FEB 10 & 11, 2018


Student Wellness: Perspectives, Challenges & Innovations

WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE - QATAR

Sohaila Cheema, MBBS, MPH, CPH

Sohaila Cheema

Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
Director, Institute for Population Health
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Cheema is the Director, Institute for Population Health (IPH) and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q). She actively participates in oversight and implementation of IPH education, research and community programs. Dr. Cheema co-directs and teaches the pre-medical course, Health and Disease: A Global Perspective. Additionally, she teaches senior medical students in the Public Health and Healthcare Clerkship for which she also serves as the Associate Director. Furthermore, she presents seminars to community medicine residents at Hamad Medical Corporation on topics of public health interest.

Dr. Cheema actively collaborates with private and government institutions on programmatic activities aimed at promoting health awareness, disease prevention and self-care in the State of Qatar. She is WCM-Q’s Manager for the Global Educational Exchange in Medicine and the Health Professions (GEMx) program, administered by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), USA. She serves on or has served on many Qatari government/medical school committees. She supervises the Global Health Education and Research Program, which provides unique experiential learning and research opportunities to WCM-Q medical students at Weill Bugando School of Medicine in Tanzania. She also co-directs and supervises the Global Health Service Learning Program in which premedical students get an opportunity to explore healthcare in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Dr. Cheema's research interests are multidisciplinary with an emphasis on non-communicable disease paradigm particularly in the areas of obesity, diabetes and the epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries. She has published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals, notably “Herbal and Nutritional Supplement Use Among College Students in Qatar” in the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2015, “Cancer Risk in Waterpipe Smokers: a Meta-analysis in the International Journal of Public Health, 2016 and “Knowledge and Perceptions about Zika virus in a Middle East Country” in BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017.

Dr. Cheema received her medical degree from Dow Medical College, Pakistan and has completed her Fellowship in Integrative Medicine from the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA. She received her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners, USA.