Sohaila Cheema, MBBS, MPH, CPH, Dip IBLM
Sohaila Cheema is the Assistant Dean for the Institute for Population Health (IPH) and Associate Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q). She actively engages in oversight and implementation of IPH education, research, and community programs. Committed to enhancing the quality of education, Dr. Cheema takes pride in teaching public health and related disciplines to premedical and medical students and community medicine residents. She also co-directs the pre-medical course, Health and Disease: A Global Perspective, and serves as the Associate Director for the Health Care and Public Health Clerkship.
Dr. Cheema is actively involved in developing, implementing and evaluating continuous professional development/continuous medical education activities for capacity building and lifelong learning among healthcare professionals, notably through the Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine and Understanding Basics of Health Research. She is also the co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group-Qatar, which aims to foster a community of dedicated professionals dedicated to promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles. Additionally, she collaborates with private and government institutions on programmatic activities aimed at promoting health awareness, disease prevention and self-care in the State of Qatar. Moreover, she serves on or has served on many Qatari government/medical school committees.
Dr. Cheema’s research interests are multidisciplinary and include the non-communicable disease paradigm, migrant health, road traffic crashes and injuries, lifestyle medicine, public health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and contemporary healthcare and population health issues.
Dr. Cheema, a medical doctor by training, completed her Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona. She is a diplomate of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and is a certified lifestyle medicine physician. She received her Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners, USA.