Dr Najeeb Al Shorbaji

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji has been working as a volunteer and consultant in eHealth (digital health), knowledge management and medical librarianship since March 2017. He worked as Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research Department at the World Health Organization (WHO/HQ) between September 2008 and August 2015. Between February 1988 and August 2008, he worked as Coordinator for Knowledge Management and Sharing, Regional Advisor for Health and Information and Telecommunication and Information Scientist at the WHO Regional Office in Amman, Alexandria, and Cairo. He has held a PhD in Information Science since 1986 from the UK.

He has published over 225 research papers, book chapters and presentations and attended, presented at, and delivered keynote addresses in over 190 professional conferences and seminars. He is advisor to the eMarefa project. He is the President of the Jordan eHealth Development Association, President of the Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Association, a part-time lecturer at the PLRI Institute of Medical Informatics at TUB, Germany, Visiting Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt, Emeritus Fellow, AHRO University, Glasgow UK, an Honorary member of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). Until July 2023, he acted as the Vice-President of (IMIA) for MEDINFO23. He is a member of several national, regional, and international scientific associations and committees. He is editor and peer reviewer of several specialized scientific journals.