A word from the head of the Student Research Assessment Unit

Dr. Abdel Moniem Mukhtar is Associate Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine/ Faculty of Medicine at King AbdulAziz University. He was the head of research office at the Public Health Institute/ Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan and the head of Evaluation Department at the Central Research Institute of Ambulatory Health Care System in Germany. His main areas of research interest are unwarranted variations in healthcare, evidence-based medicine and chronic disease epidemiology. Most recently, he published a paper titled “Factors associated with antenatal and delivery care in Sudan: analysis of the 2010 Sudan household survey” in the BMC Health Service Research Journal. Currently, he is participating in a large cross-sectional study on vitamin D deficiency and a systematic review of cross-sectional studies estimating the prevalence of obesity in Saudi Arabia. He serves as the Chair of the Students Research Assessment Unit at the Faculty of Medicine / King AbdulAziz University and as General Inspector of the Clinical Trials Unit at King AbdulAziz University Hospital.