Prof. Ozayr Mahomed is a Population/Preventative Medicine Specialist, having earned his primary medical degree (MBCHB) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He holds a Fellowship in Public Health Medicine from the College of Medicine in South Africa, as well as a Master’s degree in Medicine and a PhD in Public Health Medicine from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. For his doctoral research, he developed and implemented an Integrated Chronic Disease Management Model, serving as an operational model for service delivery to patients with chronic diseases at primary healthcare facilities in South Africa. In August 2022, he joined DDI as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. His primary responsibilities involve developing surveys to identify health determinants for populations with diabetes, conducting Health Economic studies, and analyzing data from the Kuwait National Diabetes Registry.