Our People
Board of Trustees
PRESIDENT
Prof. Friday Okonofua
Centre Leader
Centre for Reproductive Health Research and Innovation
Benin City
Nigeria.
AFRO Representative
VICE-PRESIDENT
Prof. Alberto Amaral
President (former)
Board of Directors
Higher Education Assessment and
Accreditation Agency (A3ES)
Lisbon, Portugal.
CHAIR – REVIEW BOARD
Prof. Suzanne Babich
Associate Dean of Global Health
Professor of Community and Global Health
Director, Doctoral Program in
Global Health Leadership (DrPH)
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University Indianapolis, United States
PAHO (North) Representative
VICE CHAIR – REVIEW BOARD
Prof. Colleen Fisher
(former) Head of School
School of Population and Global Health
University of Western Australia
Past President CAPHIA
Australia
WPRO Representative
Dr. Haitham Bashier
Workforce Capacity Team Leader
Eastern Mediterranean
Public Health Network (EMPHNET)
Amman, Jordan
EMRO Representative
Prof. Bettina Borisch
Chief Executive Officer
World Federation of Public Health Associations
Geneva
Switzerland
Tanushree Kochar
Master of Public Health (Health Research)
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Student Representative
Tom Kuiper
Senior Policy advisor
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Maastricht University
The Netherlands
Prof. Carlos Eduardo Linares Reyes
Chair
Department of Academic Exchange
and International Liaison
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.
PAHO (South) Representative
Prof. Anne Karin Lindahl
Head of Division of Surgery,
Akershus University Hospital.
Professor, Health Care Quality, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety,
University of Oslo,
Norway.
Prof. Egil Marstein
Associate Professor (retired),
Founding leader for the Department of Health Leadership.
BI Norwegian Business School,
Institute of Public Governance
Norway
Assoc Prof. Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul
Mahidol University
Bangkok
Thailand
SEARO Representative
Prof. Francine Watkins
Professor of Public Health
Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor
(Education, Health & Life Sciences)
Department of Public Health, Policy & Systems
The University of Liverpool
United Kingdom
EURO Representative
Office
Review Board
Scientific Council
Yazan Alwadi
PhD in Environmental Health
T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Univeristy,
United States of America
Appeals Board
WORKING GROUPS
Students & Young Professionals
Tanushree Kochar
Master of Public Health (Health Research)
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Student Representative
Entesar Omar Hasaballa
Executive Master Public Health Emergency Management.
CDC Field Epidemiology Training Program Coordinator
Qatar
Simone Boles
Master of Public Health
(Global Public Health),
Rollins School of Public Health,
Emory University
United States of America
Yazan Alwadi
PhD in Environmental Health
T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Univeristy,
United States of America
Kaosisochukwu Nzeagwu
Master of Public Health
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP),
France
Dr. Meri Mkhitaryan
PhD in Medical Sciences
(Public Health)
Yerevan State Medical University,
Yerevan,
Armenia
Leadership & Workforce Preparedness
Prof. Suzanne Babich
Associate Dean of Global Health
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Director, Doctoral Program in
Global Health Leadership (DrPH)
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University, United States
Prof. Bettina Borisch
Chief Executive Officer
World Federation of Public Health Associations
Geneva
Switzerland
Prof. Emma Wilson
Professor of Public Health
Nottingham Centre for Public Health and Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
Assoc. Prof. Khalifa Elmusharaf
MPH Director
University of Birmingham
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Assoc Prof. Julie Saunders
Head of School
School of Population and Global Health
University of Western Australia
Perth
Australia
Assoc Prof. Miguel Reina Ortiz
Associate Director, Doctoral Program in Global Health Leadership (DrPH)
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University,
United States
Quality Improvement
Prof. Rohit Ramaswamy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gillings School of Global Public Health Public Health Leadership Program
Department of Maternal and Child Health
United States
Prof. Alberto Amaral
President (former)
Board of Directors
Higher Education Assessment and
Accreditation Agency (A3ES)
Lisbon, Portugal.
Prof. Silvije Šegulja
Vice-Dean for Quality and
International Cooperation
Faculty of Health Studies
University of Rijeka,
Croatia
Dr. Shahd Osman
Director of Bilateral and Multilateral relations
International Health Directorate/Federal Ministry of Health
Khartoum, Sudan
Decolonisation & Indigenous Health
Prof. Friday Okonofua
Centre Leader
Centre for Reproductive Health Research and Innovation
Benin City
Nigeria
Dr Irtiza Qureshi
Assistant Professor in Public Health
School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
Nottingham,
United Kingdom
Assoc Prof. Miguel Reina Ortiz
Associate Director, Doctoral Program in Global Health Leadership (DrPH)
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University,
United States
Reviewers
Prof. Ledua Tamani
Head of Department & Programme Coordinator,
Fiji National University,
Suva, Fiji
Prof. Piotr Romaniuk
Head of the Department of Public Health Policy and the Department of Health Policy,
School of Public Health in Bytom,
Medical Unviersity of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Khalifa Elmusharaf
MPH Director
University of Birmingham
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Prof. John Evans
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health (retired)
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard University
United States of America
Dr. Shahd Osman
Director of Bilateral and Multilateral relations
International Health Directorate/Federal Ministry of Health
Khartoum, Sudan
Dr Huda Hakim Abd
Elrahman Hakim
Technical specialist
International Academy of Public Health
Amman, Jordan
Prof. George Mutwiri
Executive Director
School of Public Health
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Prof. Dambadarjaa Davaalkham
Dean
School of Public Health
Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences
Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia
Dr Zubair Kabir
Senior Lecturer
School of Public Health
University College Cork (UCC)
Cork
Ireland
Prof. Hongmei Nan
Professor of Epidemiology
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University,
United States
Assoc Prof. Costas Christophi
Department Chair
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Cyprus Univeristy Of Technology
Cyprus
Assoc Prof. Julie Saunders
Head of School
School of Population and Global Health
University of Western Australia
Perth
Australia
Prof. Emma Wilson
Professor of Public Health
Nottingham Centre for Public Health and Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
Assoc Prof. Miguel Reina Ortiz
Associate Director, Doctoral Program in Global Health Leadership (DrPH)
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University,
United States
Additional Prof. Arathi Rao
Head of the Department
Global Public Health Policy & Governance
Prasanna School of Public Health
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
India
Prof. Petko Salchev
Professor of Social Medicine and Health Care Management
National Center of Public Health and Analyses
Ministry of Health
Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Jiali Han
Professor and Chair,
Department of Epidemiology
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Indiana University, United States
Prof. Charlotte Jeavons
Head
School of Human Sciences
University of Greenwich
Royal Naval College
London, United Kingdom
Assoc Prof. Monica Hunsberger
MPH Programme Director
University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy,
Institute of Medicine,
Sweden
Prof. Richard Cooper
Professor of Public Health and Social Pharmacy
Division of Population Health
School of Medicine and Population Health
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prof. Geoff Setswe
Managing Director for Research Implementation,
The Aurum Institute
Johannesburg,
South Africa
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