Specialist - Public Health

Saudi Arabia

8 years experience

Birthday:

Nationality:
Pakistani

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University education

Timeframe
Degree / faculty / university
Study areas

2011-062012-07

completed

Master of Public Health
Public Health (post-graduate)

, Australia

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2002-032007-03

completed

Bachelor of Dentistry
Dentistry

, Pakistan

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Professional experience

Timeframe
Occupation / company
Tasks

2016-09Till now

Coordinator Preventive Medicine

, Saudi Arabia
References are available upon request

Collaborated with health promotion team to customize wellness programs to suit Sector's 22 primary health care centers. (Expert user of Health Electronic Surveillance System KSA)
Managed system-wide promotion and preventive programs to achieve an overall average reduction of various health related issues and diseases.
This may involve informing and bringing in other health professionals to assist with various health issues (HIV, Diabetes etc)
Scheduled awareness of healthy lifestyle sessions for improvement of overall health conditions and awareness of patients and staff.
Look after various medical activities and programs to handle seasonally worsening diseases like Influenza, asthma, malaria, dengue, gastroenteritis etc. and ensure existence of preventive and remedial activities.
Public speaking, Quantitative and qualitative data collection and evaluation. expert user SPSS. Report writing and data analysis.

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2012-032016-08

Health Promotion Officer

, Pakistan
References are available upon request

• Engage, manage and communicate with various groups to improve the health of individuals, patients and the community through programs to inform and encourage people to make healthy choices in relation to: healthy eating and obesity; prevention; exercise; smoking; mental health; stress; violation or drug and alcohol use.
• Plan and organize medical camping in remote and distant areas
• Create awareness about causes and symptoms of various diseases, benefits of good hygienic food, healthy and clean environment to avoid obesity and common diseases especially in young children through seminars in schools, colleges and in other social gatherings.
• Act as spokesperson of organization while coordinating with community social services like schools, colleges, hospitals, NGOs etc. to work coherently for better provision of services.
• Establish relation and coordination with public groups, Health NGOs and local government Assist them to enhance efficiency and ensure effective completion of community health programs like polio vaccination campaigns etc.

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Training and development

Timeframe
Degree / institute
Content

Internship

2007-08-012008-07-31


, Pakistan

Health promotional activities & Research Methodologies

Publications

Date
Type of publication / publisher
Title / content

Co-author / co-creator

2017-04-13

Article in a journal

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Author / creator

2016-06-21

Article in a journal

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Co-author / co-creator

2013-09-22

Article in a journal

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Language ability

Language
Level
Exam / certificate
English
Fluent (C1)

Other certificate

Urdu
Mother tongue

Punjabi
Good negotiation skills (C2)

Other skills

Key professional skills
Driver licenses
Interests, hobbies, personal

studied an Dental Surgery degree at uni, followed by a Master of Public Health. Why i was drawn to Health Promotion: "I was sick of fixing people up, rather than going to the source of the problem. I wanted to give people the information they needed to make choices about their health."

I Can work in a range of settings for promotion & prevention including:
• Hospitals
• Local communities
• Neighbourhoods
• Prisons
• Schools

Focus of my work is to cover a number of different health-related issues such as:
• Drug misuse;
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• The dangers of smoking;
• Seasonally worsening diseases
• Excessive alcohol consumption;
• Healthy eating & exercise;
• Sexual health;
• Elderly or disabled
• Community & youth work

Relevant 8 years of professional experience & qualification. plus top-up Master's programme in Public health

• Social perspectives in Health
• Nutrition & Health
• Infectious & Tropical diseases
• Environmental Health
• Health promotion
• Health systems
• Nutrition in international Health
• Reproductive & child Health
• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics

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