Biography
Iman Hakim, MD, PhD, MPH, is a professor of public health and the Dean of the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH). Dr. Hakim is the Mel & Enid Zuckerman Endowed Chair in Public Health and the founding director of the Global Health Institute. She also has served as the Director of the Division of Health Promotion Sciences at MEZCOPH and as the director of family and child health concentration. She is a member of the UA Cancer Center and Sarver Heart Center at the UA College of Medicine. She holds joint appointments in the Department of Nutrition at the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UA College of Medicine.
She is internationally known for her translational research and work on the role of bioactive food compounds such as green tea and limonene in modulation of oxidative damage and prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Her research focuses on health promotion, dietary interventions, and the role of gene-environment and gene-nutrition interactions in chronic disease prevention.
She has been the Principal Investigator of several large-scale, behavior change interventions and clinical trials focused on nutrition and cancer prevention, tea consumption and coronary heart disease, chemoprevention of lung carcinogenesis using green tea; dietary interventions to study the effects of tea consumption on smoking-related oxidative stress and role of citrus-cancer association in Mediterranean diet.
Dr. Hakim has spoken at numerous national and international conferences.She was selected to represent the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASPPH) on the Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH) for A 3 year-term 2015-2017. She is the ASPPH representative to the One Health Global Think Tank for Sustainable Health and Wellbeing 2030 and a member of the executive council for the committee of international communication of Chinese Medicine under the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. She served on a panel of international health experts as a member of the Healthy Roads International Advisory Committee. She was the chair of the State of Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ABRC) from 2011to 2015 and the Co-Chair of the UA Population and Health Outcomes Advisory Council.
Dr. Hakim earned her medical degree from Cairo University in Egypt where she completed her Pediatric residency. She received her PhD in in child health and nutrition from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Arizona.
Work Experience
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2009 - Ongoing)
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2007 - Ongoing)
Sarver Heart Center; University of Arizona (2007 - Ongoing)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (2005 - Ongoing)
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (2005 - Ongoing)
Division of Cancer Prevention & Control, Arizona Cancer Center , University of Arizona (2005 - Ongoing)
College of Medicine, Univeristy of Arizona (2005 - Ongoing)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (2002 - 2007)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (2001 - 2005)
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (2001 - 2005)
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona (2001 - 2005)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (2001 - 2005)
College of Medicine, Univeristy of Arizona (2001 - 2005)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (2000 - 2001)
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1998 - 2001)
Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (1998 - 2000)
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona (1997 - 2001)
College of Medicine, Univeristy of Arizona (1996 - 2001)
Arizona Prevention Center, College of Medicine, University of Arizona (1996 - 2000)
College of Medicine, Univeristy of Arizona (1992 - 1996)
National Research Center; Egypt (1988 - 1992)
National Research Center; Egypt (1983 - 1988)
National Research Center; Egypt (1980 - 1983)
Pediatrict Hospital, Cairo University, Egypt (1980 - 1983)
College of Medicine, University of Cairo (1979 - 1980)
Awards
- Preventive Oncology Career Development Award (NCI-K07)
- NCI/NIH, Fall 1998
- Outstanding Faculty Award
- National Research Center, Egypt, Fall 1991
- Best Paper Award
- 8th Annual Global Health Care Conference Singapore, Summer 2019
- Elected as Chair of the “Accreditation & Credential Advisory Committee”
- the Association of Accredited Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASPPH), Spring 2019
- Selected as one of the six influential Middle Eastern Women for 2019
- National Egyptian Newspaper “El-Watan, Spring 2019
- Selected as member of the Organizing Committee
- 5th International Conference on Clinical Nutrition, Vienna, Austria, Spring 2018
- Selected as member of the Scientific Committee
- 3rd ISANH Middle East Antioxidants World Congress, Spring 2018
- Elected to join the executive Committee
- Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH), Spring 2017
- Selected as ASPPH representative to the One Health Global Think Tank for Sustainable Health and Wellbeing 2030
- Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASPPH), Spring 2016
- Selected to join the advisory board of The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona
- The Agnese Nelms Haury Board of trustee, Fall 2015
- Selected as member of the Scientific Committee of the 7th International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities Muscat, Oman
- ACCESS , Detroit, Michigan, Spring 2015
- Selected to represent the Association of Schools and Programs in Public (ASPPH) on the Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH) for a 3-year term 2015-17
- ASPPH, Spring 2015
- Selected as executive council member for the committee of international communication of Chinese Medicine under the World Federation of Chinese (2014-17)
- Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM), Fall 2014
- Selected member of the Arizona Healthy Aging Advisory group ( 2012-14)
- Arizona Department of Health Services, Fall 2013
- Best Oral presentation Award
- the International Society of Antioxidants in Nutrition and Health (ISANH) Polyphenols 2012 Conference in Paris, Summer 2012
- Appointed by the governor of Arizona to chair the Biomedical Research Commision for a 4-year term (2011-15)
- Arizona Department of Health Services, Spring 2011
- International Health Professional of the Year
- International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Winter 2005 (Award Nominee)
- College of Public Health Outstanding Research Award
- Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Fall 2005
- Selected member of Alpha Nu Chapter of the Delta Omega Society
- Honorary Public Health Society ; Zuckerman College of Public Health, Fall 2003
- Certificate of Appreciation for Minority Health
- University of Arizona, Fall 2002
- Loretta P. Lacey Award
- Association of Teachers in Maternal & Child Health (ATMCH), Fall 2002 (Award Nominee)