Draft:Ayman El-Mohandes

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Ayman El-Mohandes is an American epidemiologist and the dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy since 2013. He was the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 2009 to 2013. He is a pediatrician and specialist in neonatal medicine and infant mortality in minority populations.[1] El-Mohandes is an expert on vaccine hesitancy and acceptance.[2][3]

Education

Ayman El-Mohandes received his MD from Cairo University Medical School. He received his MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from George Washington University.[4]

Career

Prior to joining the City University of New York, El-Mohandes was a founding faculty member of the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services, now known as the Milken Institute School of Public Health, where he served as associate dean for research and later, chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health.[5] He went on to serve as the inaugural dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.[6] His primary research addressed maternal and child health, particularly in underserved communities.[7][8]

Since 2020, El-Mohandes has focused his research interest on the population health impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and vaccine hesitancy worldwide. His work in this domain has appeared in Nature, The Lancet, and the American Journal of Public Health.[9][10][11] El-Mohandes is regularly consulted on this subject in the media.[12][13][14] He is the co-lead of the New York City Pandemic Response Institute.[15]

During 2022-2023, Ayman El-Mohandes was the chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASSPH).[16]

Ayman El-Mohandes is co-chair of the governing board at the Pandemic Response Institute along with co-chair Wafaa El-Sadr, founder and director of ICAP at Columbia University.[17] El-Mohandes regularly appeared on media outlets for his expertise on COVID resurgence during the COVID pandemic[18][19] and vaccine hesitancy.[20][21]

In January 2024, Ayman El-Mohandes gave testimony before the Health, Finance, and Ways and Means Committees of the New York State Assembly on the executive budget proposal for health and Medicaid.[22]

In 2022, Ayman El-Mohandes co-authored a seminal article in Nature that brought together 386 experts from academia, governments, and NGOs. Experts represented 112 countries. Using the Delphi method, the study proposed 57 recommendations for ending the COVID pandemic and addressed inadequacies of the global response to the pandemic.[23][24]

In 2021, Ayman El-Mohandes moderated a discussion on corporate impact on human and planetary health C-SPAN2's Book TV. The program featured book author and CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy distinguished professor Nicholas Freudenberg, food policy expert and professor emerita Marion Nestle and former New York City Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett.[25]

