Professor Wael Al-Delaimy

Wael Al-Delaimy is a professor of Public Health at the University of California Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health. He is a multidisciplinary chronic diseases epidemiologist working with vulnerable communities locally and globally, focusing on climate change, mental health, and research ethics. He directs four large US federal programs on climate change, training of community health workers, and research ethics. He is the Director of the NIH Newly Funded Global Center on Climate Change and Water, Energy, Food, and Health Systems, and Joint Director of the Geo Health Hub on Climate and Health in the Middle East and North Africa. His work on climate change involves global capacity building, health policy, and the role of water and climate variables on health. He also is leading the Research Ethics Training Program in Jordan and the Middle East since 2015 with over 118 fellows trained from 13 countries and launched the first Master in Bioethics in the Middle East.