Speakers
Dr. Abderrahim Oulhaj is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. He holds a PhD in biostatistics from the UCL University in Belgium. Before joining the UAE, he worked as a senior medical biostatistician at the University of Oxford for almost 10 years. He was the lead medical biostatistician for the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing cohort study (OPTIMA) and for the EXCEL study at the Diabetes trial Unit, University of Oxford. Dr. Abderrahim Oulhaj divides his time in teaching undergraduate and graduate programs at the UAEU, supervising PhDs and Master students and working on many research activities as well as consulting with healthcare professionals. He received many awards from the UAE University for publishing in top peer-reviewed scientific journals and bringing recognition to the United Arab Emirates University. His research field is the statistical modelling in medical field especially Diabetes, cardio-vascular and Alzheimer’s diseases. He established very strong collaborations with many international Universities including the University of Oxford (UK), the UCL University (Belgium), Graz medical school (Austria) and University of Oslo (Norway).
Dr. Rami H. Al-Rifai PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Epidemiologist at the Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. Dr. Al-Rifai gained broad expertise in epidemiological studies and systematic reviews and meta-analyses assessing the burden of and identify factors associated with and risk factors of various health outcomes. Dr. Al-Rifai, involved in different observational (cohort and cross-sectional) epidemiological studies on communicable and non-communicable diseases that related to maternal and child health, occupational health, sexually transmitted infections, and parasitic infections. To generate knowledge and inform policy-makers. Dr. Al-Rifai, utilizes primary data collected in field surveys as well as secondary data published in original peer-review studies, to generate summary estimates using systematic reviews and meta-analyses methodology.
Dr. Al-Rifai, collaborates with many researchers at local, regional, and international level with several solo-authored, first-authored, and co-authored peer-reviewed published studies including systematic reviews and meta-analyses studies.
Mr. Abubaker Suliman is a Research Associate at the Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. He holds a Master in Statistics from University of Khartoum in Sudan.
His field of research is biostatistics, with special interest in survival analysis and regression modelling, computational programming (using R) and high-performance computing clusters. During the past few years, he significantly contributed to the building of many R functions and applications used in day-to-day data analysis in the public health department.