Management & Faculty
February 1, 2022 2024-10-16 9:09Management & Faculty
Key Management
Our team is the secret to our success. Each of our employees is resourceful in their own right, but together they are what makes James Lind Institute such a fun and rewarding place to work. The JLI team is a tight-knit, talented group with a common vision of delivering excellent education, as well as ensuring the institute is a fun, inclusive, challenging place to work and develop a rewarding career.
Dr. Tufail Syed
President
"Every day at JLI we think of new ways to improve our student experience and how we can add more value to their careers. Our students are at the center of everything we do."
"Every day at JLI we think of new ways to improve our student experience and how we can add more value to their careers. Our students are at the center of everything we do."
Dr. Mufti Suhail
Director of Academics
"The e-learning platform and other technologies we have put in place ensure that our students get the best learning experience from our online programs."
"The e-learning platform and other technologies we have put in place ensure that our students get the best learning experience from our online programs."
Dr. Abdul Wahid
Director of Operations
"At JLI we try our best to provide students a seamless experience, be it academic or technical. We constantly test and implement new systems to better serve our students."
"At JLI we try our best to provide students a seamless experience, be it academic or technical. We constantly test and implement new systems to better serve our students."
Key Faculty
Sonal Katyal, Ph.D.
sonal.katyal@jliedu.com
Program Director for Economics at James Lind Institute & Rushford Business School
Dr. Sonal Katyal is an esteemed economist with over 15 years of academic and research experience. She is currently an Associate Professor and Program Director at the James Lind Institute in Geneva, leading the Faculty of Transformational Economics. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor and Area Chair of Economics at GD Goenka University and served at GD Goenka World Institute - Lancaster University. Dr. Katyal has also lectured at the highly ranked Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and worked as an Academic Associate at IIM Ahmedabad. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Economics from Maharshi Dayanand University and a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Delhi. Additionally, she has a Certificate in Academic Practice from Lancaster University and participated in the Global Faculty Development Program at the prestigious Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her extensive research contributions include numerous publications, conference presentations, and authored books and textbook chapters.
Dr. Rabbanie Tariq, M.D
Faculty for Public Health
– Public Health & Preventive Medicine Consultant
– Joint Secretary, Indian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Multilingual public health strategic communicator with dual degrees in Medicine, Public Health & Preventive Medicine. Over 9 years of professional experience in strategic planning for corporate communications, risk communication, epidemiology and community engagement, always with a strong focus on health promotion, social marketing, advocacy, community mobilization, capacity building, and resource mobilization.
Tionna Jenkins, Ph.D., M.P.H
Faculty for Public Health
Dr. Tionna Jenkins has over 15 years of public health policy practitioner experience and currently serves as the Senior Advisor of Health Equity with Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) at the Clinton Foundation under the leadership of the 42nd President of the United States, President Clinton. In this role, she oversees the development, review, implementation and research on improving the equity portfolio, cultural and linguistic competencies and is the primary liaison for both regional and national external partnerships that work to build effective strategies that address disparities and equity.
Dr. Mennatollah S, BDS, M.Sc
Adjunct Faculty
She is an experienced teaching assistant with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is skilled in charity work, teaching English as a foreign language, dentistry, cooperative, and group work. She has a strong educational background with a Bachelor's in Dental Surgery and a Master's degree focused in Health economics from Cairo University.
Prof. Amany Refaat, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor for Public Health
Professor Amany Refaat graduated as a physician; however, she focused her career on medical education and public health. Her area of interest and experience is women's health and health promotion in a global context. She is advocating to women empowerment and protection from gender-based violence and specifically the harmful practice of Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting ( FGM/C).
Dr. Farina Jamshaid, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Public Health
Dr. Farina is a Public Health Specialist at Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia. She is a medical doctor by education and has extensive experience in medical practice as well as in managing and leading various public health programs conducted by the ministry.
Sonal Malhotra, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Infectious Diseases
Dr. Sonal is a biotechnology professional with over 15 Plus years of Experience in biotech Industry and academia (India & USA). His interests are teaching and research in biotechnology industry and academia.
He is also interested in translational research, Genomic and Proteomic approaches to understanding disease pathogenesis and management. Infectious Disease Process: In particular the role of Disulfide Isomerases in Infectious disease.
