Public Health Emergency Management

Dr. Randa Nooh

Sahar Motallebi graduated as medical doctor from Tehran University and received a Master of “International Public Health from Lund University. She also studied Health district planning and priority setting and resource allocation” and “Disease Mapping” at the Swiss Tropical Institute, “Disaster Recovery” at Copenhagen University and “Civil Conflict Transformation” at Network University. Since 2001, she has worked with various UN agencies (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP), research institutes, Ministries and NGOs in Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden on humanitarian and development programs. Her work has been in various level of service provision, designing and management of multi million dollars project in recovery phase, as well as evidence generating for influencing policy makers of different countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic she contributed in research studies on impact of mask wearing as an effective preventive measure for COVID-19 mortality and comparative study of over 50 countries` COVID-19 strategies.  

Ayman A. El-Badry, M.B.B.Ch., M.Sc., M.D, is a Professor and consultant of Clinical Microbiology - Medical Parasitology, Department of Clinical Microbiology at the College of Medicine & King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Professor and consultant of Medical Parasitology Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

I have worked in parallel as a university staff member of medical parasitology for over 25 years in 5 different universities. I was the head of the diagnostic and research unit of parasitic diseases (DRUP) for over 5 years. I initiated a training program in molecular medical parasitology research. He was the founder of the Lab of Molecular Medical Parasitology (LMMP) in 2014 and head of the LMMP for the first 3years. I have been a visiting scholar in the USA, Denmark, UK, Spain, Germany.

I obtained my M.B.B.Ch in 1990, M.Sc of Basic Medical Sciences (Medical Parasitology – Bacteriology) in 1996, and M.D in Medical Parasitology in 2000, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. I have over 100 scientific papers and research projects (published or presented). I have worked in different international labs with renowned specialists in the field of molecular parasitology and have created an extensive network between his labs and international labs.

For more than 25 years, I have been teaching medical parasitology for undergraduate & postgraduate medical and health students. Supervised many post-graduate student theses. Member of multiple scientific committees, scientific societies, and scientific conference committees. Editorial board of national and international journals. M research interests are human parasitic diseases, particularly, neglected parasitic diseases. His research is primarily focused on molecular diagnostics and genotypic variance analysis of human parasites that have a great impact on human health.

He also has an ongoing interest in microbiomes, novel therapeutics of Parasitic Diseases, and vector & vector-borne diseases. M academic interests are in medical education, developing effective teaching pedagogy, curriculum & course design, and methods of evaluation.

Dr. Indrajit Pal is Assistant Professor and Chair in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He has served as a faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India (A Premier National Institute for training Indian Administrative Services Officers).

Dr. Pal having more than 18 years of experience on research, teaching, training, advocacy, consultancy primarily focused on Disaster Risk Governance, Hazard and Risk Assessment, Risk Perceptions, CBDRM, Public Health Risk, GIS & Remote Sensing in DRM, Public Health risk assessment and Climate Change Adaptation. He is supervising Doctoral and Masters’ research students across Asia and Africa in the field of disaster risk management and governance.

Dr. Indrajit published 8 books and more than 75 research articles in peer reviewed international journals. Currently Dr. Pal is involved in multidisciplinary international projects from ProSPER.Net, APN, CDRI, World Bank, NRCT and UKRI- GCRF. Dr. Indrajit is a member of Board of Directors for the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan and also Advisor, Disaster Risk Reduction and Governance at Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES).

Dr. Hayat Khogali is Community Medicine Consultant, with a doctoral degree in community medicine/public health from Sudan (MBBS and MD ) and Medical Epidemiologist with a Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from South Africa (MSc Epi & Bio) , Worked with Sudan FMOH as a Head of National Epidemiology & Zoonotic Disease Program, with more than Ten years of progressive experience in vast field of public health with focus on communicable disease surveillance, Outbreak investigation & control, in addition to Humanitarian Emergency & Response, Implementation of IHR core capacities ,also she has different experience in MCH , Immunization programs , Management , Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.