Dr. Amal Zaidan earned her master’s degree in Global Health from Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health in 2014. In 2022, she earned her PhD in Global Health from the University of Edinburgh's College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Population Health Sciences. She is now an Assistant Professor of global health at the College of Public Health and Health Informatics at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her work in global public health has resulted in several publications, presentations, lectures, and courses; she is an active member of several scientific and administrative committees at the university. Her research interests include: Global Health Epidemiology, Big Data analysis, Risk Factor Prediction, and Meta-Analysis.