Sohaila Cheema, MBBS, MPH, CPH
Sohaila Cheema, MBBS, MPH, CPH 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 medical students in the Essential Principles of Medicine (EPOM) course, Health, Illness and Disease I (HID I) course, the Health Care and Public Health Clerkship and presents seminars to community medicine residents at Hamad Medical Corporation on topics of public health interest. She also serves as Associate Clerkship Director for the Health Care and Public Health Clerkship.
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. Furthermore, she co-directs the global health service learning program whereby premedical students are placed for 2-weeks at an orthopedic and rehabilitation hospital in Vietnam for a service learning experiential opportunity.
Her research interests are multidisciplinary with an emphasis on lifestyle medicine, population health, capacity building, and the non-communicable disease paradigm. She has published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals on a wide variety of topics.
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.