Dr Hamad Abdel Hadi, MBBS, MSc, Dip HIV Med, CCST, FRCP, Sr Consultant Infectious Diseases. He is a senior consultant in infectious diseases at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, and an associate Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases at Qatar University as well as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. His academic research focuses on antimicrobial resistance in collaboration with local and international institutions.
Sara Al Balushi has a position as an Epidemiologist and a Senior Pharmacist, and is currently working at the Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the Oman Medical College in 2008, and her Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Qatar University in 2018. She was an Outpatient Pharmacy Incharge at the Hamad Medical Corporation.
Dr. Faraz Ahmed has a position as a Lecturer in Health Inequalities and is currently working at the Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK. Following his Medical Research Council PhD studentship at the Institute of Public Health (University of Cambridge), he joined the Lancaster Dementia Research Team as a Senior Research Associate. His previous research work at Lancaster University was within the National Neighbourhoods and Dementia Programme. He is a Public Health researcher with extensive experience in international health and working with ethnic minority communities in the UK. Prior to starting his research at the Institute of Public Health (University of Cambridge), he was working as a Research Fellow at the University of York. He holds an MSc in International Health from the University of Leeds and has a strong interest in addressing inequalities in health. His previous experience includes public–private partnerships in increasing TB case-detection among poor and disadvantaged groups, health systems evaluation, and developing and evaluating health promotion programs for minority ethnic groups.
Prof. Céu Mateus has a position as a Professor in Health Economics and is currently working at the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Health—Health Economics from the National School of Public Health, Nova University of Lisbon in Portugal, an M.Sc. in European Social Policy Analysis from Bath University in the UK, and graduated in Economics from ISEG–Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Lisbon University in Portugal. Between 2001 and 2014, she was an Assistant Professor in Health Economics at the National School of Public Health at the University Nova of Lisbon. She worked for the Institute of Management and IT (Ministry of Health) in the Department of Information Systems Development from 1995 until 2000, where she was the Executive responsible for the Financing System/Classification System in Diagnoses Related Groups. She has over 25 years of experience in research and has developed her expertise around the economic evaluation of health technologies and interventions, efficiency measurement, equity, and quality of life. She has been involved in several scientific associations in the field of healthcare, such as PCSI, EuHEA, and the Portuguese Chapter of ISPOR. She was the President of the Portuguese Health Economics Association between 2017 and 2023.
