Dr. Khalid Elawad is a Medical Doctor and Public Health Consultant.
With over 25 years of international experience in the field of public health as Senior Public Health Advisor. Dr. Khalid is currently the Health Protection Manager at Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) in Doha, Qatar.
Dr. Khalid’s role is key in the development and shaping of Qatar’s national healthcare strategy. More specifically, as the Health Protection Manager, Dr. Khalid manages four main sections in PHCC Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC)program, Communicable Disease Control (CDC), immunization program and sterilization program . All these programs operate closely with various departments across the health centers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality systems that range from disease surveillance, monitoring and outbreak response, staff, and community training as well as numerous other support systems to control infection and communicable diseases in PHCC.
In addition to the role as the Health Protection Manager, he is heavily involved in various national and international committees, he is chairing the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, chair Infection Prevention and Control Committee in PHCC. Member in national Public Health Committee, National Health Protection Committee, national screening committee and national infection prevention and control committee . he is also a member and senior advisor of many international committees (WHO, World bank) and many educational institutions.
Moreover, Dr. Khalid has several public research studies in the field of Infection Control, as well as co-authoring 4 books focused on Health Promotion and Communicable Disease Prevention and 64 research papers.
More recently, Dr. Khalid’s role has been heavily focused on the COVID-19 Pandemic. As one of the key members involved in the fight against the pandemic, Dr. Khalid has led his team in the successful healthcare response to COVID across multiple areas, such as the development and implementation of covid19 management guidelines, contact tracing of health care staff and the training of healthcare workers. Furthermore, Dr. Khalid successfully aided the planning and implementation of the Nationwide COVID-19 vaccination programs which successfully helped to curb the spread of COVID within the Qatar community.