Ahmed M. Moustafa, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

I am passionate and enthusiastic about global health and I believe that solving complex public health challenges needs a systems thinking approach that considers human, animal, and ecosystem interfaces. My passion for research on global public health, emerging infectious diseases and working in resource-limited countries was the reason that led me to study haemorrhagic septicaemia disease in Pakistan, where I gained much appreciation of the concept of one health and its importance in mitigating the impacts of emerging infectious diseases. Over the last four years as a postdoctoral research fellow, I have been involved in a wide variety of research projects that focus on molecular epidemiology and evolutionary biology. The aim is to understand the way that epidemics occur and how organisms evolve virulence and antimicrobial resistance using genomics and phylogenetics. I am interested in comparative genomics, molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics.