Dr Ihad Habib

Ihab Habib is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Food Safety, and Veterinary Public Health at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). He founded and leads the Veterinary Public Health Research Laboratory, established in 2019. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology at Murdoch University, Australia. His research centers on One Health, food safety from farm to fork, foodborne antimicrobial resistance, and the epidemiology and risk assessment of Campylobacter and Salmonella at the human-food interface. Ihab Habib holds dual citizenship in Australia and Egypt, graduating from Alexandria University (Egypt) in 2000. He completed postgraduate studies including an MSc in Food Safety from Birmingham University (UK), a Master in Public Health from Alexandria University (Egypt), an MSc in Epidemiological Data Analysis from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium), and a Ph.D. from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2010. Ihab Habib has held academic and research roles in Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. He has co-authored over 85 Scopus-listed articles on zoonoses, food safety, and antimicrobial resistance. He contributed as an expert for the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meetings on Risk Assessment in Food (JEMRA) in 2022 and 2023, focusing on controlling Campylobacter and non-typhoidal Salmonella in poultry meat.