Dr. Anfal Adawi
Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Anfal Adawi is an assistant professor of economics at the Lebanese American University (LAU). She holds a PhD in health economics from York University, Canada, where she also earned her MA and BA in economics. Her research focuses on health economics, aging and human development, with publications in Canadian Public Policy and the CRDCN Research-Policy Snapshot.
Before joining LAU, she taught health economics, statistics and development at York University, and contributed to research projects on retirement, health and well-being. Her current work examines how retirement transitions shape life satisfaction and health outcomes, with the goal of informing evidence-based policymaking in aging societies.
Teaching Interests
- Microeconomics
- Health economics
- Economics of aging
- Applied econometrics and data analysis
- Behavioral economics
Research Interests
- Health economics
- Economics of aging
- Public economics
- Human development
- Behavioral economics
- Applied microeconometrics
- Labor economics
Selected Publications
Effect of retirement on Life Satisfaction in Canada: Evidence from the 2008–2009 Canadian Community Health Survey–HealthyAging (with Ida Ferrara and Sadia M Malik), Canadian Public Policy, Volume 49, Issue S1, 2023, pp. 48–75.
Women-only cardiac rehabilitation delivery around the world (with Karam Turk-Adawi, Marta Supervia, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Sherry Grace), Heart, Lung, and Circulation, Volume 30, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 135–143.
Policy Publications
Effect of Retirement on Life Satisfaction in Canada: Research-Policy Snapshot (with Ida Ferrara and Sadia M Malik), CRDCN Research-Policy Snapshot, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2024.