Dr. Mohamed Nour
Dr. Mohamed Nour is Public Health Consultant, Expert in Risk communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), and an Epidemiologist in Communicable Disease at the Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control Department (HP & CDC), Ministry of Public Health, Qatar.
Since 2015, Dr. Nour has been regularly representing HP & CDC in the planning and implementation of surveillance and response to the infectious diseases related to the sports events hosted in Qatar. He was one of the experts who developed the first World Health Organization guidelines on Emergency Risk Communication. He has also been a member of several expert technical groups and committees of the WHO where he managed to combine his public health together with RCCE perspectives.
Dr. Nour has been involved in several roles within Qatar response to COVID-19; the composition of the RCCE taskforce, activation of the 16000 helpline and the establishment of the community engagement and awareness campaign addressing the needs of the workers’ community.
Dr. Nour has more than 16 years of experience in combating outbreak-prone diseases coupled with ERC in his home country of Sudan, then Turkey, and currently in Qatar. His experience covers a wide range of outbreak and pandemic events including; Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, Rift Valley Fever, H1N1, Diphtheria, Bacterial Meningitis, Cholera, Measles, and Polio.
Dr. Nour has several researches and case studies with focus on ERC and epidemics of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
