!!Salman Rawaf - Biography
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Professor Rawaf MD PhD DCH DPH MPH FRCP FFPH, FFPHMI is the Chair of Public Health Medicine, Director of WHO Collaborating Centre at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant Physician in the NHS. His medical training is in paediatrics and public health, and spent the breadth of his career in leading roles in the British National Health Service (NHS); including 26 years as an Executive Director: County Medical Adviser, Medical Director, and Director of Public Health. In the latter 23 years of his service in the NHS, he served as the Executive Director of Health in South-West London with full responsibility for the population health and services in and outside the NHS, from which he then moved to Imperial as Professor of Public Health, and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, which supports several World Health Organization’s Regions and their Member States.  \\
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Salman is globally recognised for his international work and contribution to global health, primary care, and health systems development in leading research, health service design and delivery.  His work is well documented in supporting countries to strengthen their health systems, service development and medical education.\\
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He is an adviser to the World Health Organisation and Governments; Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians London, Follow of the UK Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians UK, and a Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Royal college of Physicians Ireland. He is also involved in many national and international advisory committees. He supported many governments in strengthening their health systems through reviews and educational programmes and commissioned on many projects in the UK and abroad.\\
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Professor Rawaf led on the development of educational and research programmes. He published over 380 scientific papers with h-Index over 105, five books and many international reports and received many awards and recognitions including in 2015 a Life Achievement Award for innovative works in shaping health services, research, and medical education. He is currently the President of the Arab Public Health Association, President of the International Association of Medical Colleges, and the President of the International Society of Health Education.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit srawaf}][{ALLOW upload srawaf}][{ALLOW comment All}]