Ziad Ahmed Memish

Ziad Memish is currently a senior consultant in infectious diseases and Director of Research & Innovation Center at King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also a Professor at the College of Medicine at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and an Adjunct Professor at the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Georgia, United States.

Professor Memish obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa, in Canada, in 1987, and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Infectious Diseases as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada, Edinburgh, and London) and the American College of Physicians. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in mass gathering medicine and infection control. He established the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gathering within the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Anti-Microbial Resistance, hosted within the King Abdulaziz Medical City Hospital under the Ministry of National Guard. He is also the Chair of the National Scientific Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 and the Chair of the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccines under the Royal Court. He has published more than 850 papers and book chapters and is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health and of the Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal.