Welcome to Dr Melek Somai

Dr Melek Somai is a new faculty member at the Global eHealth Unit (GeHU). Melek is a physician, biostatistician, and public health professional with expertise in clinical informatics and global health innovation. In his new role as teaching fellow in eLearning and eHealth at the Global eHealth Unit, Melek will lead the implementation of the GeHU visionary program in Health Information Technology and Innovation. Melek will be leading the efforts of the Global eHealth Unit to increase its capacity building programme in developing countries and its innovation and technology courses for the Masters Degree Program in Public Health. He is also a co-investigator of the EIT Health CARE CAMPUS program that aims to transform Active Ageing in Europe through the development of an innovative training curriculum for carers.

Before joining us, Melek was a Fulbright scholar and a faculty member at the Division of Clinical Informatics at Harvard Faculty Medical Physicians, which he held with a joint appointment as instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Also, Melek has been a team member of SANA, a volunteer organization hosted at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT; where he is a lecturer of the Global Health Informatics “To Improve Quality Of Care” class, an open-course at MIT that is delivered to more than 450 students worldwide and which will be available next year on MITx. Melek is also a former resident at the Harvard Innovation Lab. His team has been awarded the MIT Hacking Medicine GE-Intel award in 2014.

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