{"id":1018,"date":"2019-07-25T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpic.com\/icpic-2019\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:32:13","slug":"balkhy-hanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icpic.com\/icpic-2019\/balkhy-hanan\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkhy, Hanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>World Health Organization<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Professor Hanan Balkhy graduated from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1991. She completed her paediatric residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston USA 1993-1996; followed by a paediatric infectious diseases fellowship from 1996-1999 from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Prior to her appointment with WHO, she was the Executive Director, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) at the Ministry of National Guard for 10 years and prior to that, the hospital epidemiologist for 10 years. She also led the establishment of the infectious diseases research department at King Abdulla International Research Centre at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Professor Balkhy has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Professor Balkhy has served on many WHO committees including: the Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance and Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR), the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR), the International Health Regulations review committee (IHR-RC) and the most recent Interagency Coordination Group committee for AMR. 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