Affiliations
- Professor and Director of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Short Biography
Fadi El-Jardali (PhD, MPH) is a recognized health policy and systems expert and global advocate for strong health systems and for the use of science, data and evidence in policy and management decisions and practice. He has extensive international and regional experience and multidisciplinary background in public health policy, systems and management. He held several senior management and policy positions in public and private sector. He is Tenured Professor of Health Policy and Systems, Founder & Director of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center; Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice, Co-Director of the Center for Systematic Reviews in Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK). He is also Adjunct Professor at McMaster University in Canada. He was the the Co-Editor in Chief for Health Research, Policy and Systems (HARPS) Journal. He was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. Dr. El-Jardali was nominated to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2021 and listed among finalists for the 2023 Roux Prize.
His work is connected to real world health systems and priorities and grounded in the practical understanding of economic, social, environmental and political realities, constraints and context. He has published extensively on public health systems and policy (more than 140) in international peer review and impact factor journals in addition to book, book chapters, and several knowledge translation products on policy priority areas. Fadi has worked and held senior positions with policy analysis related organizations in Canada such as the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (as Hospital Consultant), Federal department of health / Health Canada (as Senior Policy Advisor) and the Health Council of Canada. He was also a hospital CEO.
Dr. El-Jardali is a recipient of the Global Health Leadership Award and elected twice to the Board of Health Systems Global (HSG) Society. He is a recipient of the Fellowship on Evidence Informed Policy from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. He is the founding member of the MENA Health Policy Forum.