Rufaidah Al Dabbagh , MBBS, MPH, DrPH

Dr. Rufaidah Dabbagh is an associate professor and consultant in public health. She has a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from King Saud University, and conducted her Master of Public Health (MPH) training at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she specialized in epidemiology. She also has a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Dabbagh is experienced in modern epidemiological analytical methods, as well as in health services planning and development. She has served as an advisor to several sectors in the healthcare system in Saudi Arabia, and provided consultation in substance use prevention and control, public health competency development, accreditation and training, population health management, as well as strategic planning for regional public health information governance, collection and research.

She has research interest in several areas such as:

• Substance Use prevention and control
• Population health management
• Women's Health
• Health services allocation and assessment
• Public health capacity building
• Application of modern statistical methods (machine learning) to health needs assessment