Efforts to tackle a range of pressing global health challenges have been boosted by an innovative webinar series delivered by the Institute for Population Health (IPH) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).

The Population Health and Well-Being Series was launched to explore how evidence-based integrative and preventive approaches can promote health and tackle various public health problems, ranging from infectious diseases like COVID-19 and Hepatitis C to lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Population Health and Well-Being Series

Since the series was launched, a total of 12 webinars have been hosted by the IPH, each presented by a different expert speaker.

  • Social determinants of non-communicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, presented by Dr Hanan Abdul Rahim (Qatar University)
  • The role of lifestyle in medicine in population health by Dr James Rippe (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  • The experience of WCM-Q in optimising public health research during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr Sohaila Cheema (WCM-Q)
  • The use of big data in population health research related to Hepatitis C and COVID-19 by Dr Adeel Butt (Hamad Medical Corporation and WCM-Q)

One of the highlights of the series was a presentation titled Battling the COVID-19 pandemic: A Perspective from Qatar by Dr Mohamed Bin Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani, Public Health Department Director at the Ministry of Public Health and Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at WCM-Q and Qatar University.

WCM-Q’s Dr Ravinder Mamtani said they are extremely grateful to Dr Al-Thani for giving them the benefit of his expertise and insights into the excellent work that was done in Qatar to contain the COVID-19 pandemic which undoubtedly saved many lives.

Thanks to the high calibre of our expert speakers and the excellence of their presentations, I am happy to say that our Population Health and Well-Being Series has been a tremendous success and is going from strength to strength.

Other topics addressed by the series include a New York perspective of professional medical conduct, presented by Paula M Breen of the New York State Department of Health; lessons from four decades of experience in medical education by Dr William W Pinsky of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates; strategies for integrating real-world data with clinical trial data to improve decision-making presented by Dr Ronac Mamtani and Dr Rebecca Hubbard, both from the University of Pennsylvania; and The Living Gap: Bridged by Compassion presented by Dr David Reilly, Director of TheWEL Programmes and The Healing Shift Enquiry.

For updates and more information about the Population Health and Well-Being Series at WCM-Q, visit qatar-weill.cornell.edu


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