DR.AMANY REFAAT, MD, MSc, MHPE, PH.D.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
· Ph.D.: Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt, Oct. 1993 (Equivalency to Ph.D. in public health from a regionally accredited institutions in the United States, Oct. 1996).
· MHPE: Master of health profession education, Center for Educational Development (CED) University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, 1987.
· M.Sc: Master of Science, Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt, May 1986.
· M.B.Bch: Bachelor of Medicine and surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams university, Egypt, Dec.1979
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
1-REPRODUCTIVE & WOMEN HEALTH:
· Principal investigator for Data Management in National project of “Women’s health problems in Egypt” National Population Council, June 2000-2002
· Member: Youth in the Middle East meetings, MEAwards Research Program in Population and Social Sciences and the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo, 1999-2001.
· Co-investigator in the “Female Genital Mutilation and Female Sexual Dysfunction research group” Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, 1999-2002
· Principal Investigator: Women empowerment: Definition and relationship with Fertility & Family planning. National Population Council, Egypt, 1997-98
· Co-Principal investigator: Impact of women education on reproductive health and child health" National Population Council, Egypt, 1997-98
· Co-investigator: Domestic violence in Egypt (WorldSAFE)/INCLEN, 1998-2000
2- MEDICAL EDUCATION & CURRICULUM DESIGN:
· Planner "Curriculum design" block , Master of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, 2002-
· Development of a model for planning the Community-based educational activities in the Ph.D. dissertation, 1992
· Planner & coordinator of Field training program in Faculty of Medicine Suez Canal University, 1982- 1998
· Planner & supervisor of students’ field projects in Faculty of Medicine Suez Canal University, 1982-present
· Consultant for 2 weeks at Western Cape University, Cape Town, South Africa, community participation project /Kellogg, June 1995
· Principal investigator of: the African and Asian experience for planning the community-based learning activities for medical schools. Network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences 1993-95.
· Planner of week III, V, at unite 6 (Community-based education) , Master of health profession education offered by University of Limburg, Netherlands starting from 1992.
· World health organization (WHO) consultant & supervisor of training course on curriculum development of Afghanistan medical school, FOMSCU, Nov. 1991 and in curriculum development of Ahfad medical school, at Om Durman, Sudan, August 1991.
· Consultant for curriculum development at Al-Faloga High Institute of Nursing, Palestinian Red Crescent, 1989-91
· Consultant at workshop on "innovative medical education" network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences /DSE, Harare, Zimbabwe, June 1987.
· Member of Africa -Asia leadership project, Network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences.1989-90.
· Member of task force III: student training in community health - care settings. FOMSCU/Network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences. 1985-89.
3- TRAINING & FACULTY DEVELOPMENT:
· Coordinator of 17th workshop 2003, Co-planner and organizer of 2nd to 16th international workshops " Community-based education incorporating problem-based learning" from 1987- 2002 and workshop coordinator for 17th (2003), Center for Research and Development of medical education and health services (CRD), FOMSCU.
· Lecturer on Team Building/ Conflict management in Regional workshops on Management for health professionals, CRD, 1999-present
· Coordinator of workshops on introducing new Faculty members FOMSCU to innovative medical education, CRD, April 2001, October 2000, July 1995, Dec. 1994
· Member of WHO study group on "community involvement in health development: challenging health services" WHO Technical report series # 809, 1991.
· Co-planner and organizer of educational training program for Democratic Yemen health personnel to acquire a diploma degree at health profession education. WHO/FOMSCU, (1989-1990).
· Co-planner and organizer of workshops on community-based education, problem-based learning, Faculty development unit, FOMSCU/CRD, since 1983.
4- COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT:
· Consultant (1996): Social & Health development project (Social & health development society at El-Tal El Kibeer /Social Fund of Egypt) training of community health workers, Health Information system components
· Project coordinator (1993-95): community participation in health promotion at district level. At El-Tal El-Kibeer, Ismailia, FOMSCU/IDRC, Board member of the project (1988-93), Supervisor of environmental health program & Community Health workers Training on maternal & child health promotion. And Women development program: economic development projects with Fredrich Nawoman organization.
· Member of Data for Decision Making Project (DDM) Harvard U./ Ministry of Health (Cost recovery) 1994/95.
