Abla Sibai is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB). She is the co-founder of the AUB University for Seniors program and the founding Director of the Center for Studies on Ageing, Lebanon. She is also a Board Member
of HelpAge International, UK and serves on the World Economic Forum and WHO Science Council. Abla has vast experience in researching health and social wellbeing of older people, with a focus on cardiovascular disease in context of wars and socio-political unrest. She spearheaded the national WHO STEP wise Survey on NCD risk factor in the country and the three mapping reviews of policies and programs on Ageing in the Arab region (2007, 2012, 2017). She also led the development of the ‘National Strategy for Older Persons’ in Lebanon (2020-30), for the country’s Ministry of Social Affairs. She has over 200 refereed publications. She is the Laureate of the 2020 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for Africa and Arab States and the recipient of the Foundation of the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in the EMR (2019). Professor Sibai has a BSc in Pharmacy from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in
Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.