Dr. Beenish Nazir, M.D
Associate Professor
Dr. Beenish did her MBBS from GMC (Sgr) and worked in many prestigious Institutions in India,UK and Saudi Arabia. She has completed her Post Graduation (DNB) from Shalby hospital Chandigarh under guidance of Dr.R J Dash. She started working at St.Martha's hospital, and did Post Graduate diploma in Rheumatology from John Hopkins Medical center, USA. She also did fellowship in Rheumatology from Guys and Thomas hospital in London under Dr.David D Cruz. She is well versed in managing diverse medical conditions. Her special interest lies in treating Rheumatoid Arthritis, SLE, Vasculitis, various Spondyloarthropathies and Psoriasis.
She is an excellent clinician and devotes lot of time in understanding the patient’s disease and advises treatment as per the latest protocol.
Dr. Tayyeba Idrees, MD.
Faculty for Public Health
– Masters in Public Health from the University of Glasgow, UK
– Doctor of Medicine: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Quid A Azam Medical College
Dr. Tayyeba is a working volunteer with different organizations to improve community development.
Esther Sathiaraj, Ph.D.
Faculty for Health Management
– Head of Clinical Nutrition at HCG Hospitals
– P.D in Nutrition Sciences
Dr. Esther is a Clinical Nutritionist with extensive experience in medical content development and research, training and management of teams.
Dr. Med. Adem Akyol, Ph.D.
Professor, Healthcare Management
Dr. Med. Adem Akyol qualified in 1992 from the University of Duesseldorf and did training in various specialties including Urology, General Surgery, General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Neonatology, Accident and Emergency and finally in General Practice. Dr. Med. Adem Akyol has supervised medical students and young trainee Doctors. He does beside his work as General Practitioner, Specialist in general medicine, Emergency Out-of-Hour’s work, which he enjoys with passion. His main interest is Healthcare Management and its different applications in various countries. After working in Germany, England, Wales, the Netherlands, Australia and the British Forces Germany as an Army Doctor, now he's working in his own General Practice in Neuss, Germany.
Dr. Gargi Deshpande, MPH
Adjunct Faculty for Epidemiology
Dr. Deshpande is an eager epidemiologist with a background in Oral Medicine. She is experienced working with epidemiological methods, statistical computing and mapping tools using SAS, STATA, RStudio and Tableau. She is passionate about the arena of infectious diseases through disease surveillance, spatiotemporal trends and clinical research.
Kanika Gupta, Ph.D.
Faculty for Business Management
Dr. Kanika is currently the chief academic officer and faculty at Rushford Business School. She provides support in the development of new programs offered at James Lind Institute and Rushford Business School, and teaches courses related to accounting, financial management and many others.
Bradley Joblin, Ph.D.
Faculty for Clinical Research Programs
Bradley is a specialist in clinical development and early phase study design. His 15 years in the industry spans roles including the management early phase development program at the headquarters of AstraZeneca, global management responsibility for phase III/IV studies at the headquarters of Roche and as Chief Scientific Officer at a specialist phase 1 clinical study unit. Bradley has worked on development program in a variety of therapeutic areas including neurology, oncology, autoimmune disease, respiratory disorders, dermatology and infectious disease to name a few.
Ananya Bagchi, Ph.D.
Program Director & Faculty, School of Agribusiness
Dr. Bagchi graduated from IIT Kharagpur in Agricultural systems and management. She is very experienced in the field of agricultural sciences and is currently helping the school develop new agriculture related programs.
Experts Via HSTalks
Prof. Roberto Cattaneo
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA
Prof. John Hardy
Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
Dr. Lee Hood
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Prof. Elaine Holmes
Imperial College London,
UK
Dr. Kathrin Jansen
Pfizer Vaccine Research & Development, USA
Prof. Fei Ye
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Prof. Jonathan Marchini
University of Oxford,
UK
Mr. Steven Binder
Bio-Rad Laboratories,
USA
Prof. Trisha Greenhalgh
University of Oxford,
UK
Prof. Robert Weinberg
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Prof. Aaron D. Gitler
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Elizabeth Buchbinder
Harvard Medical School,
USA
Prof. Alberto Mantovani
Istituto Clinico Humanitas and Humanitas University, Italy
Prof. Andrew Bush
Imperial College London & Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
Prof. Gordon Guyatt
McMaster University,
Canada
Prof. Arthur Horwich
Yale University,
USA
- HSTalks experts are not directly affiliated with James Lind Institute. Their lecture(s) are made available in James Lind Institute’s e-campus via an active collaboration with the HSTalks platform.
