Leadership Rehab Rounds: Alarcos Cieza
"Promoting Rehabilitation as an Essential Health Service Integral to UHC: WHO’s Rehabilitation 2030 Initiative"
Alarcos Cieza, MSc, MPH, PhDHead of NCD Integrated Support and Sensory functions, Disability and Rehabilitation at the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) | Rehabilitation and Disability at the World Health Organization
Dr. Alarcos Cieza is Head of NCD Integrated Support Unit and Head of Sensory Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation Unit at the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD), Rehabilitation and Disability of the World Health Organization. In this role, she provides strategic leadership, management supervision and overall direction to WHO’s work on eye and hearing care, rehabilitation, and Disability as well as WHO’s work on integrated service delivery with a focus on Noncommunicable Diseases. Prior to joining WHO in September 2014, she served as Chair and Professor of Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and led a research unit for over ten years at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Leadership Rehab Rounds is an opportunity for students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and invited experts to share research and foster collaborations.
Stream live at: Zoom
Dial in: 647-374-4685, Meeting ID: 884 1501 0912, Passcode: 314876
