Past Events

by
Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar A Bhutta, FRS

Founding Director, Institute for Global Health & Development, the Aga Khan University, South-Central Asia, East Africa & United Kingdom

Chair in Global Child Health & Policy, Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children & University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Date: 13^th August 2020

Time: 06:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time; 05:00 pm Gulf Standard Time;

01:00 pm Greenwich Mean Time: 09:00 am US/Canada EDT

COMSTECH has arranged webinar to discuss diversity of response of OIC Member states towards Covid-19. Speaker will also touch upon implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions in wake of COVID-19. Role and impact of governance mechanisms towards Covid-19 will also be elaborated. This webinar is open to physicians, academicians, scientists and general public from all the member OIC states.

Poster of webinar: Attached:
Abstract of talk: Attached:
Speaker’s Profile: Attached:                                                                 

Procedure to join:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86933103240?pwd=SzE2bGNpc1pjTGMzdWx5ZUJ6VCs5QT09

Meeting ID: 869 3310 3240
Passcode: 159753

Contact Information: 

Address: COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad 
Phone No. : 92 51 9220681-3
Fax : 92 51 9211115, 9220265, 9205264
Email: Khazima@comstech.org ; comstech@comstech.org

Jointly organized by
OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH),
International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS),
Sindh Innovation, Research, and Education Network (SIREN)
Venue: COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad

September 9, 2020,
Time: 17:00PM-19:00PM

Introduction of Event

Research and innovation are the keys for introducing high-technology products in the market, which has a direct link to the global transformation of economies. These innovative products are required to be legally protected in the form of intellectual property at the national and international levels to allow financial benefits to inventors and the country. It will also facilitate reinvestment in the technological development. Intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, has gained enormous importance in the knowledge-based economies. Patent protection is usually essential in the life cycle of technology development, but it is highly relevant to the research and development stage of the  technology development process. Patent protection of an invention in several different countries gives rights to inventors to  use their patent-protected invention freely in those countries during the life of a patent, which is usually 20 years from the date of filing. A patent also provides financial opportunities to inventors and their institutions through licensing to third parties.

Many countries do not recognize the significance of patents. OIC countries with a total population of 1.8 billion have only 6195 US patents, i.e., one patent per 290,000. On the other hand, the USA has one patent per 116 populations. Developing economies need to focus much to link their IP with their growing economy. The best examples of economies rising because of IP are China, Japan, and South Korea.

This certificate course is specially designed for scientists and engineers from OIC member countries, providing them the opportunity to gain a detailed insight into various aspects of an IP strategy, management, and commercialization. Course will be delivered by one of  leading scientists and internationally renowned IP expert of USA.

Distinguished Speaker’s Profile:

Prof. Dr. Sarfaraz K. Niazi, FRSB, FPAMS, FACB, SI,
Adjunct Professor, The University of Illinois and University of Houston
Visiting Professor, H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, and NUST
Patent Law Practitioner, US Patent & Trademark Office, USA
Email: niazi3@uic.edu;
Tel: +1-312-297-0000

Professor Dr. Sarfaraz K. Niazi, FRSB, FPAMS, FACB, SI, is a patent law practitioner in the US, an entrepreneur, a teacher and researcher. He himself owns more than 200 US patents, authored over 100 research papers and 60+ major technology books. He is also serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois, College of Pharmacy, Ad Hoc faculty at the University of Houston, Texas, the H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry (ICCBS), Karachi, and the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. He has also served as a Foreign Professor at the H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi.

He serves on the editorial board of several journals and a fellow of Royal Society, Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences and American Society of Clinical Biochemistry. In 2013, he received one of the highest civilian awards, Star of Distinction (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) in Engineering, from the Pakistani President. He has hosted a radio show at Voice of America (US State Department) every week for more than seven years, with the audience into billions.

Professor  Niazi has been helping the Higher Education Commission of  Pakistan in developing US IP for the Pakistani scientists for more than 15 years.

Procedure to join:

Interested candidates are required to fill the online registration form and submit by the deadline (September 4, 2020). Zoom link for the training will be placed on the website soon.

