RAWAF

Professor Salman Rawaf qualified in medicine with training in paediatrics and public health.  Prof Rawaf is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training and is well known for his international work and contribution to global health. He is an adviser to the World Health Organisation on primary care, public health, health systems, medical education and human resource for health development.  The Collaborating Centre supports several WHO Regions and their Member States. 

Professor Rawaf is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians London and the UK Faculty of Public Health and Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland.  He is the UK Faculty of Public Health Global Health Adviser, an Executive Member of the International Committee of the UK Academy of the Royal Medical Colleges, a Member of WHO Advisory Committee for Health research, and Programme Leader of the Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Family Medicine Middlesex University. He is an Honorary Professor at Ghent University, Belgium.  Salman’s contributions to public health and primary care in research and service delivery are well known.  He is recognised for his work in supporting countries to strengthen their health systems and service development including Bahrain, Brazil, Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Oman, Poland, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Palestine, Qatar and Yemen.

Among the many innovative approaches is Staying Healthy: a programme to assess risk factors for chronic diseases in community settings and enable individuals to engage in their own health.

Professor Rawaf is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Health Medicine and a member of a number editorial boards and has published several scientific papers, two books and many international reports. 

Dr Mustafa Rawaf is an Associate Medical Director for Altea Research. He received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychobiology at the University of California Los Angeles. He then received a Master’s Degree in Medical Science from Boston University, where his thesis on racial disparities in the treatment of hypertension was published in the Journal of the National Medical Association. He went on to earn his Medical Degree at Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pomona, CA. Dr. Rawaf relocated to Las Vegas in 2010 to complete his residency training in psychiatry at the University Of Nevada School Of Medicine. He served as Chief Resident during his final year of residency. Upon completing his residency program in 2014, Dr. Rawaf joined Focus Mental Health Solutions.

Dr. Rawaf is actively seeing patients in the inpatient, emergency room, and outpatient settings. He has been a Sub-Investigator conducting clinical trials at Altea Research since 2013, where he now serves as Associate Medical Director. Fluent in Spanish and Arabic, Dr. Rawaf is passionate about working in under-served communities. His areas of special interest include bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and consult liaison psychiatry.

David Laith Rawaf is a surgeon, researcher, technologist, innovator and policy developer.

Having studied and worked in both UK and the US, David has active academic & honorary roles for Imperial College, World Health Organisation, the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, Royal College of Surgeons England, Association for Surgical Education, and The Society for Simulation in Healthcare, amongst many others.

With medical and clinical director roles in healthtech, he holds dynamic responsibilities spanning academic research, accreditation, thought leadership, product development and validation, marketing and business strategy.

David also holds multiple director roles on both philanthropic and venture capital advisory boards in addition to co-founder, clinical advisory & chair roles for various healthtech & medtech startups.

In his spare time, David is an avid session musician & enjoys keeping fit!