Qatar University Life Sciences Symposium 2025

Qatar University Life Sciences Symposium 2025. Professor Laith J. Abu-Raddad is a Professor of Population Health Sciences and the founding leader of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University. His distinguished academic career is highlighted by numerous high-impact studies published in prestigious journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, The Lancet and its associated journals, JAMA, and Nature Medicine. His research spans a broad spectrum of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and SARS. With a body of work comprising 413 publications, he has achieved a citation h-index of 79/93 (Scopus/Google Scholar), with over 110,000/140,000 citations. His research has made a significant and lasting impact on public health policies and strategies at the national, regional, and global levels, and he has served as an expert advisor to different international organizations. The findings of his studies have garnered extensive coverage in the international press and media.