Ahmad Abbadi

Ahmad Abbadi

Phd Student
Visiting address: Nobels väg 12a, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik, C8 MEB Grönberg, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a PhD student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB). My main supervisor is Tobias Nordström, and co-supervisros are Anna Lantz, Martik Eklund, and Henrik Grönberg. My research studies prostate cancer diagnostics epidemiology. I am a medical doctor, and I have a Master's in Public Health Epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. Before joining MEB as a PhD student, I have worked in tobacco control at World Health Organization - Jordan Country Office, as a regional coordinator at Framework Convention Alliance/Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC), a public health consultant at King Hussein Cancer Center, and a project officer at Global Research, Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH) Project, research assistant at the Aging Research Center (ARC) at KI, and scientist at Schain Research. My master's thesis studied mortality and biochemical recurrence after curatively-treated localized prostate cancer under the supervision of Markus Aly and Alessio Crippa. My interest areas are clinical epidemiology, urological epidemiology, decolonizing global health, tobacco control and learning about advanced statistical methods.

Research

  • Urological epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, and tobacco control

Teaching

  • 1. I have delivered lecture on Decolonizing Global Health as part of an introductory PhD course in Global Public Health, and Master's in Public Health as part of the introductory course in Public Health at KI;

    2. I taught in 2020-2022 about thematic analysis and meta-ethnography in the Qualitative Methods course for the Master's in Public Health Sciences at KI

    3. Teaching to Bachelor students as part of the REACH program: Epidemiological methods and study designs, bias in epidemiological studies, introduction to ethics, and introduction to academic writing.

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Grants

Employments

  • Phd Student, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2027
  • Research Assistant under Tobias Nordström, Prostate cancer diagnostics epidemiology, Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2023
  • Research Assistant under Amaia Calderon Larrañaga, Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2023

Degrees and Education

  • Master's of Medical Sciences in Public Health, Specialization in Public Health Epidemiology, Mortality and Biochemical Recurrence after Curatively-Treated Localized Prostate Cancer - Population-based Cohort Study, Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2021
  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, 2017

Distinction and awards

  • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Colleague of the Year 2025, Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2025
  • Best abstract presentation: Abstract session 32: Prostate cancer screening at its best, Best abstract presentation Abstract session 32: Prostate cancer screening at its best Sunday 7 April 2024, 15:45 - 17:15 , Green Area, eURO Auditorium 1 A0656: Can we reduce unnecessary prostate biopsies in patients with PI-RADS 3 lesions? Role of PSA density and the Stockholm 3 test Authors Abbadi A.1, Eklund M.1, Lantz A.1, Discacciati A.1, Chandra Engel J.2, Björnebo L.1, Falagario U.G.1, Grönberg H.1, Nordström T.1 Institutions 1Karolinska Institutet, Dept. of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Danderyds Hospital, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Solna, Sweden, European Association of Urology, https://urosource.uroweb.org/resource-centres/EAU24/best-posters, 2024

Committee work

  • Member, Epidemiology Program Steering Committee, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2025
  • Chair, Student Representation at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2025
  • Member, Educational committee at the Department of Global Public Health, Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2020
  • Chair, Public Health Section, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2020

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