Course Coordinator: 

Hanifa Beg
Programme Manager COMSTECH
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3   
Fax: +92-51-9205264, +92-51-9220265
Email: hanifa@comstech.org
Website: comstech.org

Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education –
Using Experiential Learning to Connect Theory and Practice

Organized by COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad-Pakistan
Venue: COMSTECH via Zoom Meetings
September 30, 2020 – 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm PST

Please submit the online registration form up to September 30, 2020, by 2pm (GMT +5).. Registered participants will receive e-certificates.

Key Speaker M. Nauman Farooqi, Ph.D.
Dean of Business & Social Sciences Professor of Finance & Entrepreneurship Ron Joyce Center for Business Studies Mount Allison University Sackville, NB, Canada

There is a growing demand for educational institutions to evaluate and recognize the importance of learning outside the university setting.  The objective of this session is to share the instructor and student learning experience of the use of experiential learning pedagogy in an entrepreneurship course using Practical Organization Behavior Education (PROBE) model. The PROBE model, which was originally developed to teach organization behavior, has been modified and extended to effectively teach various business courses. However, the use of PROBE in an entrepreneurship course is innovative and as such needs to be shared with the learning community.

Objectives

• Introduce the main features of the experiential learning process,
• Share the application of this methodology for an entrepreneurship course
• Promote the use of the experiential methodology in entrepreneurship and other courses
• Share and benefit from the feedback received from the students

Workshop Activities

• The session will begin with an introduction to the topic and details of the initiative.
• Viewing of video feedback from students.
• Interactive exercise
• Group discussion and feedback.

Target Audience

• University/College faculty
• Instructional and Curriculum Developers
• Researchers
• Policy Makers and Government Officials

Registration Process for Participants from OIC Member States

Please submit the online registration form  up to September 30, 2020, by 2pm (GMT +5).. Registered participants will receive e-certificates.

Workshop Coordinator

Shaharyar
Programme Officer
COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3
Fax: +92-51-9205264, +92-51-9220265
Email: shaharyar@comstech.org

This is for the information that online hands-on training workshop entitled “Developmental Psychoanalysis” will be conducted by Dr. Alexandra M. Harrison (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Core Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Post Graduate Certificate Program at University of Massachusetts Boston).

The workshop will be organized by Department of Psychology, University of Karachi and Boston Psychoanalytic Society Et Institute (BPSI) Massachusetts, USAin collaboration with Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP) as per following schedule:

Dates:                        August 08 to September 05, 2020

Days:                         Every Saturday (except August 29, 2020)

Time:                         04:00 PM to 05:30 PM

Registration fee:               Free

Available Seats:                 100

Registration last date:     August 06, 2020

Kindly register online for the course using below website, which is mandatory:

for registration click here

Flyer

All registered participants can attend this online workshop through ZOOM video conferencing software (connection details will be shared through email to the shortlisted participants).

Note: Successful participants will receive a digital certificate upon completion of the workshop.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:             

Individuals with Master in any field of Psychology are invited to attend this informative workshop

For More Information Click Here 

For Registration Form Click Here 

Note: Please complete this form and send it to events@comstech.org , not later than 20th July 2020.

Click here for the Day-1 Video 
Click here for the Day-2 Video 
Click here for the Day-3 Video 

Workshop Brief

Cyber world and physical world are being connected closer through a network of interrelated elements, such as sensors and actuators, robots, and other computing devices. They are inspiring increasing number of beneficial applications in dependable sectors such as aviation, transportation, aerospace, healthcare. In requirements engineer’s viewpoint, the environment, the specification and the requirements are no longer independent, they become three integral concerns of a system. Such systems face an open and continuously changing environment which poses challenges for requirement engineering. One of the challenges is that the trust assumptions about the environment are no longer fixed after deriving the specification and deployment. Environment must be treated as the first-class runtime concern.

