Dr. Sayed Himatt
Dr. Sayed Himatt is a public health and communicable diseases control expert with more than 17 years of national and international experience in surveillance, outbreak investigation, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and communicable disease control programs management. He is a trusted Consultant with consistent track record in providing high-quality individual and collaborative evaluations, assessments, technical reviews and assistance for several organizations including WHO.
Dr. Himatt participated in establishing, leading and evaluating a number of public health projects including Early Warning Alert and Response Network/System (EWARN, EWARS) in war affected areas in Darfur, Sudan and in Northern Syria. He has an extensive background in leading top performing teams, developing effective national communicable diseases control programs and strategies in Sudan and Qatar. He is an experienced team leader for outbreak investigation missions for a wide range of outbreak borne diseases.
Dr. Himatt is currently the Team Leader of COVID-19 System Enhancement and Transformation Team (SETT) within Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar. He was the manager of the Qatar National COVID-19 Response Airports teams.
Dr. Himatt published a number of peer reviewed and conference papers and served as reviewer for several medical journals.
He is a medical doctor, licensed Consultant of Community Medicine with a clinical medical doctorate in community medicine and European Master of Science in International Health (Tropical Medicine and Disease Control).
