Women and Child Health

Prof. Huda Basaleem

More than seventeen years of experience in Public Health, both national and international Previously she worked for Sudan ministry of health as maternal child health director, UNICEF Sudan office as scale up nutrition facilitator, and currently she public health specialist, acting as health protection and promotion team leader at GHD|EMPHNT.

Her experience focuses on PHC specifically in the areas related to maternal and child health, immunization, and including nutrition both prevention and curative programming.

She played a key role in primary health care expansion and universal health coverage projects, besides integration of maternal and child health programs supported by Sudan FMOH.

She possesses strong skills in coordination of parties; policy and strategy development; advisory roles encompassing program management, resources mobilization, with very strong leadership, and networking.

She has an experience in guideline development as well as the development of strategic documents that not only address overarching ministry policies and strategies but also include programmatic guiding documents. She contributed extensively to the conduction of research and thesis supervision.

Bothaina Attal is a medical doctor by training. She obtained her PhD in Public Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The thesis was in quality of childbirth health care in the public and private health hospitals in Sana’a, Yemen. She has over 15-year experience in Public Health teaching, research and programme management in Yemen and number of Arab countries.

She has worked at WHO and Unicef, Yemen in setting up and managing Health systems, Reproductive Health and Gender programmes in development and humanitarian settings.

She is currently an Associate Researcher at THIS institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), Cambridge University, the UK and an Associate Professor of Public Health at Sana’a medical School.

Hana Taha, an active member in the Swedish Academics Union and a Senior Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Dr. Taha received a PhD in Global Public Health and a Postdoc in Epidemiology from Karolinska institutet, Sweden. She has a wealth of international experience and in-depth knowledge of capacity building using innovative adult learning techniques.

Hana was a key member in the Jordanian Ministry of Health (MoH) strategic planning team 2008-2012. Her networking skills enabled her to secure advocacy and governance support for strengthening the health system in Jordan. Her multicultural background and technical expertise enabled her to accomplish success in assignments embracing women health and gender equity.

Hana has expertise in public health programs leadership within USAID projects and leading NGOs in Jordan. She has vast competence in establishing multi-stakeholder and cross-sector partnerships, evidence-based policy development, civil society and social mobilization, grass roots-initiated health promotion, social marketing and capacity building, writing public health research proposals, grants applications and managing projects’ grants.

Dr. Taha is a monitoring and evaluation expert and her skills include: the development of M&E plans; designing M&E methods and setting key performance indicators; designing and implementing public health epidemiological studies using quantitative and qualitative research methods (SPSS, Stata, Nvivo), evaluation of the effectiveness of health interventions, undertaking baseline surveys; assessment of data quality; analysis of performance results and contextual interpretation of research findings; submitting reports to donors; writing and publishing scientific manuscripts and promoting research uptake for decision making and policy formulation.

Hana speaks English, Arabic and Swedish. She served as an active member in Jordan’s Economic Policies Development Forum, Jordan’s Women Health Alliance, and Empowerment Committee. Hana has worked closely with senior officials in the government of Jordan and a multitude of international and donor agencies for the integration of Syrian refugees within the hosting communities in the north of Jordan.

Prof of obstetrics and gynecology The director of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Jordan and Jordan University Hospital Graduated from The University of Jordan for bachelor’s in medicine and master degree in Obstetrics and gynecology.

Sub specialist in fetomaternal Medicne from Sydney, Australia My interest is female health at different stages of her life.