News and Highlights
November 2009
Welcome New Faculty
Laith J. Abu-Raddad, PhD, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Public Health/Qatar and Assistant Professor of Physics. Dr. Abu-Raddad is a theoretical epidemiologist studying the epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. He joined WCMC-Q in 2008 while serving as an Assistant Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He held positions as Research Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington; as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London; and as NSF-JSPS Postdoctoral Research Associate at Osaka University. He completed his Ph.D. study in Computational Physics at Florida State University. He serves as a consultant, member, advisory member and lead author for a number of public health projects for organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, UNAIDS, and WHO. Dr. Abu-Raddad's research interests are multidisciplinary and focus on studying the epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases using analytical and computational approaches. He recently received a grant for more than $1 million from the Qatar National Research Fund to study the role of biological co-factors in HIV epidemiology and the impact of biomedical HIV prevention interventions.
