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سماح حمد عبدالله العقيل

Assistant Professor

قسم علوم صحة المجتمع

كلية العلوم الطبية التطبيقية
المدينة الجامعية للطالبات, مبنى 11, الدور الثالث, مكتب رقم 198
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سماح حمد عبدالله العقيل

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SAMAH HAMAD ALAGEEL
Address: Saudi Arabia, P.O BOX 45498 RIYADH 11512
Email: samalageel@ksu.edu.sa

Research intrests

 
Investigating health indicators trends and evaluating factors associated with health behavior and behavior change for disease prevention and health promotion.
 

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology and Public Health (Dec 2018).
School of Population Health Sciences.
Dissertation title: “Multiple health behavior change interventions for cardiovascular disease prevention in primary care”. 
 
Master of Public Health (May 2013).
School of Medicine, King’s College London, United Kingdom.
 
Bachelor degree in community health sciences – Health education (Feb 2010).
Collage of Medical Applied Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
 

wORK EXPERIENCE

 
Assistant professor (2018 – present)
Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Community Health Sciences department. Health Education program.
 
Lecturer (2013-2018)
Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Community Health Sciences department. Health Education program.
 
Teaching Assistant (2011-2013)
Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Community Health Sciences department. Health Education program.
 
Health educator (2010)
Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City in the pediatric unit. 
King Faisal Specialist hospital in the Health Education Portal.
 

Languages & Computer literacy

 
   
LANGUAGES: English, Arabic.
TECHNICAL SKILLS: Programming languages (STATA and R).
OTHERS: SPSS and NVivo.
 
 

PUBLICATIONS

 
 
Alomair, N., Alageel, S., Davies, N., & Bailey, J. (2020). Sexually transmitted infection knowledge and attitudes among Muslim women worldwide: a systematic review. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.
 
Alomair, N., Alageel, S., Davies, N., & Bailey, J. V. (2020). Factors influencing sexual and reproductive health of Muslim women: a systematic review. Reproductive Health17(1), 1-15.
Gulliford, M., and Alageel, S. "Digital health intervention at older ages." The Lancet Digital Health 1.8 (2019): e382-e383.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., Wright, A., Khoshaba, B., & Burgess, C. (2019). Engagement with advice to reduce cardiovascular risk following a health check programme: A qualitative study. Health Expectations.
Alageel, S., & Gulliford, M. C. (2019). Health checks and cardiovascular risk factor values over six years’ follow-up: Matched cohort study using electronic health records in England. PLoS medicine, 16(7), e1002863.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., McDermott, L., & Wright, A. J. (2018). Implementing multiple health behaviour change interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction in primary care: a qualitative study. BMC family practice19(1), 171.
Meade, L. B., Bearne, L. M., Sweeney, L. H., Alageel, S. H., & Godfrey, E. L. (2018). Behaviour change techniques associated with adherence to prescribed exercise in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain: Systematic review. British journal of health psychology.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., McDermott, L. & Wright, A. J. (2017). Multiple health behaviour change interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 7(6), pp e015375.
Alageel, S., Wright, A. J. & Gulliford, M. C. (2016). Changes in cardiovascular disease risk and behavioural risk factors before the introduction of a health check programme in England. Preventive medicine, 91(158-163).
 

CONFERENCES/ Meetings presentATIONS

Alageel, S., Wright, A. J. & Gulliford, M. C. 2016. Combined Effect of Multiple Behaviours on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in England from 1994 to 2013. Society for Academic Primary Care Regional Conference: Cardiff. Annual Scientific Meeting.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., McDermott, L. & Wright, A. J. 2016. Multiple behavioural change interventions for the primary prevention of CVD in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention content, theoretical framework and effectiveness.12th UK Society of Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting.
Alageel, S., A. Wright, and M. Gulliford. 2017. "Impact of the Health Check programme on the provision of smoking cessation interventions in England." European Journal of Public Health 2017;27. (suppl 3).
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., McDermott, L. & Wright, A. J. 2017. Implementing multiple behaviour change interventions after health checks in primary care: a qualitative study. 13th UK Society of Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C., McDermott, L. & Wright, A. J. 2018. Implementing multiple behaviour change interventions after health checks in primary care: a qualitative study. NHS Health Check national conference.
Alageel, S., Gulliford, M. C. 2018. NHS Health Check impact on cardiovascular disease risk factors over 6 years' follow-up: Interrupted time series analysis. Public Health Science conference.