To deal with this concern, the abstraction of the environment should model the dynamic interactions. Furthermore, the interactive elements in the environment of the systems are interrelated and these relationships cannot be neglected when deriving the specification of the dynamics especially to satisfy non-functional requirements such as timing, safety, security and privacy, etc.

This tutorial will consist of four parts: (1) the requirements engineering, the principles and the representative approaches; (2) the problem frames approach; (3) the environment modelling based approach; and (4) the environment related non-functionalities. I will deliver this tutorial with a few supporting tools that assist the modelling and verification of the system specification, demonstrated with working examples in sufficient details.

After the tutorial, participants will be able to know the basic principles of requirements engineering as well as the essence of environment modeling. Participants will also be able to work on the environment modelling requirements engineering for their own projects, with some hands-on experience and a good knowledge of some tool support.

Resource Person

Presenter: Zhi Jin, Peking University, China

Prof. Zhi Jin is Professor in Software Engineering at Peking University, China. Her work is concerned with requirements engineering and knowledge-based software engineering. She is co-author of four books and author/co-author over 150 journal/conference publications. She serves for IEEE RE 2016 as General Chair, IEEE Congress of Services as PC co-Chair in Chief, and is frequently serve for ICSE, FSE, etc as for Program Committee Member. She is executive editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Software (2013-), Associate Editor of IEEE TSE (2018- ), Associate Editor of IEEE TR (2019- ), and serves in the Editorial Board of JCST (2010- ), REJ (2014- ), and ESEM (2020- ).

For Registration Click here
For Flyer click here

Course Material

Book: Zhi Jin. Environment Modeling-Based Requirements Engineering for Software Intensive Systems ，1st Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2018.

Web site for the tools: http://re4cps.org/home

Coordinated By

Prof Dr M Sadiq Ali Khan , Chair IEEE Educational Activities Karachi Section
msakhan@uok.edu.pk
03002334578

Ms Khazima Muazim
Program Manager
khazima@comstech.org
0092519220681-3

On the Occasion of World Hepatitis Day, COMSTECH has arranged web based seminar to discuss diagnosis and prophylaxis of Hepatitis B & C. Discussion will also be carried out on targets for the elimination of Hepatitis B & C by 2030. The speaker would highlight the discovery of both HBV and HCV and the prospects of global elimination as per WHO’s vision of 2030 elimination target. This webinar is open to health ministry officials, physicians, academicians, scientists, public health officials and general public from all the member OIC states.

Watch recording on YouTube

Poster of webinar:

Abstract of talk:

Speaker’s Profile:

Procedure to join:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87884345949?pwd=MEd2RkNpd2lyY0tmTTJBSXYyZlNVdz09

Meeting ID: 878 8434 5949
Password: 159753

Contact Information: 

Address: COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad
Phone No. : 92 51 9220681-3
Fax : 92 51 9211115, 9220265, 9205264
Email: Khazima@comstech.org ; comstech@comstech.org

The healthcare industry is developing rapidly with large volumes of data and increasing challenges in cost and patient outcomes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) with its wide applications in the healthcare systems for e.g. internet of things (IoT) for healthcare, gathering of data for AI applications, Intelligent health platform, intelligent hospital management, diagnostic and predictive systems, health care programming paradigms and software architecture, smart medical devices, and security & privacy for medical health care. The developed countries are already reaping the benefits of AI by integrating it into their healthcare systems. However, in low resource settings, its applications are very limited. In such settings, AI can play a tremendous role in improving the efficiency of healthcare systems.

Realizing the importance of AI in the healthcare systems, COMSTECH has planned a three-day workshop focusing on the subject in November 2020.

Venue:

The workshop will be held at the COMSTECH headquarters in one of the most modern and scenic capital cities of the world, Islamabad. The city was purpose-built as the capital of 6th largest globally and 2nd most populous (in OIC) country Pakistan in the year 1966. Pakistan, according to the Forbes magazine, is a hidden treasure for tourists. with rich cultural diversity, ancient history, diverse landscape, cuisines, modern cities, and locally produced items

Objectives of the Workshop: 

The objective of this International Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence in Health Care” is to bring together the researchers, industrials partners, and practitioners interested in the specification, design, and development of AI to cultivate smart healthcare systems that will improve personal healthcare in a better way.

