Dr Seif Salem Al-Abri

Director General of Disease Surveillance and Control, MoH, Oman

Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Royal Hospital, Oman

Dr Seif Salem Al-Abri studied medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and qualified in 1993. He did his training in Infectious diseases in Liverpool in the UK.

Dr Al-Abri is a practicing consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Hospital. He was appointed Director General for Disease Surveillance and Control at the Ministry of Health of Oman in 2014. He is the National Focal Point of IHR for Oman and is currently leading the national technical team for COVID 19 response. He is also a member of the IHR Review Committee that was convened by the WHO Director General, and a member of the Ministerial Technical Working Group for COVID-19 in WHO EMRO.

Dr Al-Abri has an interest in medical education and he is an international advisor for the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Lead Examiner for the MRCP (UK) Examination in Oman from 2011 until 2015. He was the chairman of the Governing Council of Oman Medical College from 2015 until 2018 and is currently a member of the governing council of the National University of Science and Technology. In addition, he is an associate editor of several medical journals.