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Dr. Mohamed Khalil is an internationally recognised authority on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) research and policy. He is WHO expert and currently a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG). on TCIM and board member of the WHO TCIM EVIDENCE Project, he participated in the development of the global guidelines manual for integrating TCIM into national health systems and served on expert panels to craft the WHO global Traditional Medicine Research Roadmap.

Previously, he founded and led the Research Unit at Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, spending a decade as Technical Advisor for Research Development and International Cooperation and a member of the GCC TCIM Committee.

Trained originally as a paediatrician, Dr. Khalil’s MD thesis on vaccine failure sparked a parallel career in immunization science. He later spent ten years advising the Saudi Ministry of Health on vaccine research and collaborated on multiple WHO and UNICEF projects and served in the Executive office of the health ministers of the GCC states.
He is a Clinical Associate Professor at King Saud, Al-Qassim and Majmaah universities, serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, and has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications.

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