Osman M. Galal, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Galal is a Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Director of the School's International Health Program.  Dr. Galal is a pediatrician with a Ph.D. from Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham  (UK) and an extensive research and administrative career in child health in developing countries.  Before coming to the US in 1987, he served as Director of the National Nutrition Institute of the Ministry of Health in Egypt, a large research institution spanning the scope of nutrition research.  He has extensive experience in graduate and postgraduate training, having trained more than 30 doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars, from many developing countries.  Dr. Galal teaches graduate courses on International Health with emphasis on Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries and on Nutrition Assessment and Policies. 

His research has focused in several areas of child health, including determinants of the timing and patterns of pubertal development; functional effects of chronic, mild-to-moderate malnutrition in children; cognitive development and performance in malnourished children, and published over seventy papers.  He currently has active research projects in nutrition surveillance and in utilization patterns for maternal and child health community-based health services.  Dr. Galal is currently Secretary-General for the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, and he consults regularly on nutrition and child health issues for various international agencies and national governments.  He is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Nutrition.