Research Publications - College of Medicine and Health Science

qualitative study of the effect of chronic illness
on Emirati families.
Dr Michal Grivna: Public health specialist
physician with a special interest in child injury
control, school and community safety, bicyclerelated
and playground injuries and more
recently school traffic safety, trauma registration
and HIV/AIDS prevention in the UAE. He is a
founding member of the European Child Safety
Alliance and the Centre for Childhood Injury
Epidemiology and Prevention in the Czech
Republic. Dr Grivna is a leading figure in the
promotion and implementation of “WHO - Safe
Community Programs”.
Dr Syed Shah: Chronic Disease Epidemiologist
with research interests in epidemiology of
cardiovascular disease, work-related injuries and
mental health. His recent international research
project is on cardio-vascular risk factors in children
in Pakistan, Malaysia, and the UAE.
Dr Mohamud Sheek-Hussein: Public health
physician and epidemiologist with an interest in
infectious diseases and public health services.
Dr Sheek-Hussein is previously from the Preventive
Medicine Department of the UAE Ministry
of Health and lately of the Health Authority of
Abu Dhabi (HAAD).
Dr Raghib Ali: Clinical epidemiologist with
research interests in the epidemiology of noncommunicable
diseases (particularly cancer),
clinical trials, and global health.
Dr Daniel Handysides: is a health educator
trained at Loma Linda University, specializing in
behavior change and risk perceptions. He has
a strong background in program development
and evaluation. His research interests surround
high risk behaviors and the perceptions
individuals hold towards health. Currently he
is working in partnership with UAEU and the
International Commission for the Prevention
of Alcoholism and Drug Dependancy (ICPA) on
smoking issues within UAE.
Dr Tom Loney: Occupational and environmental
health scientist with a special interest in
human performance optimization of personnel
employed in challenging environments, exercise
prescription for public health, and measurement
issues related to human physiological
monitoring.
Dr John Schneider: Occupational health physician.
His main research interests are occupational
rehabilitation, organization and planning of
occupational health services in rural and remote
work sites, work in hot environments, and impairment
assessment at the workplace.
Ms Rana Kurdi: Research Specialist in basic science
and public health research with a Masters
degree in Public Health, Epidemiology and
Biostatistics.
Dr Mohamed El-Sadig: Epidemiologist and
health economist, with special interest in traffic
safety and non-communicable diseases. He
was a Research Director of the UAE Indoor Air,
Health & Nutrition Study conducted by our department
and the University of North Carolina.
Department of Community Medicine
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