IGDC Member Spotlight - Dr Omara Dogar

“Tackling Global Health challenges through interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching.”

Omara is a Research Fellow in Health Sciences. She studied medicine in Pakistan and subsequently trained in epidemiology and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health before joining the University of York in 2012 for her PhD in Health Sciences.

Omara’s work focuses on transnational health issues related to tobacco use. She is particularly interested in complex systems approaches for evidence translation of health behaviour change that takes account of the real-world circumstances in which people live by studying what works, for whom and why. Omara’s recent research has looked at the links between tobacco and tuberculosis as well as tobacco use cessation. Her research is centred around South Asia, particularly within Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

View Omara’s profile in the York Research Database