Epidemiology and Public Health

Ahmed Hegazi is currently a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the National Research Center, Egypt. Prof. Hegazi received his master’s degree in 1979, and his PhD in 1981. Hegazi's research work has been focused lately on bee products and their therapeutic effects.

Dr. Hegazi awards; First Class Decoration of Excellence, Egypt, 1995, The Senior Scientist Prize of National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1996, The National Scientific Prize In Biological Sciences, Egypt, 1990, The Scientific Prize of The National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1989, The Second Best Research Paper Award, International Congress of Propolis, Bones Aires, Argentina, 2000, Main Speaker Award,10^th Academic Conference, PRA and NAS (Nippon Apitherapy Soc.) Japan, 2006, 2 Bronze medals from The International Innovation Fair of the Middle East, Kuwait, 2007 Awarded of Ghazi Wad Allah Salon Prize, 2008. Awarded the Merit Aware of Medical Sciences, The National Research Center, 2016.

Dr. Hegazi contributed Chairman of the National Committee for Microbiological Sciences (NCMS) in Egypt, Academy of Science and Technology, Egypt, from 2018.

Hegazi organized and contributed to national and international research projects since 1977 and up till now; he has been the principal investigator on multiple research projects within the National Research Center. He Conducted training courses on Clinical Microbiology, National Research Center in 1979.

He has 243 articles in national and international scientific journals. Editor in 48 journals, Referee in the 98 International Journals, Organizer of 156 International Symposium and conferences, 9 books in English language and 13 books in Arabic language. He has patent No. 28335at 11/12/2017. and registers for other 5.

Name: Nkoli Winifred Emeter

Organisation: National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja,  ( 2011 till date)

Country: Nigeria

Occupation/job title: Assistant Chief Scientific Officer

Education: Master of Public Health( Epidemiology) Walden University USA. 

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Research Interest: HIV/AIDS and Non-Communicable Diseases especially cancer

Expertise: Monitoring and Evaluation, Data Analysis

My name is Zaynab Mahdi, I am a medical doctor graduated from the medical school of Rabat, I was admitted to a residency program in the Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Faculty of Medicine of Tangier, which allows me to benefit from specialized training in order to obtain a national specialty diploma in community medicine (epidemiology and public health).

As a medical resident, I gained extensive experience working in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, preventive medicine and clinical research. 

I am currently working on multiple projects such as determinants of COVID-19 disease severity, migrants access to healthcare in Morocco, sentinel epidemiological surveillance system and mental health.

Yiannis Koumpouros (BSc, MSc, MBA, PhD) is Ass. Professor in the University of West Attica, Department of Public and Community Health. Specialized in health informatics, e-health, m-health, telemedicine, assistive technologies, rehabilitation, users satisfaction assessment, and strategic management. Expert for the European Commission in the e-health and m-health sectors, and evaluator of numerous R&D projects. Responsible for the WHODAS 2.0 scale cultural adaptation for the World Health Organization in Greece. Top-level managerial experience in the private and public healthcare sector (chairman of hospitals, member of the board of directors, business development and strategic management director, etc.). Chairman of several committees in the Ministry of Development. Regular member of the Consultative Technical Council (Ministry of Internal Public Administration and Decentralisation), etc. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He has participated in more than 50 R&D funded projects in the field of healthcare and ICTs.