AlJawhara Mohammad AlKhaled Al-Sabah, Dr.PH, MPH, CPH

• Instructorship | MD/MPH Healthcare Management Track
• Designed and conducted a bi-weekly quantitative research methods workshop for MPH graduate students requiring additional support in Applied Biostatistics and Outcomes Research
• Taught two live, long-distance Master courses during the Fall 2023 semester, focusing on Accounting/Budgeting for Public Health Administration & Public Sector System Behavior, as well as Program Planning, Health Policy & Operational Management for Public Health Organizations for a cohort of 22+ medical students in the dual MD/MPH degree program presently enrolled part-time in the track-specific MPH degree program in Healthcare Management
• Offered courses in the Fall 2023 semester: Track-specific course elective for MPH students in the Healthcare Management specialty concentration | Strategic & Program Management (3 credits); and Track-specific course requirement for MPH students in the Healthcare Management specialty concentration | Managed Care and Healthcare Reform (3 credits)
• Prepared syllabi, homework assignments, and class handouts to create stimulating discussions
• Motivated students, assigned topical papers, and measured progress
• Used creative and engaging teaching techniques to inspire students from various public health backgrounds and increased practical skills and knowledge from the classroom process
• Lectured on the application of different theories of organizational analysis, organizational behavior, and financial analysis to managing and leading public health and health organizations
• Assigned group assignments to encourage the students' development skills in team management, collaboration, and leadership to help them as future physicians to successfully effect change at multiple levels
• Instructed heavily on how to appropriately manage various healthcare payment methodologies for diverse at-risk populations
• Introduced lesson concepts on how to develop market analyses of population-based problems and be able to initiate community partnerships in service development and evaluation
• Instructed students on the design, implementation, and management of cost-effective health programs and projects
• Scheduled specific days of the week in the course syllabi which are fully dedicated to a lesson plan solely covering the U.S. healthcare system vis-à-vis broad concepts of analytics based on data sciences and information systems technology
• Discussed the application of quantitative methods to support business decision-making in management, planning, operations, and strategic initiatives
• Held regular office hours and hosted impromptu, on-demand Zoom study groups to further discuss specific concepts

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | Public Health Policy & Management
• Taught two Master-level courses on the Basic Principles & Tools of Budget and Resource Management, Evaluation Methods for Public Health Program Assessment, and Measuring Effectiveness & Efficacy of Population-Based Health Interventions to 20+ graduate students enrolled in the MPH degree program at the Department of Public Health Policy and Management
• Had privilege of serving as Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow of two graduate program specialty tracks at the Department of Public Health Policy and Management: (i) MPH degree program in Public Health Management concentration, and (ii) MPH degree program in Public Health Policy concentration
• Taught in Fall 2022 | Course requirement for MPH students in the Public Health Policy concentration: Program Planning and Evaluation (3 credits)
• Taught a live, online course in Spring 2023 | Course requirement for MPH students in the Public Health Management concentration: Designing & Managing Organizations in Public Health (3 credits)
• Participated in the 2022 New York Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (fellowship appointment of foreign national recipients offered for one year instead of two)
• Reiterated foundational concepts continuously; ensuring students will be prepared to develop, implement, and evaluate policies and management strategies in healthcare and public health
• Discussed the management and control of public health organizational assets, long-term financing, principles of monetary management, budgeting, cost analysis, sources of operating revenue, and management of patient accounts
• Taught various management theories applicable in organizational operations, including leadership styles of directors/managers; covering additional topics such as the application of leadership principles and management to work with and across organizations, sectors, and agencies
• Introduced frameworks of operations research relevant in the design of organizations in public health; incorporating best practices in the supervision of professional teams, rules of procedure for program evaluations, and principles of fiscal accountability to support middle managers in public health/healthcare services organizations
• Discussed processes for developing and implementing policies and programs to improve the health status of populations, especially vulnerable groups
• Dedicated sufficient class time for the hands-on training of students in different evaluation mechanisms of public policies and programs that promote health and health equity
• Presented various principles and tools of budgeting and resource management to improve the performance of public health and healthcare delivery organizations
• Addressed principles of strategic management and the application of these principles to public health
• Covered managerial and administrative methods for analyzing the main components and challenges in organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare and public health services
• Described and explained the general legalities involved in public health impartation and provision of health services; touching on the legal basis of each
• Year-long (foreign national) Post-Doc Faculty Fellow temporarily appointed as “Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow” at the Department of Public Health Policy and Management for duration of fellowship tenure; taking advantage of several mentorship opportunities to help prepare for an academic career

Kuwait University (KU) Public Health Scholarship Program: Master's and Doctorate studies

