Dr. Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi
Member - Scientific Committee
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Qatar
Dr. Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in Qatar. He obtained his PhD in Health Services Research from the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Canada in 2011. Back in Canada, he was awarded the prestigious Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR Doctoral Research Award), and subsequently two CIHR operating grants, and a supplementary grant to support his research. His collaborative research has resulted in many publications on topics including health information systems, obesity, chronic diseases, sampling methodology. Some of his previous work involved coordinating a patient safety indicator project of the International Methodology Consortium on Coded Health Information. While working as Health Outcomes Measurement Lead at the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA), in collaboration with the Institute of Health Economics, Dr. Ngwakongnwi planned, acted as Scientific Co-chair and hosted an International Symposium on the topic: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement in Alberta: Potential of the EQ-5D. The talk drew panelists from the UK, USA, and Canada wide.
He is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) in Calgary as well as a member of IMECCHI. WHOCC has rich experiences on national wide surveillance. Specifically, WHOCC team developed techniques of identifying hypertensive Canadians within national administrative health data in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada. While attending an IMMECCHI meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom on October 19 to 21, 2015, Dr. Ngwakongnwi presented on the need for IMMECHI to enhance collaboration with Research Scientists in Qatar. After this time, he secured funding from QNRF to host the first IMMECCHI event in Qatar in January 2017, entitled, “Data Science for Health and Healthcare: a Canada – Qatar Collaboration Symposium.”
His scholarly activity includes teaching and mentoring students in the nursing program in Qatar. Courses taught include: Social Determinants of Health and Introduction to Statistical Inquiry. Other teaching interests include, research methods, epidemiology, health information systems, program planning and evaluation. Dr Ngwakongnwi has numerous peer review publications, conference abstracts and has been invited to a number of presentations.