Awards and Honors

Ayman El-Mohandes was the recipient of the Milken Institute School of Public Health 950 Award in 2022.[26] He was the recipient of the APHA Executive Director Citation in 2017 for “extraordinary leadership and innovation in strengthening the Association’s membership and development efforts."[27][28]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Ayman El-Mohandes". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  2. ^ "U.S. Pandemic Picture Continues to Improve". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  3. ^ West, Melanie Grayce. "New Yorkers Vaccinated Next Week Could Win $5 Million". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  4. ^ "Ayman El-Mohandes". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  5. ^ "Milken Institute School of Public Health Holds Sixth Annual 950 Awards Ceremony | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University". Milken Institute School of Public Health. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  6. ^ O'Connor, Tom (2013-05-31). "UNMC College of Public Health dean accepts New York position". Newsroom. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  7. ^ El-Mohandes, Ayman A. E.; Kiely, Michele; Gantz, Marie G.; El-Khorazaty, M. Nabil (2010-01-16). "Very Preterm Birth is Reduced in Women Receiving an Integrated Behavioral Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 15 (1): 19–28. doi:10.1007/s10995-009-0557-z. ISSN 1092-7875. PMC 2988881. PMID 20082130.
  8. ^ Kiely, Michele; El-Mohandes, Ayman A. E.; Gantz, Marie G.; Chowdhury, Dhuly; Thornberry, Jutta S.; El-Khorazaty, M. Nabil (2011-07-22). "Understanding the Association of Biomedical, Psychosocial and Behavioral Risks with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among African-Americans in Washington, DC". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 15 (S1): 85–95. doi:10.1007/s10995-011-0856-z. ISSN 1092-7875. PMC 3220795. PMID 21785892.
  9. ^ Lazarus, Jeffrey V.; Wyka, Katarzyna; White, Trenton M.; Picchio, Camila A.; Rabin, Kenneth; Ratzan, Scott C.; Parsons Leigh, Jeanna; Hu, Jia; El-Mohandes, Ayman (2022-07-01). "Revisiting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy around the world using data from 23 countries in 2021". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 3801. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.3801L. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31441-x. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 9247969. PMID 35778396.
  10. ^ Gostin, Lawrence O; Hodge, James G; Bloom, Barry R; El-Mohandes, Ayman; Fielding, Jonathan; Hotez, Peter; Kurth, Ann; Larson, Heidi J; Orenstein, Walter A; Rabin, Kenneth; Ratzan, Scott C; Salmon, Daniel (January 2020). "The public health crisis of underimmunisation: a global plan of action". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 20 (1): e11–e16. doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(19)30558-4. ISSN 1473-3099. PMID 31706795. S2CID 207965601.
  11. ^ El-Mohandes, Ayman; Ratzan, Scott C.; Rauh, Lauren; Ngo, Victoria; Rabin, Kenneth; Kimball, Spencer; Aaron, Barbara; Freudenberg, Nicholas (November 2020). "COVID-19: A Barometer for Social Justice in New York City". American Journal of Public Health. 110 (11): 1656–1658. doi:10.2105/ajph.2020.305939. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 7542288. PMID 32910679.
  12. ^ "CBS News/New York Times Second Presidential Debate Panel Survey, October 1988". ICPSR Data Holdings. 1989-09-26. doi:10.3886/icpsr09147.v2. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  13. ^ Raphson, Leon; Lipsitch, Marc (2024-01-29). "Estimated excess deaths due to COVID-19 among the urban population of Mainland China, December 2022 to January 2023". Epidemiology. doi:10.1097/ede.0000000000001723. ISSN 1044-3983. PMID 38300113. S2CID 267363228.
  14. ^ "Back Matter", A People's Guide to New York City, University of California Press, p. 376, 2022-01-25, doi:10.2307/j.ctv2j6xfj4.15, retrieved 2024-03-12
  15. ^ "Who We Are". NYC Pandemic Response Institute. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  16. ^ Porter, Rachel (2022-04-07). "ASPPH Announces the 2022-2023 Board of Directors Officers". Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  17. ^ "Who We Are". NYC Pandemic Response Institute. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  18. ^ Bashar (2023-08-16). "Watch: PRI Co-Lead Dean Ayman El-Mohandes Discusses the Recent COVID-19 Resurgence in NYC on NY1". NYC Pandemic Response Institute. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  19. ^ "The pandemic is not over: We ignore it at our own risk". The Hill. 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  20. ^ Lazarus, Jeffrey V.; Wyka, Katarzyna; White, Trenton M.; Picchio, Camila A.; Rabin, Kenneth; Ratzan, Scott C.; Parsons Leigh, Jeanna; Hu, Jia; El-Mohandes, Ayman (2022-07-01). "Revisiting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy around the world using data from 23 countries in 2021". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 3801. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.3801L. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31441-x. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 9247969. PMID 35778396.
  21. ^ Lazarus, Jeffrey V.; Ratzan, Scott C.; Palayew, Adam; Gostin, Lawrence O.; Larson, Heidi J.; Rabin, Kenneth; Kimball, Spencer; El-Mohandes, Ayman (2021-02-01). "A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine". Nature Medicine. 27 (2): 225–228. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-1124-9. ISSN 1546-170X. PMC 7573523. PMID 33082575.
  22. ^ El-Mohandes, Ayman. "Written Testimony from Dean Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy" (PDF). NY State Assembly. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  23. ^ "A global consensus on how to end COVID-19 as a public health threat". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  24. ^ Lazarus, Jeffrey V.; Romero, Diana; Kopka, Christopher J.; Karim, Salim Abdool; Abu-Raddad, Laith J.; Almeida, Gisele; Baptista-Leite, Ricardo; Barocas, Joshua A.; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Bar-Yam, Yaneer; Bassat, Quique; Batista, Carolina; Bazilian, Morgan; Chiou, Shu-Ti; del Rio, Carlos (2022-11-01). "A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat". Nature. 611 (7935): 332–345. Bibcode:2022Natur.611..332L. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05398-2. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 9646517. PMID 36329272.
  25. ^ "[At What Cost] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  26. ^ "Milken Institute School of Public Health Holds Sixth Annual 950 Awards Ceremony | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University". Milken Institute School of Public Health. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  27. ^ "AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION HONORS DEAN OF CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH WITH PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  28. ^ "APHA Executive Director's Citation". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
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