Key Contents:

The workshop will cover the following topics:

1. Intelligent Hospital Management
2. Health Software Architecture, Framework, Design & Engineering
3. Internet of things for healthcare
4. Intelligent technologies for healthcare (smart homes, cloud-based, etc.)
5. Programming paradigms and tools for health applications
6. Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
7. Data discovery

Workshop Organizing Committee:

Patron: 

Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (FRS., N.I., H.I., S.I., T.I.)
Chairman Prime Minister Task Force on Information Technology

Chair: 

Prof. Dr. Iqbal Chaudhary (H.I., S.I., T.I.)
Coordinator General COMSTECH/Director ICCBS/ Distinguished National Professor

Co-Chair: 

Prof. Dr. Shoab A. Khan
FOUNDER CARE, Islamabad

Technical Focal Person: 

Dr. Shafaat A. Bazaz
Vice Chancellor, Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Islamabad

Resource Persons:

1. Professor Ashiq Anjum
Professor of the distributed systems,
University of Leicester, UK
Profile of the speaker is available here

2. Prof Amir Hussain
Edinburgh Napier University,
Scotland, UK
Founding Head of the Data Science and Cyber Analytics (DSCA) Research Group
Founding Head of the Cognitive Big Data and Cybersecurity (CogBiD) Research Lab
Profile of the speaker is available here

3. Dr. Atif Mashkoor
Senior Researcher,
LIT Secure and Correct Systems LAB
Institute for Software Systems Engineering,
Johannes Kepler University,
Linz, Austria
Profile of the speaker is available here

4. Dr. Usman Akram
Associate Head of Department,
College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering,
National University of Sciences and Technology,
Islamabad, Pakistan.

5. Dr. Ahmad Raza Shahid
Assistant Professor
COMSATS University,
Islamabad, Pakistan

6. Dr. Muhammad Salman Khan
Assistant Professor,
University of Engineering and Technology,
Peshawar, Pakistan

7. Dr. Sadia Shakeel
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Space Technology,
Islamabad, Pakistan

8. Mr. Khurram Ilyas
Director Techlogix
Profile of the speaker is available here

9. Mr. Muhammad Usama
Senior Data Scientist,
MTBC

Target Audience:

Healthcare professionals, students, researchers, young entrepreneurs and policymakers from the OIC countries are encouraged to apply.

Travel & Local Hospitality:

COMSTECH will arrange complete local hospitality, internal transportation, gala dinner and sightseeing visits for all registered participants. Travel support will be provided to the speakers/resource persons only. Participants are expected to get their travel funding from their parent organizations/country of origin.

Registration Process:

Step 1: Fill online from Here

Step 2: Read instructions in the application form carefully and submit a properly filled form along with your CV. Foreign participants must submit a scanned copy of the first three pages of their passport along with the application form.

Step 3: Selected candidates will be notified through email; hence, applicants are required to check their emails regularly.

The workshop Comprises of the four following major activities

1. Poster Presentations
2. Technical Talks (Plenary  Sessions)
3. Training Program (Python etc.)
4. Exhibition of Products/Services in AI for Health

Participations in above three categories are invited to show case your contribution in the above mentioned or relevant fields of Research and Development. The workshop would be a good forum to get your research appreciated

1. Poster Presentations

To participate in poster presentation activity or to showcase your research work and projects, please email your four page draft at muhammad.saleem@case.edu.pk according to the guidelines for poster presentations and poster templates. The best three posters will be awarded after the judgment procedure. The last date for the submission of posters is October 25^th 2020.

• Guidelines for Poster Presentation
• Template for Poster Presentation

2. Plenary Session

The event will be open for all participants for technical talks, discussions, presentations etc.

