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Dania Mazen Khalil Al-Qato ( October 10, 1979 -) is a Palestinian-American epidemiologist and pharmacist. She was born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, and holds both Palestinian and American citizenship. She is considered One of the most prominent scientists, [6] she works as a professor in the colleges 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, and she holds several scientific awards.
Her upbringing and educational attainment
Dania Mazen Khalil Al-Qato was born in the city of Tulkarm , Palestine, on October 10, 1979, and grew up in Tulkarm, and she is the sister of the scholar Dima Al-Qato and the scholar Muzna Al-Qato.
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, and in 2003 she joined the School of Public Health at Harvard University, from which she obtained a master’s degree in 2004 in “ Public Health .” With a concentration in “International Health and Humanitarian Studies,” and in 2009 she joined the School of Public Health at Brown University, where in 2014 she obtained a doctorate in “Health Services and Pharmaceutical Research.”
Working 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 . The project was arranged by the François-Xavier Pagenaud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University . In 2001 , she founded the Chicago Palestinian Film Festival. .
In 2013, she presented an ethnographic study on the environmental and health impacts of the Israeli Gishuri Industrial Complex in the city of Tulkarm, funded by the Albert Medical College at Brown University. She conducted numerous research with the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health, and was an American research fellow at the Palestinian Research Center. The American Council (PARC) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, and is a member of the “Lancet-Palestinian Health Alliance” (LPHA).
She worked as an expert consultant for the World Health Organization , and served as Chair of the Drug and Pharmaceutical Services Policy Committee at the American Public Health Association ,and from September 2015 until September 2016 she worked at the Institute of Public and Community Health at Birzeit University in Palestine .
Since September 2016, she has held the position of professor in both the “College of Pharmacy” and the “ College of Medicine - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health” at the University of Maryland in Baltimore [English] . She is a member of the faculty of the “University of Maryland Institute for Global Health” and a faculty member. The doctoral program in gerontology at the university,and she also served as director of the university’s graduate pharmaceutical studies program from 2018 until 2023 .
Her research
She has a lot of scientific research 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 [English] , and the Robert Wood Johnson Health Foundation [English], the American Clinical and Translational Research Institute, the Swedish International Development Agency , and many others.
Awards and honors
Dania Al-Quto received a number of academic awards and honors, the most important of which were:
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and Award [English] .
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship and Award [English] , 2003 .
US Fulbright Research Award and Grant , 2015 .
US National Institutes of Health Fellowship [English] , from the US National Institutes of Health , for her research in public health and health care .
The “Scientists for Palestine Organization” chose her in 2020 as one of the most prominent scientists, along with Laila Farsakh , Tariq Loubani , Marwan Awartani , George Smith , and Nergis Mavalvala , within the organization’s third international conference held on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in January 2020.
Selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Health Foundation as a “Health Culture Leader” in the National Health Leadership Program, 2020 .
Teaching Award from the University of Maryland School of Medicine , 2023 .
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