Dr Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, FHEA, PGCAP, MPH, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor in Public Health
I am an Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Southampton and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. I have a particular interest in the area of maternal and child health. I attempt to address research questions around how to optimise the health and wellbeing of women before and during pregnancy leading to better long-term health for them and their children.
My vision is to contribute knowledge towards a healthier and happier mother and child journey throughout the world.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Alwan has contributed to the public health response by coordinating and leading several collective outputs from senior UK public health academics, and more recently by focusing on the recognition and the quantification of morbidity from COVID19, having initiated the call to Count ‘Long COVID’. She was awarded an MBE for services to Medicine and Public Health during the COVID19 pandemic in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2021. She was also named amongst other inspiring and influential women from around the world in the BBC 100 Women 2020 list.
Dr Nisreen Alwan qualified in Medicine and obtained the membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP UK). She then pursued a career in Public Health Medicine by obtaining a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Nottingham and then joining the Public Health Specialist Training Programme in the Yorkshire and Humber Region. During that time, she secured a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship based at the University of Leeds, obtaining an MSc in Statistical Epidemiology and a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology as part of that. She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FFPH).