kelly Clark

Funded by John Templeton Foundation

2016-2018       Quality management systems, Received a grant from FHC360/USAID PI,

50,000 JD

2016-2018       Conducting workshops for women scientists in Jordan, research with Harvard University Dana Farber Institute Professor Navid Madani

2016                MEPI coPI grant AJWA

2015-2020       The research ethics education program in Jordan: Train the next generation of researchers in the Middle East in public health research and responsible conduct of research through graduate level training and mentoring, mentor, funded by grant from NIH/FIC,

2015-2019       Effect of We Love Reading program on reading with comprehension in children in Jordan, RAMP/RTI

PI

Funded by $2,000,000 USD from USAID

2015-2018       Epigentics of trauma and youth student exchange, research with Harvard University Public health Professor Bernardo Lemos

    1.        Effect of We Love Reading program on reading attitudes of children and parents

attitudes toward reading and school

PI

Funded by 1,500,000 USD from UNICEF

2015 – 2017    Science Teaching in Contemporary Islamic Societies, collaborator with the       Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill, funded by partnership development grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada

2015-2017       Measuring the health and wellbeing impacts of a scalable program of psychosocial intervention for refugee youth

Collaboration with Catherine Panter Brick, Anthropology department, Yale University

Funded by 295,131 Pounds from Welcome Trust R2HC

2015-2017       Mobility grant Erasmus plus with Vilnius University, Lithunai 

2015-2017       grant from the Wellcome Trust and Yale university, PI

70,000 USD

2015-2016       Reading and Empathy

PI, Funded by 65,000 USD from Fetzer Institute

2015-               Epigenetic's of transgenerational trauma in three Syrian cohorts, co PI,

Yale University, Hashemite University, Florida University

2014 -2016     US Embassy grant for JPAL/MIT workshop, 10,000 USD

2013-               Identification of Genes of complex diseases in consinguous families using

genomics and exome sequencing

Collaboration with Richard Lifton, PhD, Genetics department, Yale University

2015                Quality Management Systems

                        PI, Funded by grant of 15,000 JD from FHC360/USAID

2015                US embassy grant public office Mafraq library, PI, 6,500 JD

2015                Grant from FHC360/USAID quality management systems, PI

15,000 JD

2014                Psychosocial status of women in the We Love Reading program

2014- 2017      Received a grant from LitWorld, PI, 13,000 USD 2014 and 20,000 USD 

Collaboration with Yale University

2014-2017       The PEER Award Jordan - Project 3-47: Three Circles of Alemat: creating collaborative multicultural networks for women in the sciences, PI: Rana Dajani, Jordan Society for Scientific Research 165,000 USD

2014 – 2015    Received a grant from Fetzer Institute, PI, 45,000 USD

2014–2015      Muslim responses to Sciences big questions, collaborator, funded by John Templeton Foundation

2014                Reading and Empathy: studying the effect of readin on empathy in children

                        Collaboration with University of Chicago Chile Neurosuite

2014                Eisenhower fellowship to research women in science challenges

2013-2015       Islam and Science: an educational approach, collaborator, funded by John Templeton Foundation

2013-2014       Reading and environmental awareness

                        PI, Funded by 150,000 USD from USAID

2012-2013       Received a grant from Ecodit/USAID for 150,000 USD 2012-2013

2012-2013       Received a grant from Middle Eastern partnership initiative (MEPI), PI, 75,000$

2011-2013      Polymorphisms of Clotting factors in genetically isolated populations in Jordan, funded by 3285 JD from Hashemite University

2011-2012       Received grant from the USA public affairs section, 13,500 USD,

2010-2012       Developing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Partnerships across the Curriculum, funded by 880,000 EU from EU from TEMPUS IV

2010                Identification of virulence factors in Cryptosporidium

Joint member, Funded by 75,000 SEK from SIDA, Sweeden

2010-2012       Biodiesel Fuel Production in a Packed Bioreactor using Immobilized Lipase Enzyme Produced by Bacillus sp. Isolated from Raw Petrol

Joint member

Funded by 71,000 JD from Ministry of Higher Education, Jordan

2009-2012       Anthropological, epidemiological and genetic studies on genetically isolated populations in Jordan

Funded by 60,000 JD from Higher council of science and technology, Jordan

2009-2012       Genome wide association studies on a genetically isolated population (Chechans) in Jordan in order to identify novel risk factors for Type II diabetes

Funded by 75,000 JD from Funded by King Hussein institute for biotechnology and cancer, Jordan

2009-2010       The incidence of complex diseases in genetically isolated populations in Jordan Funded by 5,000 JD from Hashemite University

2006-2008       Common molecular markers between obesity and intrinsic asthma in humans, Funded by 7,000 JD from Hashemite University