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Dania Mazen Khalil Qato ( October 10, 1979 – ) is a Palestinian-American epidemiologist and pharmacist , born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm , and holds both Palestinian and American citizenship. She is considered one of the most prominent scientists, and works as a professor at the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Maryland, USA. She previously worked at the Institute of Public and Community Health at Birzeit University in Palestine. She has won several scientific awards.
Her upbringing and academic achievement
Dania Mazen Khalil Al-Qatto was born in the city of Tulkarm, Palestine, on October 10 , 1979 , and grew up in Tulkarm . She is the sister of the scientist Dima Al-Qatto and the scientist Mazna Al-Qatto.
In 1996, Dania joined the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois in the United States of America , where she obtained a " Doctor of Pharmacy " degree in 2002. In 2003, she joined the Harvard School of Public Health, where she obtained a master's degree in 2004 in " Public Health " with a concentration in "International Health and Human Studies." In 2009, she joined the School of Public Health at Brown University, where she obtained a doctorate in "Health and Pharmaceutical Services Research" in 2014.
Her professional life
In 2003, she worked with the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees to document the health effects of human rights violations in the West Bank , a project arranged by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University . In 2001, she founded the Chicago Palestinian Film Festival .
In 2013, she conducted an ethnographic study on the environmental and health impacts of the Israeli Geshuri Industrial Complex in Tulkarm, funded by the Alpert Medical School of Brown University , and has conducted research with the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health, was an American research fellow at the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences , and is a member of the Lancet Palestine Health Alliance (LPHA).
She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization , and served as Chair of the Committee on Drug Policy and Pharmaceutical Services at the American Public Health Association , and from September 2015 to September 2016 she worked at the Institute of Public and Community Health at Birzeit University in Palestine .
Since September 2016, she has been a professor at both the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore , a faculty member of the University of Maryland Institute for Global Health, and a faculty member of the university's doctoral program in gerontology . She also served as director of the university's graduate pharmacy program from 2018 to 2023.
Her research
She has many scientific researches specialized in the field of epidemiology and public health , and her research has been adopted and funded by: the US Food and Drug Administration , the US National Institutes of Health , the US National Institute on Aging the Robert Wood Johnson Health Foundation , the US Clinical and Translational Research Institute, the Swedish International Development Agency , many others.
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Awards and Honors
Dania Al-Qatto has received a number of scientific awards and honors, the most important of which are:
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and Award .
Paul and Soros Fellowship and Award , 2003.
Fulbright Research Award and , 2015.
National Institutes of Health Fellowship , from the National Institutes of Health , for her research in public health and health care .
In 2020, the “Scientists for Palestine” organization selected her as one of the most prominent scientists, along with Leila Farsakh , Tarek Loubani , Marwan Awartani , George Smith , and Nergis Mavalvala , at the organization’s third international conference held on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in January 2020.
was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Health Foundation as a “Health Culture Leader” in the National Health Leadership Program , 2020.
University of Maryland School of Medicine Teaching Award , 2023.
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