Faculty

Muin Khoury

Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology


Education

BS Biology, Chemistry, American University of Beirut, 1975
MD School of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 1979
PhD Human Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 1985

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Bio

Dr. Khoury is the founding Director of the Office of Public Health Genomics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Office was formed in 1998 to assess the public health implications of the Human Genome Project. Dr Khoury served as the only director of this office until his retirement in 2024. During his 40-year career in public health, he led numerous national and international initiatives to help translate advances in genomics and other technologies into effective and ethical interventions that can improve population health and reduce health inequities. Throughout his career, he helped identify evidence-based genomic testing, family health history, and other genomic applications that can save lives and prevent disease, inform and educate public health, healthcare providers and the general public, about evidence-based genomic and precision health applications, and help integrate evidence-based applications into clinical practice and public health programs. Dr. Khoury has published extensively in the fields of genetic epidemiology, public health genomics and precision public health. Dr Khoury is also the author of 4 books in genetic epidemiology and public health genomics. He is widely cited in the scientific literature and has won multiple scientific and service awards. He also serves on the editorial boards of multiple scientific journals.

Research Interests

Genetic epidemiology, public health genomics, precision public health

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Additive Value of Polygenic Risk Score to Family History for Type 2 Diabetes Prediction: Results From the All of Us Research Database.
(2025 Feb 1)
Diabetes Care 48(2): 212-219
Drzymalla E, Raffield L, Kolor K, Koyama A, Moonesinghe R, Pavkov ME, Spracklen CN, Khoury MJ

A Scoping Review of Electronic Health Records-Based Screening Algorithms for Familial Hypercholesterolemia.
(2024 Dec)
JACC Adv 3(12): 101297
Osei J, Razavi AC, Otchere B, Bonful G, Akoto N, Akyea RK, Qureshi N, Coronado F, Moonesinghe R, Kolor K, Mensah GA, Sperling L, Khoury MJ

Family History of Arthritis, Osteoporosis, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Risk of These Conditions Among US Adults.
(2024 Dec)
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 76(12): 1733-1743
Rasooly D, Moonesinghe R, Fallon E, Barbour KE, Khoury MJ

Navigating epigenetic epidemiology publications.
(2023 Nov 22)
Epigenetics Commun 3(8):
Yu W, Drzymalla E, Gyorfy MF, Khoury MJ, Sun YV, Gwinn M

Epigenome-wide association studies of prenatal maternal mental health and infant epigenetic profiles: a systematic review.
(2023 Dec 7)
Transl Psychiatry 13(1): 377
Drzymalla E, Crider KS, Wang A, Marta G, Khoury MJ, Rasooly D

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