• Student | Graduate Department of Public Health - Division of Health Policy & Management
• Applied health economic methods, financing theories, analytical approaches, and legal and ethical principles and values to the development and implementation of public health programs as well as to the conduct of health policy and systems research in order to improve health services and the delivery of care
• Evaluated and applied the biopsychosocial model of healthcare as a theoretical paradigm to understand potential biological, psychological, and social determinants of health, illness, and disease
• Studied frameworks to deliver public health services and interventions
• Designed pilot studies to monitor the quality, impact, and outcomes of public health interventions and programs
• Created and applied evaluation frameworks to measure baseline performance indicators and assess the impact of health interventions and programs
• Examined the historical, psychosocial, and environmental causes of health disparities in the strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of health and intervention programs
• Conducted quantitative data analysis, oversaw statistical inference, and created empirical models in Stata/SPSS
• Conducted qualitative exploratory research and wrote transcript coding in NVivo and Dedoose for thematic evaluation
• Identified high-risk groups, current susceptibility levels in communities, modes of pathogen transmission, and adverse health effects of infectious diseases at the population level and at the individual patient level
• Applied principles of evidence-based public health practices to develop suitable preventive interventions targeting incidence rate, establish therapeutic interventions targeting case fatality rate or reducing disease-associated disability and morbidity, implement cost-effective disease control programs, evaluate public policies, recommend contextually relevant strategies, and inform decisionmakers to support alleviation efforts of disease burden
• Determined and interpreted relevant analytical tests for both quantitative and qualitative data, including written and oral presentations based on these analyses
• Collaborated with colleagues on several journal publications as primary author of academic papers, published original scientific articles as sole author; designed, planned, and conducted different quantitative/mixed methods research studies, and performed numerous data analysis
• Submitted successful evidence-based technical reports to scholarly journals; communicated results of assessment efforts while provided a rationale for research proposals and evaluations to lay, professional, and policy audiences
• Integrated environmental health considerations into the practice and analysis of public health issues
• Applied the epidemiologic analysis of disease determinants and distributions to the development, implementation and review of public health policy
• Integrated ethical, economic, and political considerations in the development of public health policies to improve the health status of populations
• Identified, monitored, and evaluated emerging trends in the organization, financing and delivery of healthcare services
• Obtained, synthesized, and critically evaluated scholarly literature and other sources of evidence-based data including research presentations, working papers, and government documents
• Determined and defined several linkages between health and economic policies and their potential roles in mitigating health and healthcare disparities
• Identified the intended and unintended consequences of health and economic policies on population health, healthcare disparities, and the allocation of scarce clinical resources
• Integrated interdisciplinary theories and research findings to improve quality and access to healthcare and enhance population health
• Strategically planned, implemented, and evaluated health programs and preventive intervention policies
• Interpreted and explained study results and research findings to various audiences; including academics, policy-makers, healthcare professionals, and the wider public
• Successfully defended and published a doctoral dissertation research project entitled: ‘High Spending, Poor Productivity Gains!' Assessing Public Health System (In)Efficiency and Hospital Performance in The State of Kuwait: Would More Private Delivery Improve Healthcare?

• Principal Investigator (PI), Widad Al-Nakib, PhD
• Focused on Research and Laboratory Methodologies of clinical virology, molecular diagnostics, and screening
• Research work: “Viral Load of Human Papillomavirus in Kuwaiti Women with Normal and Abnormal Cervical Cytology”
• Conducted many different rigorous Confirmatory Diagnostic Testing Procedures at the Clinical Microbiology Unit
• MERS-CoV sequencing project (2013)
• Molecular testing of polyomavirus BK and JC in transplant patients
• Sequencing of polyomaviruses detected in kidney transplant recipient.

• Principal Investigator (PI), Fung-Lung Chung, PhD
• Clinical Laboratory Sciences concentrated on cancer-host interactions research and cell signalling pathways
• Research project: “The Effects of Thiol-Reactive Compounds on Tubulin Degradation”
• Worked in the Carcinogenesis, Biomarkers & Epidemiology Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Culturing of human cancer cell lines and isothiocyanate (ITC) cell treatments
• Immunoblotting of cell lysates and caspase-3 activity assay
• RT-PCR of whole cell RNA and gel electrophoresis of beta-actin transcripts.

• Research Advisor, Robert A. Weinberg, PhD
• Contributed towards Cancer Stem Cell Research focusing on metastatic progression and tumor propagation modeling
• Research study: “Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)-inducing Transcription Factors and the Stem-Cell State”
• Conducted protocols at the Cancer Genetics & Genomics Unit at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Cloned EMT-inducing transcription factors (Snail, Zeb, Slug) into pTK-380 vectors with inducible tetracycline response elements
• Preformed in-vivo analysis of EMT formation in mice post pTK-380 injection
• Culturing of MCF7ras cells and treatment with RNAi-mediated gene knockdown of Zeb, Snail and Slug transcription factors
• Real time RT-PCR analysis and Matrigel invasion assays