Omara Dogar
Senior Lecturer Global Public Health

Profile

Biography

Omara's research focuses on supporting behaviour change to stop tobacco use in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in the UK and internationally. She has a keen interest in studying the quality of intervention delivery and patient-provider interactions in health care settings, and their impact on patient outcomes.

Please visit Omara's University of York Pure profile for information on research and publications.

Qualifications

• PhD, Health Sciences, University of York, UK
• MPH (Major: Epidemiology), University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, USA
• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery), Bolan University of Medical & Health Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan

Departmental roles

• Deputy Lead Master of Public Health postgraduate programme

Research

Overview

Omara's expertise lies in:

• Health behaviour change
• Behavioural tobacco treatment
• Patient communication and engagement in health behaviour change
• Tobacco cessation in lung health conditions
• Tobacco control policy evaluation
• Niche tobacco product use
• Methods for measuring intervention fidelity
• Sugar Sweetened Beverages policy landscape in Bangladesh

For a full list of outputs, please visit Omara's University of York Pure research page.

Research group(s)

• Public Health and Society

External activities

Overview

• Honorary fellow, Usher Institute, the University of Edinburgh
• Associate editor, Nicotine & Tobacco Research journal
• Member, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD)
• Member, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
• Chair, Tobacco Control Section, IUATLD (past)
• External examiner, Global Public Health and Policy programme, Queen Mary University London

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Lead Global Public Health module
• Dissertation supervisor for Master of Public Health

Supervision

Omara is willing to supervise projects that fall within her research expertise.  

PhD trainees:

• Mehreen Riaz Faisal: Families learning about toothbrushing: developing a scalable intervention (Self funded)
• Suranji Dahanayake: Smokeless tobacco ban design and success in Sri Lanka (Self funded)
• Huda Sarwar: Tuberculosis and Diabetes in Pakistan (Collaborative PGR programme funded by Centre for IMPACT).

Publications

Full publications list

• Omara Dogar's publications