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Senior Advisor for Central Asia Field Epidemiology Training Program
CDC Central Asia office, Kazakhstan
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Biography
Dilyara Nabirova, MD, MPH, PhD Candidate
Medical Epidemiologist
Senior Advisor for Field Epidemiology
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Central Asia Region
Dr. Dilyara Nabirova is a senior technical advisor for the Central Asia Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) at CDC. She oversees all aspects of the FETP implementation from budgeting to teaching new residents. She is responsible for mentoring and managing sustainable cohorts of highly skilled field epidemiologists. Specifically, she develops and implements the curriculum, ensures the scientific excellence of the training, and supervises the advanced-level (2-year) FETPs residents in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. She provides scientific direction on the design, initiation, coordination, and conduct of epidemiologic research, including writing protocols and the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of data related to such activities, for over 30 FETP residents assigned to Ministries of Health (MOH) or provincial and local health departments. She presides over epidemiologic investigations of complex public health problems, such as acute outbreaks, and clusters of illness, including infectious, chronic, environmental, occupational, and other threats to health, in international settings and makes time-sensitive recommendations for prevention and control.
She is also currently a PhD candidate at the International Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, University of Tampere, Finland. She serves as a consultant to international, regional, national, and local health professionals and agencies, public and private healthcare providers, public health workers, and governmental agencies providing advice and technical assistance, collaborating to find novel solutions to obscure problems, and making decisions or recommendations that significantly affect the context, interpretation or development of matters critical to global public health.