{"id":3320,"date":"2016-11-24T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:36:11","slug":"who-collaborating-centre-for-public-health-education-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2016\/11\/24\/who-collaborating-centre-for-public-health-education-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imperial\/WHO CC Alumni reunion in Riyadh
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Salman Rawaf hosted a gathering for Imperial MPH and PhD alumni as well as WHO CC Fellowship Alumni currently residing in Riyadh on the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0October at the Hilton Double Tree in Riyadh. Attending the gathering was DR. Amal Hassanein, Ms Johara Al Saud, DR Turki Bin Moammer, Dr Thamer Al-Ohali, and Dr Ahmed Al Mujil.<\/p>\n

Visit to King Abdul Aziz University College of Medicine, Jeddah<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Professor Salman Rawaf and Dr Sondus Hassounah visited the King Abdul Aziz University College of Medicine in \u00a0Jeddah on 9 October and were hosted by Professor Waleed Melaat to discuss cross university research collaboration.<\/p>\n

Focus Group Discussions in Riyadh, Jeddah, Tabuk, Dammam, and Abha<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"In collaboration with the Saudi Health Council (the coordinating body for the integration between the various health authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Professor Salman Rawaf and Dr Sondus Hassounah conducted five focus group discussions, over a period of two weeks (3 \u2013 14 October), as part of the larger project to develop a national strategy for the development of Health Protection in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The team from Imperial College London\u2019s WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training(Ms Christina Banks, Ms Alex Swaka, Mr Mohamed Al Saffar, Dr Sondus Hassounah, and Professor Salman Rawaf) have been involved in the project since its inception in early 2016 and have been working with their counter parts in Saudi Arabia on the multi-pronged project which includes a desk review of model country case studies, focus group discussions with relevant stakeholders, a nationally representative survey with 5,500 of the public, and in-depth interviews with policy makers.<\/p>\n

The project is expected to continue till mid-2017 when the results will be shared and discussed with the Saudi Health Council and other partners in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Mashael Al Sheikh: Systematic Review on Women and Cardiovascular Risks in KSA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Ms\u00a0Mashael\u00a0Al Sheikh, PhD student at the Imperial WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education & Training,\u00a0for her Systematic Review on Women and Cardiovascular Risks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is available for viewing\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article has significant public health implications and more results will be available shortly on the impact on culture (beliefs, behaviour etc) on health.<\/p>\n

Health policies and family physicians alike should aim to address some of these issues outside the disease model.<\/p>\n

Leadership in Health- National Primary Care Services, Kuwait<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training hosted Dr Rihab Wotayan (Managing Director for the National Primary Care Services in Kuwait) to discuss future collaboration with the centre and the department of Primary care and Public Health at Imperial. Dr Rihab and her team are interested in working with WHO CC to develop the capacity of, and train, their local health workforce, particularly in \u2018Leadership in Health\u2019. Dr Rihab is also keen to expand on the success of their recent investment in Primary Care doctors in the Kingdom and potentially send some of Kuwait\u2019s GP trainees to take part in WHO CC 1-2 year post graduate research fellowship.<\/p>\n

For the picture–Left to right: Professor Salman Rawaf (Director WHO CC), Dr Rihab Wotayan (Managing Director for the National Primary Care Services in Kuwait), Dr Sondus Hassounah (Teaching Fellow, WHO CC), Dr Weiam Ahmed (Honorary lecturer WHO CC).<\/p>\n

Welcome to WHO CC Post-Graduate fellow Dr Abdulaziz Alqahtani<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training was joined on 1st<\/sup> October by Dr Abdulaziz Alqahtani from Saudi Arabia. Dr Abdulaziz is a senior Registrar in Family Medicine at the Prince Sultan Military Medical City and will be following his postgraduate fellowship till end of August next year.<\/p>\n

Ela Augustyniak
\nWHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imperial\/WHO CC Alumni reunion in Riyadh Professor Salman Rawaf hosted a gathering for Imperial MPH and PhD alumni as well as WHO CC Fellowship Alumni currently residing in Riyadh on the 13th\u00a0October at the Hilton Double Tree in Riyadh. Attending the gathering was DR. Amal Hassanein, Ms Johara Al Saud, DR Turki Bin Moammer, Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16287,53,20750,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings","category-events","category-primary-care","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}