Dr Sharif Ismail
BA MBBS MPhil MPH
Research Fellow
LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow at the School, and a Specialist Registrar in Public Health in London. I divide my time between academic research and service public health work - most recently as a Health Adviser at the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Before qualifying in medicine, I worked in policy analysis for RAND Europe, the Institute for Government, and the Nuffield Trust.
Research
My research interests lie primarily in health policy and systems research (HPSR) in the UK and internationally, with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa. I have a particular interest currently in understanding how health systems adapt (or otherwise) to acute and chronic stressors including those arising from armed conflict and large-scale population movements. The main focuses for this work are:
1. Communicable disease surveillance and control
2. Health workforce regulation, training and development
3. The political economy of health policymaking and implementation.