It gives us great pleasure in announcing our very Peter Dicce as leading one of the conference workshops at PHTT 2018! Peter W. Dicce, J.D., M.Ed, is the Assistant Dean of Students & Director of Athletics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Since the university’s inception in 2010, Pete set the vision and provided leadership for the […]
We are excited to announce the third speaker of the PHTT 2018 conference, Dr. Afzalhussein Yusufali! Dr. Yusufali currently works as consultant physician and chief cardiologist at Dubai Health Authority (DHA). He also conducts research in Cardiology. He is currently working on the “Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study”, which was established to investigate […]
We are excited to announce that the application form for Public Health Think Tank 2018 is now live! All applicants willing to participate in the conference must send in their applications by October 9. Please find the application available here. The conference will take place November 2-3, 2018 at NYU Abu Dhabi. We wish you […]
In 2014, the World Health Organization report on the UAE indicated that 30% of mortality was the result of the presence of a cardiovascular disease. Moreover, all of the pressing adult risk factors identified regarding the nation’s public health were directly or indirectly related to the presence of CVDs. A considerable percentage of those affected […]
Cardiovascular diseases are among the top killers of the UAE population as they accounted for more than 25% of all deaths in the UAE in 2010, and their effect only increases with time. This is not very surprising considering the lifestyle of a large part of the UAE’s population, which is significantly correlated to the […]
On a global scale, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death, killing an estimated 17.7 million people each year. This accounts for 31% of all deaths worldwide. For hypertension specifically, 22 out of every 100 individuals fall prey to this serious risk factor. In the UAE, CVDs are the leading cause of death […]
Public health is a holistic cohort of organisations, individuals, interventions, policies and practices aimed at improving the health, safety and overall well-being of the community. The Public Health Think Tank is a two-day conference that provides an intellectually stimulating platform for university students from around the UAE to join forces in tackling the most pressing […]