3. Training Program

To participate as trainer or trainee, please email your Expression of Interest and theme of training (as trainer, maximum one page) latest by October 25^th 2020 at adeel@case.edu.pk

4. Exhibition of Products/Services in AI for Health

Young entrepreneurs are encouraged to display their research products/services in field of AI applications for healthcare industry. Please email your Expression of Interest and details of your product/services latest by October 25^th 2020 at haris@comstech.org.

Workshop Coordinators:

Muhammad Haris Akram
Programme Manager, COMSTECH
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3
Fax: +92-51-9205264, +92-51-9220265
Email: haris@comstech.org

Dr. Saman Riaz
Assistant Professor
Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Pakistan
Email: saman.riaz@case.edu.pk

Venue: COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad
January 25-27, 2021
Deadline for Registration: Jan 01, 2021

Note: This workshop is planned to be a hybrid event (Physical and virtual). Candidates are required to give their preference in the form.

The challenges faced by OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member states in their healthcare systems and lack of diagnostic facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic have given rise to a dire need for awareness in this neglected area. COMSTECH is planning to offer a workshop on the “Fundamental Techniques in Viral Diagnostics” for building the capacity of OIC member states in this field.

The capacity building of health care professionals and promoting development of diagnostic facilities in the member states of the OIC are the main focus of this three-day workshop. For this purpose, there will be a three-day technical workshop followed by sightseeing on the fourth day.

Venue

The workshop will be conducted at COMSTECH headquarters situated in the beautiful city of Islamabad, Pakistan. Islamabad is one of the most modern and scenic capital cities in the world. Islamabad was purpose-built in 1966 as the capital of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is globally the 5th largest and amongst OIC member states 2nd most populous country. Pakistan, according to Forbes magazine, is a hidden treasure for tourists with rich cultural diversity, ancient history, diverse landscape, cuisines, modern cities, and locally produced items. Zolpidem shortens the time of falling asleep, reduces the number of night awakenings, increases the overall duration of sleep, and improves its quality. Also, it prolongs stage II sleep and deep sleep stages (III and IV). The drug does not cause drowsiness during the day.

Objectives of the Workshop:

The objective of this International Workshop on ” Fundamental Techniques in Viral Diseases Diagnostics ” is to provide a platform for the researchers, health care professionals and related personnel to share their views, experiences and research methodologies. This workshop aims to provide a common forum for capacity building measures against the present and future viral pandemics in the Islamic World.

Key Contents:

The workshop will cover the following topics:

1. Viral diseases, their origin, history and transmission
2. Novel diagnosis and detection strategies for viral infections
3. Development of vaccination and application of existing drugs for treatment and prevention.
4. Development of novel therapeutic agents against viral diseases
5. State of the art diagnostic laboratory setup
6. Preventive measures against the spread of viral diseases in health care professionals

Workshop Organizing Committee: 

Patron:
Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (FRS., N.I., H.I., S.I., T.I.)
Chairman Prime Minister Task Force on Information Technology

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Iqbal Chaudhary (H.I., S.I., T.I.)
Coordinator General COMSTECH/Director ICCBS/ Distinguished National Professor

Coordinators:

Khazima Muazim
Programme Manager COMSTECH

Dr. Sumbla Sheikh,
Institute of Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases, University Hosptial Tuebingen, Germany

Resource Persons: 

Prof. Anders Vahlne
Professor Emeritus, H5 Department of Laboratory Medicine,
Klin Microbiologi,
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden

Speakers

Prof. Anders Vahlne
Professor Emeritus, H5 Department of Laboratory Medicine,
Klin Microbiologi,
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden

Prof. Dr. Bertram Flehmig
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tübingen,
Germany

Prof. Dr. Thomas Iftner
Director
Institute for Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases
University Hospital Tubingen 
Germany

Prof. Dr. Hongping Wei  

Professor
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research fields: Pathogenic microorganism detection and new antibacterial molecules
Email: hpwei@wh.iov.cn

Prof. Dr. Di Liu  

Professor
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Science Research Field: Pathogen Genomes and Evolution
Email: liud@wh.iov.cn

Dr. Jiqin Wu   

Assistant Professor
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Science
Research Field: RNA virus polymerase structure and catalytic mechanism
Email: wujiqin@wh.iov.cn

Target Audience:

Healthcare professionals, students, researchers and policy makers from the OIC countries are encouraged to apply.

