Salman Rawaf

Salman Rawaf is a professor of public health at Imperial College London.[1] He is the director of Imperial's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) for Public Health Education and Training, established in 2007 as part of the School of Public Health.[2] He is notable for his work on global health, having served as WHO advisor to governments in the Middle East and elsewhere,[3] including on response committees during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] He was a member of the WHO's HRH Leadership Hub, advising the WHO in regards to their HRH curriculum.[5] Most of his earlier career was spent in paediatric and public health training and directorships in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

Biography

Between 1988 and 2009, Rawaf served as Director of Public Health for Wandsworth in south-west London,[6] as well as Merton and Sutton in 1998–99.[7] Since then, he has worked as a professor of public health at Imperial College London and as the director of the university’s WHO Collaborating Centre.[2]

Across his career he served on several WHO advisory boards consulting on global health initiatives,[8] including work in the Eastern Mediterranean.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic he advised the governments of Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. In research, Rawaf has over 600 publications[9] and is an Honorary Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and Ghent University in Belgium.[3]

Rawaf is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Public Health Medicine. He is also an executive founder of the Arab Public Health Association,[10] and is the current President of the International Association of Medical Colleges.[11]

In 2015 Rawaf was awarded a Life Achievement Award in Healthcare Excellence by the Indus Foundation,[12] an Indian non-profit promoting higher education.

References

  1. ↑ "Salman Rawaf". Imperial College London.
  2. 1 2 "Imperial WHO Collaborating Centre – About". 11 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Top Business Schools". Mile Madinah Institute.
  4. 1 2 Rawaf, Salman (2022-08-10). "Unlocking towns and cities: COVID-19 exit strategy". Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 26 (5): 499–502. doi:10.26719/emhj.20.028. hdl:10044/1/78690. PMID 32538441.
  5. ↑ "HRH Leadership Hub of the Global Health Workforce Network is now operational". World Health Organisation. 2019-10-01.
  6. ↑ "Maternal and Child Health Conference 2012 Speakers". Family Health Service, Hong Kong Department of Health.
  7. ↑ "1 Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2013-14". London Borough of Sutton.
  8. ↑ "Salman Rawaf - Biography". Academia Europeae.
  9. ↑ "Salman Rawaf".
  10. ↑ "About us". ARPHA. 15 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Board Members". IAOMC.
  12. ↑ "PCPH Newsletter Feed: WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, November 2015". Imperial Faculty of Medicine Staff Blog.
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