Salman Rawaf

Salman Rawaf is a professor of public health at Imperial College London. He is the director of Imperial's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) for Public Health Education and Training, established in 2007 as part of the School of Public Health. He is notable for his work on global health, having served as WHO advisor to governments in the Middle East and elsewhere, including on response committees during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a member of the WHO's HRH Leadership Hub, advising the WHO in regards to their HRH curriculum. Most of his earlier career was spent in paediatric and public health training and directorships in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

Biography

Between 1988 and 2009, Rawaf served as Director of Public Health for Wandsworth in south-west London, as well as Merton and Sutton in 1998–99. Since then, he has worked as a professor of public health at Imperial College London and as the director of the university’s WHO Collaborating Centre. including work in the Eastern Mediterranean. and is an Honorary Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and Ghent University in Belgium. and is the current President of the International Association of Medical Colleges.

In 2015 Rawaf was awarded a Life Achievement Award in Healthcare Excellence by the Indus Foundation, an Indian non-profit promoting higher education.