Osman Ahmed Dar is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) specialized in public health medicine and communicable disease control. He has wide ranging international experience of health system strengthening, humanitarian response and global health security having lived and worked across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Internationally, Osman is a Senior Advisor on Policy and Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention where he is currently based. In addition, he is a working group co-chair for the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), where he advises WHO, WOAH, FAO and UNEP on the development of their global One Health strategies, including their joint activities on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, the control of emerging zoonoses, and other health crises at the human-animal-environment interface.
In his role at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Osman is a senior medical consultant in global health with a broad portfolio of activities as a technical operational lead, educational supervisor and senior research academic publishing extensively across public health and related disciplines. He was the lead coordinating author for the 2023 Lancet Series on Global Health Security and One Health. At Chatham House, Osman is an Associate Fellow with the Global Health Programme. His primary focus is on supporting the institute’s One Health projects including multi-sectoral collaboration for the prevention and control of outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, emerging infections, food safety and antimicrobial resistance.
