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Many consider the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as one of the most important emerging parts of the world economy in the 21st century. MENA is strategically vital as it produces the majority of the world’s oil. However, despite the region’s oil, most MENA countries score lower on Human Development Index (HDI) world ranking, with GDP, productivity and investment rates well below the global average. It is, therefore, becoming widely accepted that the dominant economic model of the region – based on the public sector, oil incomes and workers’ remittances – is not up to the challenges of modern globalisation and the needs of advanced knowledge-based societies.
Given the apparently contradictory needs of economic growth and environmental conservation, it comes as no surprise that knowledge management, innovation and sustainable development (SD) have had such a powerful influence in contemporary discussions on the future of the region.” text_color=”#000000″][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][mkdf_elements_holder holder_full_height=”no” number_of_columns=”four-columns” switch_to_one_column=”” alignment_one_column=””][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 0% 0px 26%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”3984″ title=”1534″ text=”Happy clients” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 8% 0px 17%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4018″ title=”134″ text=”Success Events” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 17% 0px 8%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13% 50px” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 50px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4021″ title=”157″ text=”business strategies” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][mkdf_elements_holder_item item_padding=”0px 26% 0px 0%” item_padding_680_768=”0px 13%” item_padding_680=”0px 5% 0px 0%”][mkdf_icon_with_text type=”icon-top” icon_pack=”font_awesome” fa_icon=”” title_tag=”h2″ text_font=”yes” box=”yes” custom_icon=”4022″ title=”167″ text=”Projects Plans” link=”#” title_font_size=”55″][/mkdf_elements_holder_item][/mkdf_elements_holder][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” row_content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1496660590513{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][mkdf_section_title text_alignment=”” title_tag=”” title_mark=”dot” title_separator=”yes” title=”Upcoming Events”][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][fat_event id=”36172″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment=”left” css=”.vc_custom_1497519300489{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1496672984027{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][mkdf_section_title text_alignment=”” title_tag=”” title_mark=”dot” title_separator=”yes” title=”Our Network”][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][vc_column_text]
Prof. Ammal Metwally
Head of Department National Research CentreCommunity Medicine ResearchPhD
Biography
Prof. Ammal has experience in working with international agencies in Egypt as preventive medicine and behavioral change advisor for behavioral change in health and hygiene since 1997. She has been hired as advisor since 1997; for UNICEF (six years), Swiss Development Fund (one year), World Bank (two year) and Royal Netherlands Embassy (one year) and PLAN International (short assignments). Her primary interests lie in promoting preventive measures and hygienic behavioral change for women, children and the whole family in rural communities through community based approaches aiming at their development and mobilization. Her interest was also for Maternal and Child health studies, Epidemiological studies for communicable (especially viral hepatitis) and non communicable diseases. Her experience was extended to cover almost all the governorates of Egypt namely; Cairo, Giza, Fayoum, Benisuief, El Menia, Assuit, Sohag, Qena, Aswan, Beheira, Kafr El Sheikh and Gharbeya, and Al Wady AL Gadeed Governorates. She has more than fifteen years experience in: designing and implementation of multiple indicator surveys related to assessment of community needs; monitoring and evaluation and in applying the principles of communication for behavioral change and social marketing in public health related fields both at the national and international level. She has international experience as advisor for health in both Yemen (supported by the World Bank) and Jordan (Supported by UNICEF). She has fifteen years experience in provision of technical advice for institutional capacity building, developing, and compiling training & workshops to the governmental bodies and nongovernmental organizations for enhancing their practices related to health awareness, education and behavioral change. She has also ten years experience in providing workshops for postgraduates on basics of scientific research methodology and on personal and professional development. She has developed nineteen modules related to community awareness raising & empowerment for improving the health and environmental conditions of rural communities. As chairman for the project formulation committee, she organized workshops regularly since 2007 for project proposal formulation and writing for the NRC Researches, Assistant Prof. and Professors. As a member of Research Ethics Council of The General Organization of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, she evaluates projects, thesis and research protocols and manuscripts before their submission and as a member of the scientific promotion committee for basic science evaluated published papers for scientist’s promotion. Prof. Ammal has forty two published national and international papers in Family planning, Maternal and child health, nutrition, communicable and non communicable diseases, water, environment and sanitation related topics. She also actively participated in several international conferences as chairperson and as speaker. Prof. Ammal is now running a national project for eradication of hepatitis in Egypt “Towards a village free from Hepatitis”, she completed two national projects funded by STDF as PI and two national projects funded by STDF as Co-PI and one international project funded by FP7 as core- investigator.
Cairo – Egypt
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