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Profile: Dr. Al-Shorbaji joined the World Health Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMR) in 1988 when he worked for its Regional Centre for Environmental Health Activities in Amman, Jordan as Information Scientist. He has been working for the Regional Office since 1994 in different capacities. Currently he is the Coordinator, Knowledge Management and Sharing for EMRO.
In his current capacity at the Regional Office, Dr. Al-Shorbaji is responsible for coordination, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Regional Programme on Knowledge Management and Sharing in the areas of health informatics, medical librarianship, publishing, language services, health and biomedical literature, medical records, telecommunications and telemedicine.
Dr. Al-Shorbaji has developed in collaboration with other WHO offices the WHO Global Private Network, the wide area network of WHO Representative Offices, EMR Knowledge Network and e-health projects in the Region in addition to technical assistance to many countries to develop their health libraries, telemedicine, healthcare informatics, electronic health records, health decision support centers and geographic information systems. He is a member of over 15 professional societies and associations. Has published over 80 conference papers, chapters and articles. His special interest is the use of information and communication technology for health and development. |