5- ORGANIZATION:
· Member of the interviewing committee for selection of Hubert H. Humphrey fellowship applicants for year 2001/2, 2002/3, Fulbright commission, Egypt,
· Coordinator of Egyptian Hubert H. Humphrey alumni celebration by 20th Anniversary, Fulbright commission, Egypt, June 1999.
· Executive board member: Center for Research and Development (CRD) Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, 1996-present
· Coordinator of the 1st & 2nd Scientific Conferences of Community Medicine Department, Faculty Of Medicine, Suez Canal University, May1997,98
· Executive board member: University Partnership Projects Coordinating Center (UPP-CC/FOMSCU (1994-96)
· Coordinator and Co-planner of workshop on "leading reform in health profession education" Kellogg's foundation/ UPPCC FOMSCU ,March 1994
· Co-organizer of a "workshop on partnership development: Emphasis on community involvement" university partnership projects coordinating center (UPPCC) at FOMSCU/IDRC at Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, Feb.1994
· Co-planner and organizer of international workshop on "students' role at university partnership projects" at FOMSCU, organized by university partnership projects coordinating center (UPP-CC) at FOMSCU , Feb.1993.
· Co-planner and organizer of "Joint meeting of task force II &III FOMSCU/Network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences, Ismailia, May 1989.
· Co-planner and organizer of workshop on "student training in community health care settings "network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences. Pattaya,Thailand, September 1987
· Member of scientific committee "Orienting medical education towards health for all "FOMSCU, 1987.
· Member of organizing committee "symposium on evaluation of innovative curricula for health sciences "network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences/FOMSCU, Sept. 1985.
6- INTERNATIONAL HEALTH:
· Attendance of Short course on refugee and Human rights law, 16-21 July 2001, Forced migration and refugee studies, American University in Cairo (82%)
· Having 10 courses (24 credit hours) in International health, Women Health and Population, Tulane University, School of Public Health & Tropical medicine, New Orleans, LA, 1995-96.
CONFERENCES, COURSES & WORKSHOPS:
· Researchers workshop on " The unavoidable long-term effects of Female Circumcision as it is practiced in Egypt" Egyptian Fertility Care Society, Ain Al Sokhna, Egypt, March 2003
· Fulbright Conference on Women in the global community, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2002
· Training course on "Fundamentals of effective online teaching" Walden University July/August 2002
· Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop in Research Methodology in Reproductive Health, Egyptian Fertility Care Society/ UNDP / UNFPA / World Bank/ WHO, Ras Sudr, Egypt, February 2002
· Annual conference of Cairo Demographic Center, December 2001, Cairo, Egypt.
· Second conference of the National Women’s Council, Cairo, Egypt, March 2001
· Population Association of America (PAA) conferences, Los Angeles, March 2000; New Orleans, May 1996.
· Introducing Geographic information Systems (GIS) workshop, UCLA/PAA, March 2000.
· Census in Classroom: A hand –on workshop for college professors, PAA, March 2000
· Workshop on “Research proposal development, scientific papers writing and editing for biomedical journals”, WHO/CFAR, May 1999
· Humphrey workshop, Washington DC, Nov.1995; and Humphrey Leadership at Minnesota, June 1996.
· Workshop “Quality of life at Year 2000”, Atlanta, March 1996
· Martin L. King non violence, King center, March 1996
· 24th annual Psychosocial workshop (PAA), New Orleans, May 1996
· Attendance of Arab Regional Population Conference, International Union for Scientific Study of Population, Cairo, Dec.1996
· "Educating future physicians for Ontario (EFPO)" conference, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 1995
· 1st & 2nd workshops on Using cost effectiveness analysis to identify a package of priority health interventions. Harvard University, Ismailia, 1994, Port Said. January 1995
· Conference of the Network of Community Oriented Educational Institutions for Health Sciences, Ismailia /Egypt 1985, Pattaya/Thailand 1987, Maastricht/ Netherlands 1989, Ilorin/Nigeria 1991
· Member of telecommunication project. Network of community oriented educational institutions for health sciences.1989-90.
· The 8th CAMAS Conference on "Health of the mother and child in Africa" Accra, Ghana, December 1990, 3rd conference on “Primary Health Care” Cotonou, Benin, 1985.
COMPUTER SKILLS
· Teaching on line
· Statistical analysis: SPSS, Epinfo, SAS, BMDP, EASEVAL.
