Karima Chaabna
Dr. Karima Chaabna is an epidemiologist who serves as Assistant Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences and as a manager for population health research at the Institute for Population Health (IPH), Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). She is leading, developing, and managing research and related projects on population health issues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She has published over 40 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Chaabna also supports IPH’s population health educational and community awareness programs in Qatar. She is the Course Director for the "Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Principles and Practice" workshop. She also teaches biostatistics for healthcare professionals, mentores WCM-Q’s students as well as research staff, and teaches residents at Hamad Medical Corporation.
Prior to joining IPH, she was a postdoctoral associate in healthcare policy and research at WCM-Q. Her research focused primarily on characterizing the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in the MENA region. Dr. Chaabna has a research master's in Population and Health with a specialization in biostatistics and a PhD in epidemiology, both from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France. During her PhD, she was a research student at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (affiliated to the World Health Organization) in Lyon, France. Her PhD research focused on assessing geographical patterns and time trends of HIV/AIDS and AIDS-related cancer morbidities in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Chaabna was trained in systematic review methodology and related-advanced methods at Columbia University, in New York and during the Cornell-Cochrane-WHO Summer Institute at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.