Omar Hahad, PhD
Dr. Omar Hahad is a medical scientist at the Department of Cardiology at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany, and a lecturer in epidemiology. He holds a doctoral degree in cardiovascular physiology, awarded for research conducted at the Department of Cardiology, and has an academic background in both psychology and epidemiology.
His research focuses on environmental risk factors—particularly air pollution, noise exposure, and the exposome—and their associations with cardiovascular and mental health outcomes. He is actively involved in several large-scale population-based studies, including the Gutenberg Health Study, and leads research on the psychosocial and biological mechanisms linking environmental exposures to disease development and progression.
Dr. Hahad is also a scientist at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Rhine-Main, and a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. He serves on the managing board of the environmental health network EXPOHEALTH and is a contributing scientist to the environmental research consortium MARKOPOLO, which is funded by the European Union and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
His work has been published in leading international journals and has received wide media attention, underscoring the relevance of environmental health risk factors and sustainable urban planning in the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Dr. Hahad is deeply committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and science communication, and regularly shares his insights at scientific conferences, public forums, and media outlets.