· Word processing, Spreadsheets,. Graphics
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
· Egyptian Medical Syndicate
· Egyptian Community Medicine society
· Population Association of America (PAA)
· International Union for Scientific Studies of Population (IUSSP)
· International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH)
· Egyptian society of health research for development (Founding member and board member 1990-93, 1995-98, 2000-03).
· Society of health and social development at el-Tal El Kibeer District (Founding member and vice-president, 1995)
AWARDS RECEIVED
· Golden medal and certificate for excellent performance from the Egyptian medical syndicate, March 1985.
PUBLICATIONS:
· Refaat, A: Healthy life style among university youth: Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine, April 2002; 20(2): 49-57
· Refaat, A; Dandash K; El defrawi M and Eyada M: Female genital mutilation and domestic violence among Egyptian women. J Sex Marital Ther 2001 Oct- Dec; 27 (5) 593-8
· Refaat AH; Dandash KF; Lotfy G; Eyada M: Attitudes of medical students towards female genital mutilation. J Sex Marital Ther 2001 Oct-Dec;27(5):589-91
· El-Defrawi MH; Lotfy G; Dandash KF; Refaat AH; Eyada M: Female genital mutilation and its psychosexual impact J Sex Marital Ther 2001 Oct-Dec;27(5):465-73
· Dandash KF; Refaat AH; Eyada M: Female genital mutilation: a prospective view. J Sex Marital Ther 2001 Oct-Dec;27(5):459-64
· Refaat, A: Safety, Violence and Suicde: The unssen dangers among Egyptian university students. Egyptian journal of Community Medicine, July 2001; 19(3):51-67
· Hassan F, Refaat A and El Defrawi M: Domestic violence against women in an urban area, Ismailia, Egypt. Egypt. J. Psychiat. July, 2000
· Feletti G; Jaafar R; Joseph A; Magzoub M; McHarney-Brwon C; Omonesi K; Refaat A; Waches J and Schmidt H: Community-based Curriculum design: Examples and perspectives. Handbook of Community-Based Education: theory and practices. Network Publications, edited by Henk Schmidt; Mohi magzoub; Graham Felitti; Zohair Nooman and Pauline Vluggen, 2000, p 121-146
· Feletti G; Jaafar R; Joseph A; Magzoub M; McHarney-Brwon C; Omonesi K; Refaat A; Waches J and Schmidt H: Implementation of Community-based Curricula. Handbook of Community-Based Education: theory and practices. Network Publications, edited by Henk Schmidt; Mohi magzoub; Graham Felitti; Zohair Nooman and Pauline Vluggen, 2000, p 147-200
· Refaat A, Dandash K, and El Defrawi M: Domestic Violence and Female Genital Mutilation. Egypt. J. Psychiat. July 1999.
· Hassan F, Refaat A, El-Sayed H, and.El Defrawi M: Disciplinary practices and child maltreatment among Egyptian families in Ismailia city: Egypt. J. Psychiat. July 1999
· Refaat A & Dandash K,: Work as a determinant for women's care of their health. Suez Canal University Medical Journal, vol. 2, no 1, March 1999
· Refaat A, Dandash K, El-Defrawi M, LaRosa J: Burnout Syndrome among Egyptian physicians: Gender and place perspectives. Egypt. J. Psychiat. 1999, 22 (1): 81-90
· Refaat A & Dandash K: Women's empowerment: Assessment and relationship with fertility and use of family planning. "Understanding Demographic Behavior in Egypt: Studies from the Demographic and Health Survey, 1995". Final Report. September 1998. National Population Council. Editor: Scott Moreland. P: 202-221.
· Dandash K & Refaat A: Impact of Women's Education on reproductive health and child survival. "Understanding Demographic Behavior in Egypt: Studies from the Demographic and Health Survey, 1995". Final Report. September 1998. National Population Council. Editor: Scott Moreland. P: 2-24.
· Refaat A: Reproductive health: The Community-Based educational approach. Proceeding of the International Conference on Population and Reproductive health in the Muslim world. February 21-24, 1998. P. 165-171.
