Improving Health Care Delivery and Medicines Use
Source: https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Research/RIMHS/IHCDMU Parent: https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Research/RIMHS
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Overview
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Goals and Objectives
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Our Team
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Publications
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Collaborators
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Projects
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Awards
The Research Group Improving Healthcare Delivery and Medicines Use is an interdisciplinary group created in 2016 in the University of Sharjah. It is a unique platform through which we investigate health-related issues in primary and secondary care settings and translate those investigations into improved health services, designing models of care that optimize health outcomes and health care delivery for people in the UAE. Our approach to achieving these goals of care is to create a dedicated research team to identify pressing national and regional health needs, design studies to understand those needs, and find innovative culturally-appropriate health services and strategies to improve health care delivery.\ This interdisciplinary research group will forge a unique platform through which we will investigate health-related issues in primary and secondary care settings and translate those investigations into improved health services, designing models of care that optimize health outcomes and health care delivery for people in the UAE. Our approach to achieve these goals of care is to create a dedicated research team to identify pressing national and regional health needs, design studies to understand those needs and find innovative culturally-appropriate health services and strategies to improve health care delivery.
- Develop health services and improve health care delivery for people in the UAE, focusing on Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental health and multimorbidity.
- Improve safety in medication use and optimize health outcomes.
- Increase engagement of pharmacists in patient care and public health initiatives.
- Improve adherence to the prescribed treatment for people with chronic diseases.
Dr. Hamzah Tareq Al Zubaidi
Research Group Coordinator
Prof. Abduelmola Abduelkareem
Research Group Member
Dr. Eman Abu-Gharbieh
Research Group Member
Prof. Basema Saddik
Research Group Coordinator
Dr.Wafa Alnakhi
Research Group Member
Raya Nawfal Fadhil
Research Group Member
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Internal collaborations:
- United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention
- Key primary, secondary and tertiary hospitals, including Rashid Hospital, Dubai, Al Qasimi Hospital, Sharjah
- Top local Universities, including Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, and Ajman University, Ajman
External collaborations:
- Deakin University, Australia
- Oakland University, United States of America
- The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes, Australia
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- University College Dublin, Ireland
- University of Southern California, United States of America
- University of Sydney, Australia
- Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Funded projects:
- Diabetes and cardiovascular risk assessment in community pharmacy in the UAE. Funded by the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery.
- Implementing prediabetes risk screening and prevention program in community pharmacies in the United Arab Emirates. University of Sharjah.
- Implementing diabetes risk screening and prevention program in community pharmacies in the United Arab Emirates: Ras Al Khaimah. Funded by the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research.
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Improving management of multimorbidity among Arabic-speaking patients in the United Arab Emirates: mixed methods research. University of Sharjah.
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Dr. Hamzah Alzubaidi: Sharjah Islamic Bank Award for Best Community-Based Research 2023
- Dr. Hamzah Alzubaidi: Annual Faculty Incentive Award for Research, University of Sharjah, 2022
- Prof. Basema Saddik: Fellowship by distinction, Faculty of Public Health Royal College of Physicians UK, 2023
- Prof. Basema Saddik: Research Award – VC of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Sharjah, 2022