Organizing Committee

Salim Adib, MD, Dr.PH / IEA Co-Chair

Professor of Public Health Practice, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ibrahim Bou Orm, MD, MPH

Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University - Edinburgh, UK and Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, UK

Rachel Btaiche, MPH

Focal Person for the National Observatory on Drugs and Drugs Addiction (NODDA), Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon

Mary Deeb, PhD / LEA Co-Chair

Associate Professor, Gilbert and Rose-Mary Chaghoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

John Fayyad, MD (In Memoriam)

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Saint Georges Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy and Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon

Rasha Hamra Ambriss, PharmD, MPH, Dr. Health

Director of Public Relations & Health Education Departments and Clinical Trials Regulations Focal Point Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon

Ghinwa El Hayek, MPH

Project Coordinator, National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Aziza Khalidi, D.Sc

Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Islamic University of Lebanon



Regional Advisory Committee

Jawad Al-Diwan

Iraq

Mohannad AlNsour, MD, MSc, PhD

Executive Director, The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Amman, Jordan

Ahmad Al Shatti

Consultant, Public Health (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Health, State of Kuwait

Ali Saeed Al-Zahrani, MBBS, DFE, MPH, PhD

Principal Clinical scientist/Senior Consultant, Executive Director, Gulf Center for Cancer Control and prevention, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Henrique Barros - MD, PhD (IEA President)

President, Institute of Public Health University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Habiba Ben-Romdhane

Tunisia

Fahmy Charl

Egypt

Rana Hajjeh, MD

Director, Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, WHO/EMRO, Cairo, Egypt

Kourosh Holakouie-Naieni, PhD

Vice-president, Iranian Epidemiological Association Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Mohamed Hsairi

Tunisia

Alireza Mosavi Jarrahi, MSPH, PhD

Associate Prof. of Epidemiology Medical School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Editor-in-Chief, Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention President, Asia Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention

Arash Rashidian, MD, PhD

Director of Information, Evidence and Research, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt



Scientific Committee



Samira Hamid Abdelrahman, MBBS, MD

Professor of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Dean, Blue Nile National Institute for Communicable Diseases (BNNICD) University of Gezira, Sudan

Rafic Baddoura, MD

Department of Rheumatology, Hotel Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon

Hyam N. Bashour, PhD

Part time Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health, Damascus University and AL Sham Private University, Damascus, Syria

Oona Campbell

United Kingdom

Hani Dimassi, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Randah R. Hamadeh, DPhil

Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

Georges Karam, MD

Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Saint Georges Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy and Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon

Ahmad Mandil, MD, DrPH - Chairman

Coordinator, Research Development & Innovation, WHO/EMRO, Cairo, Egypt

Ehsan Mostafavi, DVM, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Ghina Mumtaz, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Randa Mohammed S. Nooh, MBBS, MSc (Epidemiology),PhD

Consultant Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Member of the Consultative Committee for Public Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Pascale Salameh, PharmD, MPH, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology. Lebanese University Chair, Scientific Committee. Lebanese Order of Pharmacists

Nagah Salim, M.B.B.Ch, M.Sc, MD

Assistant program director of community medicine residency training, consultant community medicine, Primary health care Corporation (PHCC); Professor of public health and preventive medicine, Cairo University; Member in the Graduate Medical education committee at Hamad Medical Corporation; Chair of IRB at PHCC in Qatar

Rachid Salmi, MD, PhD

Professor of Public Health at Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Abla Sibai, BScPhm, PhD - Co-Chair

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Loubna Tayyara, MD, MSc

Consultant in Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, Master in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Associated Professor at the Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Public Health, Lebanon

Nelly Ziade Zoghbi, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCP

Assistant Professor of Rheumatology, Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital and Saint-Joseph University Beirut, Lebanon