WCM-Q webinar series boosts understanding of key population health challenges

WCM-Q webinar series boosts understanding of key population health challenges

Doha : The Population Health & Wellbeing 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.

Since the series was launched, a total of 12 webinars have been hosted by the IPH, each presented by a different expert speaker. Recent topics have included social determinants of non-communicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, presented by Dr. Hanan Abdul Rahim of Qatar University; the role of lifestyle in medicine in population health by Dr. James Rippe of the University of Massachusetts Medical School; the experience of WCM-Q in optimizing public health research during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr. Sohaila Cheema of WCM-Q; and the use of big data in population health research related to hepatitis C and COVID-19 by Dr. Adeel Butt of 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, Director of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Public Health, Qatar and