Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Salah Thabit Al Awaidy

Office of HE of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman

Biography

Salah Thabit Al Awaidy is a Communicable Diseases Adviser in Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Oman. He is a medical doctor and holds a Master’s in Epidemiology. He is currently the adviser of Communicable Disease Surveillance, Elimination and Eradication of Communicable Diseases of Public Health Importance, EPI, vaccine supply chain system and IHR at the Ministry of Health, Oman. He also currently serves as IHR Emergency Committee on Polio and MERS-CoV. He has authored or been the co-author of over 35 publications on a large variety of health topics.

Publications

Epidemiology of Pandemic H1N1 in Oman and Public Health Response, 2009

A retrospective study of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Oman was completed to describe the epidemiology of pandemic influenza A, subtype H1N1 activity (pH1N1). From June to December 2009, 8,941 specimens were collected nationwide from patients that met the case definition for ILI, of which 6,547 (73%) were tested for pH1N1 by real-time polymerase ... Read More»

Salah Thabit Al Awaidy, Idris Al Obeidani, Jeffrey V. Singh, Salim Al Mahrouqi, Suleiman Salim Al Busaidy, Said Al Baqlani and Robert D. Allison

Research Article: J Community Med Health Educ 5:343

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000343

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