Profile
Biography
Omara's research focuses on supporting behaviour change to stop tobacco use in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in the UK and internationally. She has a keen interest in studying the quality of intervention delivery and patient-provider interactions in health care settings, and their impact on patient outcomes.
Please visit Omara's University of York Pure profile for information on research and publications.
Qualifications
- PhD, Health Sciences, University of York, UK
- MPH (Major: Epidemiology), University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, USA
- MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery), Bolan University of Medical & Health Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan
Departmental roles
Research
Overview
Omara's expertise lies in:
- Health behaviour change
- Behavioural tobacco treatment
- Patient communication and engagement in health behaviour change
- Tobacco cessation in lung health conditions
- Tobacco control policy evaluation
- Niche tobacco product use
- Methods for measuring intervention fidelity
- Sugar Sweetened Beverages policy landscape in Bangladesh
For a full list of outputs, please visit Omara's University of York Pure research page.
Research group(s)
Teaching
Postgraduate
Supervision
Omara is willing to supervise projects that fall within her research expertise.
PhD trainees: