Dr. Shahnaz Najjar Profile

Faculty Member

Academic Rank: 

Assistant Professor

Specialization: 

Health Services and Policy

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Education: 

University/College Name	Degree Received	Specialization
University of Leuven- KU Leuven	BSc/BS	Medical Social Sciences / Health Care Policy
University of Leuven- KU Leuven	MSc/MS	Medical Social Sciences / Health Management
University of Leuven- KU Leuven	Phd	Biomedical Sciences
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center		Post Doc - Population Health

Academic Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
01/09/2018			Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Graduate Studies	Arab American University
01/09/2014	01/09/2015		Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Health Policy, Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine	Al Quds university
02/09/2014	01/07/2015		Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing and Health Professions, Faculty Of Pharmacy, Nursing And Health Professions	Birzeit University
01/11/2009	14/01/2014		Associate, Health Management and Policy I and II Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health	University of Leuven- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
01/10/2012	28/02/2013		Instructor, Oriental Languages and Communications	Zuyd University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
01/09/2005	31/10/2009		Instructor, Arabic and Islamic studies Faculty of Arts	University of Leuven- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
01/10/2015	31/08/2018		Post Doctoral Fellow	King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
15/10/2015	30/06/2019		Senior Researcher and Academic Consultant (Curriculum Development)	University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Administrative Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
01/08/2017	31/08/2018		Head of health services and health behavioral section	King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia
15/10/2015	30/06/2019		Project Leader and Senior Researcher	University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
01/10/2014	30/09/2015		Senior Consultant	Dimensions Consulting / Healthcare, Ramallah, Palestine
01/01/2014	31/08/2018		Senior Researcher and Consultant	Eummena NGO, Leuven, Belgium

Courses Taught: 

Course Title	Level
Healthcare Policy	Undergraduate
Evaluation Research	Graduate
Introduction to Health Services Research	Graduate
Healthcare Management	Graduate
Quality and Patient Safety	Graduate
Healthcare Policy	Graduate
Research Methods	Graduate
Ethical, Legal and Leadership Issues in Health Care	Graduate
Population Health	Graduate
Public Health	Undergraduate

Biography: 

Dr Shahenaz Najjar is an assistant professor at the department of health sciences, graduate studies of the Arab American University, Palestine. She is serving as the OWSD-Palestine National Chapter treasurer. Dr Najjar holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the KU Leuven, Belgium on health policy and health services (2014). She has also a Post-doctoral degree in Population health and health services. Dr Najjar worked as an instructor and researcher at different European universities such as Zuyd University of Applied Sciences_Maastricht/The Netherlands, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, and KU Leuven, Belgium between November 2009 and January 2019. In addition to her academic experience, Dr Najjar worked as a consultant at several companies in Belgium and Palestine in the area of health information systems. Dr Najjar has rich experience in research on quality in healthcare and patient safety, population health, health informatics applications (at several levels; data management and visualization, epidemiological level, population level, prediction models, and others), cancer informatics, access to healthcare and universal health coverage. She has worked on large national and international projects across diverse topics of health informatics and health services and quality in healthcare. Moreover, she serves as a reviewer for different international journals like; BMC health services, BMJ open, Sage and International journal for quality in healthcare. She got several international and national awards for her projects.

Skills: 

English, Dutch and Arabic language: excellent spoken, written and read

Statistical software (SPSS/STATA)

Project Management Software (Moday, Trello)

Referencing software (Endnote, Mendely)

Awards: 

Research and development KU Leuven - Belgium

International Forum on Quality and Patient Safety (Top Ten posters/IHI) Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Best patient safety initiative/ project in Middle East Patient safety & quality congress Middle East/Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Poster winner #1 presenter - 7th Annual Forum for Medical Research / King Abdullah International Medical Research Center-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

C.V.: 

NAJJAR_Resume_May 2022 AAUP.pdf

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Arabic

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