Dr Osman Dar

Dr Osman A Dar is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK). Osman completed his medical degree at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan before going on to do clinical training in general medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He subsequently undertook specialist training in Public Health and Communicable Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London/KSS Deanery School of Public Health.

At Chatham House, he is director of the One Health Project - an umbrella term referring to the Institute’s work on emerging infections, ecological approaches to disease control, antimicrobial resistance, environmental public health and health inequalities, and sustainable livestock development and its links to food security and nutritional outcomes. For the UK Health Security Agency, he is technical co-lead on One Health for the global International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity building programme and sits on the UK cross-government technical working group on One Health. Osman has taken part as an invited expert, trainer and facilitator for numerous initiatives on disaster preparedness and response, health security, and IHR capacity building across Europe, Africa and Asia.

As part of his commitment to academic research, training and capacity building, Osman has written widely on One Health matters with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, in addition to numerous government and UN agency reports, and has helped secure over £25,000,000 of funding through competitive grants and development funding. Current grant roles include being Principal Investigator on a Gates Foundation project focused on global governance and institutional fragmentation in the food and agriculture sector, as Co-Investigator for the EDCTP-PANDORA research consortium working on emerging infections in Africa, and as Co-Investigator on a UK NIHR grant examining behavioural interventions to improve COVID-19 outcomes in ethnic minority communities.