Dr Osman Dar

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 Health. Internationally, Osman is a Senior Advisor on Policy and Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. 

In addition, he is a working group co-chair at the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), where 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.