31st cohort front row: Front Row: Nadeem Alduaij, Sujin Kim, Man Ki (Maggie) Kwok, Svetlana Doubova, El-Fatih El-Samani, Michael Reich (Program Director), Maryam Farvid, Junko Tanuma, Hye-Young (Haeyoung) Kwon. Back Row: Dario Novak, Shogo Kanamori, Ahmed Daak, Sang Min Park, Amy Levin (Program Coordinator), Ronald Tran Ba Huy, Ken Hashimoto. Not pictured: Shinichi Tomioka, Marika Nomura-Baba.
- Financing health in the Arabian Gulf: Why the narrative matters
Nadeem ALDUAIJ, MD, MPH, FAAEM – Kuwait
Emergency Physician/HMS Instructor in Emergency Medicine, BIDMC - Epidemiological study and development of a comprehensive primary health care and management program for sickle cell disease in Sudan
Ahmed DAAK, PhD, MSc, MBBS – Sudan
Assistant Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Khartoum - 1) Access to Healthcare and Financial Risk Protection for Older Adults in Mexico: Comparing Seguro Popular and Social Security and 2) Attributes of patient-centered primary care associated with the public perception of good healthcare quality in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and El Salvador
Svetlana DOUBOVA, DSc, MSc, MD – Mexico
Head of the Epidemiology and Health Services Research Unit, Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) - Development of a diploma/master’s degree in epidemiology training program for Sudan and neighboring countries
El Fatih El SAMANI, ScD, ScM, M Comm H, MBBS – Sudan
Professor of Community Medicine, Ahfad University for Women - Dietary Sources of Protein and Total and Disease-Specific Mortality: the Golestan Cohort Study
Maryam FARVID, PhD – Iran - Determinants of Health Service Responsiveness in Community-based Vector Surveillance for Chagas disease in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras
Ken HASHIMOTO, PhD, MBA, MSc – Japan - Effectiveness in introducing the Japanese 5S concept to healthcare facilities in developing countries
Shogo KANAMORI, MSc, MPH – Japan
Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo - The effects of public pensions on elderly depression in South Korea
Sujin KIM, PhD, MPH, BPharm – South Korea - Where do socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease originate? Money, Income Inequality, Grade and Rank in a Non-western Rapidly Transitioned Setting (MIGRANTS)
Man Ki (Maggie) KWOK, PhD, MPhil – Hong Kong
Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong (HKUSPH) - Explaining the market expansion mechanism in Korea after the entry of generic drugs; the impact of new generic policy on market competition among off-patent drugs
Hye-Young (Haeyoung) KWON, PhD, MPH, BPharm – South Korea
Research Professor, Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University - An analysis of gender inequalities in Maternal Child Health/Nutrition in Lao PDR
Marika NOMURA-BABA, PhD, MHE – Japan - Social Capital and Youth Physical Activity: High School Population-Based Study in Croatia
Dario NOVAK, EdD, MA – Croatia
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb - 1) Unofficial health market and its impact on health systems in North Korea
2) Assessing of Health Aid Trend in North Korea (2002-2013)
Sang Min PARK, PhD, MD, MPH – South Korea
Associate Professor, Center for Medicine and Korean Reunification, Seoul National University
Chief, Center for Cancer Education and Information, Seoul National University - The Multi-Center HIV Cohort Studies in Asia: Hanoi HIV Cohort and East Asia Clinical HIV Cohort
Junko TANUMA, MD, PhD – Japan
Chief Physician, Outpatient Clinic, AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine - Impact of socio-economic-status (SES) on hospital based care in Japan – DPC data based study
Shinichi TOMIOKA, MD, MSc, FYR – Japan - Have results-based financing models delivered against health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how should these models be adapted post-2015?
Ronald TRAN BA HUY, MSc – France
Regional Manager – Central Africa, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria