Dr. Zeina Akiki is an epidemiologist and currently is the research manager at Embrace. Dr. Akiki is an assistant Professor of epidemiology at the Lebanese University, faculty of Public Health and faculty of Sciences and at Université Saint Joseph. She obtained her PhD degree in Epidemiology in 2016 from University Paris Sud-Paris Saclay, Doctoral School of Public Health (EDSP) and from the Lebanese University, Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology (EDST) and was granted a very honorable evaluation. She obtained her Master degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Lebanese University. She mainly teaches Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Research methods, and public health courses. Her research interests include respiratory diseases mainly asthma and COPD, and chronic respiratory diseases biomarkers and scales validation. Throughout her studies and work in academia, she has had 10 years of experience in active research in clinical and community settings, and public health. She has presented her research in different national and international conferences, along with multiple publications in many peer-reviewed journals.