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Prof. Mayeh Omar

Chairperson for the Specialty Committee of Global Health

Prof. Mayeh Omar is an Associate Professor in International Health Systems at the University of Leeds.

Prof. Omar’s professional interests and experiences range from teaching and research in health systems development and strengthening, strategic health planning, human resources and leadership, policy analysis and development, and training of health professionals - to the design and implementation of health reforms in less developed countries.

Prof. Omar is a senior academic and international health systems/health management consultant, specialized in health systems development with over 40 years of low-middle income countries experience, Prof. Omar spent five years at the Istituto Superior di Sanita’ in Rome, Italy, where he was involved in teaching, research and consultancy work in broad areas of health systems development.

Prof. Omar has worked for the Ministry of Health in Somalia for 12 years, as a teacher at Health Training Institutions, Director of Post-basic Health Training Centre, the Head of Co-ordination, and International Relations Division, and later as the Director of the Department of Planning in the Ministry of Health where he was also responsible for the development and implementation of mental health policies and programmes in the country. He has extensively worked in several countries (i.e., Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Peoples Republic of China, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Sultanate of Oman, Somalia, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe) both on long and short assignments.

Prof. Omar is also involved in supervising and examining postgraduate students at Ph.D. and Master levels. He acted as an internal examiner in Leeds and an external examiner in several universities in the UK and overseas. Prof. Omar has served as a consultant to several international organizations, such as British Council, Carter Centre, DFID, European Union, Global Fund, UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank among others. He has dedicated substantial time to establishing and developing the capacity of training institutions in several low-middle income countries for more than four decades. He trained hundreds of graduates and participants with innovative curricula, educational techniques, and technologies, introducing post-graduate problem-based learning and pioneering continuous professional development (CPD) initiatives for doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other health professionals. His scientific production focuses on policy and planning, human resources development, community health and gender issues, mental health systems, and aspects of the interaction between the health service providers and the end-users

Specialty Committees Members

Dr. Ayat Abu Agela

Dr. Ayat Abu Agela

Dr. Ayat Abu Agela

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Prof. Hamid Soori

Prof. Hamid Soori

Prof. Hamid Soor

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Dr. Ibrahim Bani

Dr. Ibrahim Bani

Dr. Ibrahim Bani

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Dr. Andy Beckingham

Dr. Andy Beckingham

Since developing the world’s first framework for measuring health outcomes in 1993, AB has worked in Public Health for 28 years, 17 of them as a Consultant, was a Director of Public Health, and was lead for London’s end-of-life care strategy. In 2020 he was Project lead for the UK’s national programme to develop comprehensive induction for every new overseas doctor starting work in the National Health Service. AB’s work has included leading or contributing to policy, strategy, development, assessments, epidemiology and health leadership in the UK and at national, State, and institution levels in or with five low- or medium-income countries.

AB is a Faculty Advisor and epidemiology editor for Journal of Public Health, and leads research on the effectiveness and impact of a new midwifery profession which he co-designed in 2011, introducing for the first time in India systematically compassionate respectful, woman-centred midwifery care and choices for women.

In 2018 AB drafted the standards for one country’s medical education and the assessment tool to measure them, and is advising on the reshaping of the country’s midwifery education standards. He developed curriculum in or with three countries and wrote Public Health Master's degree modules for a medium-income country. In late 2018 and early 2019, working at the health ministry and with the medical council of Sudan, he co-drafted new career pathways for the allied health professions, plus a proposed new national CPD system for the medical and other health professions. AB is an active member of the Faculty’s Sudan Special Interest Group, and was awarded the Faculty of Public Health President’s Medal for Outstanding Service to Public Health in 2021.

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