努里·阿拉姆

Noore Alam is a senior epidemiologist and a public health expert with over 30 years of technical and leadership experience with the Australian Government (20 years) and internationally with WHO and several other UN agencies. Currently, he is the One Health focal point at the Public Health Intelligence Branch, Queensland Health, Australia. In 2022-23, he was the WHO Technical Officer for influenza and other high-threat pathogens of epidemic and pandemic potential in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO). Prior to this, he was the COVID-19 Contact Tracing Sub-Pillar Lead with WHO, where he led the development of the global contact tracing policy guidance. In 2020-2021, he was seconded into the Queensland Government COVID-19 Incident Management Team where he served as Epidemiology Team Lead. Noore's public health career can be characterized as versatile, challenging, and impactful. He has worked extensively from grassroots-level “shoe-leather” epidemiology to more challenging state-level (Queensland) and superior global health policy, systems development, and capacity development roles. He worked extensively in a broad spectrum of public health: (1) communicable diseases (2) chronic diseases (3) epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response through One Health approach; (4) monitoring and evaluation and (5) emergency management. He holds the degrees of Master of Applied Epidemiology from the Australian National University, Master of Public Health from the University of Sydney, and Master of Social Sciences (Sociology) with Honours from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. His current PhD research assesses country capacities to apply the One Health approach to prevent, detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases at the human-animal-environment interface. Noore Alam is an Editorial Borad Member for the Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease journal. Since 2015, he has been a collaborator for the Global Burden of Disease Study.