The Institute for Population Health (IPH) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) launched a new series of webinars to explore how evidence-based integrative and preventive approaches can promote health and tackle major global health challenges.
The Population Health and Well-Being Webinar Series features a different expert speaker each month discussing the major health challenges facing populations across the world, such obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic, infectious disease pandemics, the rising rate of mental illness, health inequity, healthcare system design, and gaps in healthcare professionals’ education and training, among others.
Underlying the series is a guiding theme that a wide range of behavioural, societal and environmental factors negatively impact the health of populations, and that integrating lifestyle-based, preventive approaches into conventional healthcare systems is key to improving health and well-being for all.
The webinar series is the creation of IPH, led by Vice Dean for Student Affairs Dr Ravinder Mamtani, Assistant Dean Dr Sohaila Cheema, and Assistant Director Dr Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy.
According to Dr Cheema, the new series offers an exciting new forum in which to conceptualise new approaches to protecting and enhancing people’s health.
We firmly believe that to truly address the gravest health challenges facing us today, we need to move beyond the traditional curative paradigm and embrace preventive approaches to healthcare.
She said that the series provides a space in which leading experts from a wide variety of fields can share their knowledge across intersectoral boundaries and conceive new ways to enhance health for all, in a sustainable and equitable fashion.
To learn more about the Population Health and Well-being Series of the Institute for Population Health, visit qatar-weill.cornell.edu.
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