Registration Fee:

There is no registration fee for participation limited to 35.  

Travel & Local Hospitality:

COMSTECH will arrange complete local hospitality, internal transportation, and sightseeing visits for all registered participants. Travel support will be provided to the speakers only. Participants are expected to get their ticket funding from their parent organizations.

Registration Process:

Step 1: Fill the online application form.

Click Here to fill online form for Physical Participation.

Click Here to fill online form for Virtual Participation.

Deadline for Registration: Jan 01, 2021

Step 2: Read instructions in the application form carefully and submit a properly filled form.

Step 3: Selected candidates will be notified through email; hence, applicants are required to check their emails regularly.

Join Zoom Meeting
Topic: International Workshop on Fundamental Techniques in Viral Diseases Diagnostics
Time: Jan 25, 2021 09:00 AM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
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Meeting ID: 899 0429 5654
Passcode: 298035

Topic: International Workshop on Fundamental Techniques in Viral Diseases Diagnostics
Time: Jan 26, 2021 09:00 AM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83733413371?pwd=bnFRdkNqK243TjZ6R1RNN2t4RWh3QT09
Meeting ID: 837 3341 3371
Passcode: 057024

Topic: International Workshop on Fundamental Techniques in Viral Diseases Diagnostics
Time: Jan 27, 2021 09:00 AM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88637520129?pwd=a1ZiU2RPdFozRURpUFhGZS9QRE5HUT09
Meeting ID: 886 3752 0129
Passcode: 268767

Workshop Coordinators:

Khazima Muazim
Programme Manager, COMSTECH
Tel: +92-51-9220681-3
Fax: +92-51-9205264, +92-51-9220265
Email: khazima@comstech.org

Dr. Sumbla Sheikh
Institute for Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases
University Hospital Tubingen, Germany
Tel: +49-7071- 29-72899
Cell: 0049-176-80550026
Fax: +92-7071-29-4507
Email: sumbla.sheikh@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Click here for Poster

Coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) aka Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus i.e. severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, causing illness in humans and circulate among animals such as bats. The disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets, which are expelled when a person with Covid-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks. 

The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

Robust response and scientific efforts are underway to curb this menace. On forefront is the development of vaccine. World Health Organization (WHO) has 76 vaccine candidates against Covid-19 so far among which only 5 are under clinical evaluation. These 5 may have to prove their worth through rigorous follow up and testing.

COMSTECH has arranged web based seminar to discuss Covid-19 epidemiology and its ramification for wider public health and health sciences particularly for the OIC member states. Prof. Dr. Saad B. Omer is invited for this seminar.  In this talk, Prof. Omer will delve into insights of Covid- 19 epidemiology globally. He will discuss prospects, rigors and future predicaments for the Covid- 19 vaccine production.

Speaker’s Profile:

Prof. Dr. Saad B. Omer is the founding Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the World Famous Yale University, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, USA.  He has conducted studies in the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa and other OIC states. Dr Omer’s research portfolio includes clinical trials to estimate efficacy and safety of maternal and/or infant influenza, pertussis, polio, measles and pneumococcal vaccines and trials to evaluate drug regimens to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. He has published over 280 papers in peer reviewed journals and has mentored over 100 junior faculty, clinical, and research post-doctoral fellows and PhD and other graduate students. Prof. Omer’s insight about pandemics and their impact is unique and praise worthy.

https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/saad_omer/

Procedure to join:

Step 1: Download software zoom for this web based seminar (https://zoom.us/)

Step 2: Send your request to join this seminar at khazima@comstech.org. Pl. note you need to send your Name, Email address, Affiliation, Profession, level of education in this email.  

Contact Information: 

Address: COMSTECH Secretariat, 33-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad 
Phone No. : 92 51 9220681-3
Fax : 92 51 9211115, 9220265, 9205264
Email: khazima@comstech.org ; comstech@comstech.org