Hani Serag, MD, MPH, is a physician and a public health researcher. He is currently the director of the Division of Global Partnership and assistant professor at the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities at the School of Public and Population Health. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the departments of Internal Medicine – Division of Endocrinology, and the Department of Pediatrics, and an associate member of the Graduate Faculty at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).
Dr. Serag focuses on enhancing the responsiveness of health systems, specifically through incorporating preventive measures for chronic health conditions into clinical settings. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs focusing on diabetes prevention and diabetes self-management education. He is also the project director of HIV routine screening at the Emergency department. Both programs are well-supported by federal and state grants.
Dr. Serag's teaching, research, and public health practice interests are health policy and governance, health system policies, health equity, and rights-approach for community empowerment. He has sound experience working in different settings and across cultures.
Dr. Serag is the convenor of the UTMB Annual Conference on Migration and Health and the director of UTMB global health sites in the Middle East and North Africa, providing quality training opportunities for UTMB students abroad.
Before joining UTMB, Dr. Serag served as the global coordinator of the People's Health Movement (2006-2015), a worldwide network of civil society organizations, academic institutes, and health activists. He is currently the Co-Chair of the Global Steering Council of the PHM. From 2005-2008, he led the civil society engagement with the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Between 2000-2009, he served as the Health Policy and Systems Program director at the Association for Health and Environmental Development, a leading think-tank group in Egypt.
Affiliations
- People's Health Movement