· Refaat A, Lotfy G and Kamal A: Introducing Female Genital Mutilation to medical students. Proceeding of the Ninth International Congress on Women's Health Issues. June, 1998, p 1- 12
· Abd El All H, Talaat W and Refaat A: Expression of NM23 H1 Product in Colonic Adenocarcinoma: Correlation with Ploidy and clinical staging. Journal of Egyptian Society of Pathologists. 18 (1) June 1998, p. 121-133
· Talaat W, Abd El-All H and RefaatA: Prognostic significance of angiogenesis in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the cervix. Journal of Egyptian Society of Pathologists. 18 (1) June 1998, p. 113-120
· Refaat A: Evaluation of service utilization and cost-effectiveness of family planning provision, Egypt. The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine, Vol. 15 (2), Sept. 1998, p. 11-20
· Refaat A; Ahmed S and Moustafa H: Healthy Life Style among employed women" Women International Public Health Network, Vol 22, Winter 1997, p11
· Refaat A and Ezzat E ,: Impact of partnership for health promotion on rural women development. Bulletin of High Institute of Public Health, Vol.27 No.1 January 1997 (Supple): 278-283
· Refaat A. "Planning community-based medical education" Changing medical education and medical practice. WHO, bulletin # 4, Dec..1993,
· Refaat A and Nooman Z: Educational gain of students training at community health care settings. Annals of community oriented education. 1990 (3),II.
· Refaat A & Ezzat E "Factors influence the commitment of faculty members to the concept of community based education". Annals of community oriented education. 1990 (3) Part II.
· Nooman Z; Refaat A & Ezzat E: Experience in community-based education at the faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University". Innovation in medical education: an evaluation of its present status. Ed. Zohair Nooman, Henk Schmidt & Esmat Ezzat. Springer publishing company. New York .1990
· Refaat A, Richards R & Nooman Z: A model for planning a community based medical school curriculum" Annals of community oriented education. July 1989
· Refaat A: Survey among general practitioners in Suez Canal Zone on urinary tract infection. Chemioterapia 1987 Jun;6(2 Suppl):499
· Refaat A et al: Four years of experience of community based education in faculty of medicine, Suez Canal University. Proceeding of 1985 CAMAS congress. Cotonou, Benin 1985.
PRESENTATIONS
· Amany Refaat: Single mothers' care for self and own children' health among five developing countries. Fulbright Conference on Women in the global community, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2002
· Amany Refaat: Youth and pre marital examination program. Annual conference of Cairo Demographic Center, December 2001, Cairo, Egypt.
· Amany Refaat: Practice and Perception of health risk behavior among university students. Workshop on: Life Opportunities for Youth in the Region: Aspirations and Concerns November 2000, Cairo, Egypt
· Amany Refaat: Globalization, economic development and reproductive choices among Mediterranean women. The Hubert H. Humphrey meeting at Malta, September 2000.
· Amany Refaat: Introducing reproductive health to medical students, Annual Community Medicine conference, June 2000. Cairo, Egypt
· Amany Refaat: They accepted violence when they accepted female circumcision, Population Association of America (PAA), March 2000, LA, USA.
· Amany Refaat: Reproductive choices of Egyptian Working women. Annual conference of Cairo Demographic Center, November, 1999 Cairo, Egypt.
· Amany Refaat: Reproductive health among University Students. Presented at seminar of “Health of the Youth” at SRC/AUC, Cairo, June1999
· Amany Refaat: Role of NGO at Health Promotion" Emory University Atlanta,USA March 1996
· Amany Refaat; Samir El-Shazly.; Anwar Abd El Sattar. & Tharwat Nafeh,.(1994) Facing the challenge of having a safe environment at El-Tal El-Kibeer ,Ismailia. 5th international symposium on neuro-behavioral methods and effects in occupational and environmental health, Cairo,December1994
LANGUAGES
· Arabic: Mother Tongue
· English: Fluent
· French: Fair
TRANSLATION
· Translation to Arabic WHO technical series # 780 "Strengthening the performance of community health workers in primary health care" 1989.
· Revision of the Arabic version of WHO technical series # 746 "Community based education of health personnel". 1987
ACADEMIC VISITS
· UN University (Leadership Academy), Amman, Jordan, September 2002
· World Bank (Economic Development Institute), Washington, DC, Nov 1995
· McMaster University , Canada , Nov. 1995
· Morehouse Medical school, Atlanta, March 1996
· Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 1996.
· University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand December, 1989
· University of Gadja Mada, Indonesia, December, 1989.
TRAVEL
USA, Canada, Benin, Nigeria, Sudan, England, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Netherlands, Singapore, Indonesia, Ghana, South Africa, Jordan, Turkey.