Grand Rounds: Implementation Research and Global Health — the experience of IDRC in reproductive, maternal, child, adolescent health and in health information systems
Montasser Kamal, MD, PhD
International Development Research Centre
March 14, 2018
4:00pm – 5:30pm
CUNY Graduate School of PublicHealth and Health Policy
55 West 125th Street, 7th Floor Auditorium
New York, NY 10550
Dr. Montasseris the Program Leader for the Maternal and Child Health team at Canada’sInternational Development Research Centre. Before joining IDRC, Dr. Montasser wasthe Deputy Director for Global Health Policy and Research at Global AffairsCanada. He also worked at the former Canadian International Development AgencyCIDA as the Team Leader of the Health Specialists, and brings experience as aReproductive Health Policy Advisor and as Manager of Multilateral HealthInstitutions and Partnerships. Between 2007-2014 he work at the RegionalOfficeof the Ford Foundation in Cairo where he was a Senior Program Officer forReproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in part supporting implementation research. Dr.Montasser’s areas of interest and expertise include implementation research,sexual and reproductive health and rights, health systems strengthening,promoting greater government accountability, and knowledge generation and dissemination.
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