Brigitte Khoury, PhD, was awarded a Presidential Citation excellent and persistent efforts as a change agent in health, human rights and international awareness.
Khoury has been actively contributing to global mental health and well-being for over two decades. She serves as a member of APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology and on the board of APA’s International Psychology (Div. 52). As research faculty at the American University of Beirut, Director of the Arab Regional Center for Research, Training and Policy Making in Mental Health, and co-founder of the Lebanese Psychological Association, she has been a positive and significant influence on broad issues such as refugee mental health, personality traits across the globe, patterns of attachment, sexuality, reproductive health and mental health classification. (Her center is an International Field Study Center for the WHO ICD-11 development.) Khoury was recently honored by the Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health for changing the way LGBT people in Lebanon see themselves, and how others perceive and treat them in the health care system and beyond. An advocate for human rights, Khoury is building capacity through her remarkable research, mentoring of students, faculty and citizens, and her seminal role in organization building.