Omran is currently a Bloomsbury-funded PhD Student in health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is a member of the Environmental Health Group at the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. His PhD research project focuses on "Evaluating how multilateral development banks produce and use benefit-cost evidence in water and sanitation project decisions". He is also a member of LSHTM’s Global Health Economic Center and the Centre for Evaluation.

His research interests lie in the economic evaluation and epidemiology of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Omran is also a multidisciplinary enthusiast with the ability to think outside the box and across boundaries, including development economics, epidemiology, and public health, to improve population Well-Being.

Prior to joining LSHTM, Omran had worked for premier institutions. He worked in epidemiology in the College of Medicine at Qatar University and the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar; served as the MENA regional focal point in the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UMGCY); worked in M&E for NGOs (e.g., Reach Out to Asia) and served as a consultant in impact evaluation at Qatar Foundation.

Omran completed his MA in Development Economics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies with a Tamim Scholarship from the Government of Qatar. He also earned a BSc (Hons) in Econometrics from Khartoum University. Furthermore, he studied a postgraduate program in the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.