Martine Elbejjani, PhD is a neuroepidemiologist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine and the Clinical Research Institute at the Faculty of Medicine at AUB. Her research focuses on studying the interplay of brain, cognitive, and mental health changes in older age, with a specific focus in identifying common determinants and risk trajectories across the life-course. She has worked  on several international cohort studies on mental health and cognitive aging and has been involved in key efforts to establish such research studies in Lebanon. She is the director of the Research Education Unit at the Clinical Research Institute, a unit centered on building research capacity and infrastructure through educational and training activities; she is also the director of faculty and medical research academic programs at the Faculty of Medicine. She holds a BSc and MSc in psychiatric genetics and a PhD in epidemiology from McGill University (Canada), with a joint doctoral training at the neuro-epidemiology unit of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Prior to joining AUB, she completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuro-epidemiology at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIA, NIH, USA).