I am presently an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health (IPH), College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. I hold a PhD degree in Epidemiology from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan in 2014. In 2020 and then in 2021, I was listed among the Top 2% highly cited scientists in their field Worldwide by Stanford University – USA. Also, I am an Excellence-Award-Winning Scholar at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2020. My Scopus h-index is 12 and the Google Scholar h-index is 15 with more than 900 citations. Thus far, I have received 12 research grants as a primary and co-investigator with a total of AED ~11 million ($2.9 million) in research funds and produced 61 peer-reviewed epidemiological studies published in international journals. My publications addressed several research questions on the epidemiology of and risk factors associated with various types of infectious and non-infectious diseases. I received several recognition awards from the UAE University (2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021) for excellence in research by publishing in top peer-reviewed scientific journals.