Ali Ardalan

Regional Adviser and Head of Health Systems in Emergencies Lab, WHO/EMRO

Dr. Ali Ardalan, MD, PhD is a public health professional with about two decades of experience in arena of health emergency management at various managerial, policy making, advisory and academic capacities. Currently he is the Regional Adviser and Head of the Health Systems in Emergencies Lab at WHO EMRO, with a focus on health systems recovery from emergencies, operationalization of humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and promoting health of refugees and migrants in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Dr Ardalan was the founding chair and Professor at the Department of Disaster Public Health at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Senior Fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health.