Biography
Osman Dar is Associate Fellow with the Global Health Programme. His primary focus is on supporting the institute’s One Health projects including multi-sectoral collaboration for the prevention and control of outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, emerging infections and antimicrobial resistance. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (London), specialized in public health medicine and communicable disease control.
In his role at the UK Health Security Agency, Osman is a senior consultant physician in global public health. There he works on health crises prevention and control, programmes to support low- and middle-income countries build International Health Regulations-related (IHR) core capacities, and in developing broader Health System Strengthening (HSS) initiatives.
Internationally, Osman is co-chair for the working group at the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP). He advises WHO, OIE, FAO and UNEP on the development of their global One Health strategies, including their joint activities on pandemic prevention and the control of emerging zoonoses and other health crises at the human-animal-environment interface. He also serves on the World Bank Pandemic Fund (PF) technical advisory panel.
Past experience
2015–present | Director, One Health Project, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House |
2013–present | Consultant in Global Health, UK Health Security Agency |
2011–present | Academic Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |