Abdallah Daar

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Dr. Abdallah Daar is an emeritus Professor of Clinical Public Health, Global Health, and Surgery at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/daar-abdallah-s/|title=Abdallah S. Daar|website=www.dlsph.utoronto.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}} He has also been a Senior Scientist at the Research Institutes of University Health Network/Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, and the Hospital for SickKids.{{Cite web|url=http://www-old.uhnresearch.ca/institutes/|title=UHN Research: Institutes Home|website=www-old.uhnresearch.ca|access-date=2019-05-14}} At the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, from 2001 to 2007, he was the co-director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health, and the Director of the University of Toronto Program in Applied Ethics and Biotechnology.{{Cite web|url=http://jcb.utoronto.ca/people/jcbaffiliates.shtml|title=Joint Centre for Bioethics : People : JCB Affiliates|website=jcb.utoronto.ca|access-date=2019-05-14}} At the Sandra Rotman Centre, he was Director of Ethics and Commercialization.

In 2010, he was a co-founder with Peter Singer of Grand Challenges Canada,{{Cite web|url=https://www.grandchallenges.ca/|title=Grand Challenges Canada - Bold Ideas with Big Impact®|website=Grand Challenges Canada|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}} where he was also a member of the Governing Board, Chief Scientific and Ethics Officer, and Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board. Professor Daar was the founding chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases{{Cite web|url=https://www.gacd.org/|title=Home page|last=CGHE|website=GACD|language=en|access-date=2019-05-14}} (2009-2011) and Founding Chair of the advisory board of the United Nations University International Institute of Global Health.{{Cite web|url=https://iigh.unu.edu/|title=Keywords - International Institute for Global Health|website=iigh.unu.edu|access-date=2019-05-14}} He was also until recently, a member of the Board of Directors of Genome Canada; and a Member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Scientific Advisory Board.{{Cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/themes/science-sustainable-future/scientific-advisory-board-united-nations-secretary-general|title=The Scientific Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General|date=2013-10-31|website=UNESCO|language=en|access-date=2019-05-14}}

Professor Daar is a Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.{{Cite web|url=http://stias.ac.za/news/2016/12/abdallah-daar-named-permanent-visiting-fellow-of-stias/|title=Abdallah Daar named Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS|last=response|first=1 December 2016 {{!}} Categories: Uncategorized {{!}} Leave a|date=December 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}}

After medical schools in Uganda and London, England, he went to the University of Oxford, where he did post-graduate clinical training in surgery and also in internal medicine, a doctorate (DPhil) in Transplant Immunology, and a fellowship in organ transplantation. He was a clinical lecturer in the Nuffield Dept. of Surgery at Oxford for several years before going to the Middle East to help start two medical schools. He was the founding chair of surgery at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman{{Cite web|url=https://www.squ.edu.om/|title=Sultan Qaboos University|website=www.squ.edu.om|access-date=2019-05-14}} for a decade, before moving to the University of Toronto in January 2001.

Professor Daar's academic career has spanned biomedical sciences, organ transplantation, surgery, global health,{{Cite journal|last1=Daar|first1=Abdallah S.|last2=Singer|first2=Peter A.|last3=Leah Persad|first3=Deepa|last4=Pramming|first4=Stig K.|last5=Matthews|first5=David R.|last6=Beaglehole|first6=Robert|last7=Bernstein|first7=Alan|last8=Borysiewicz|first8=Leszek K.|last9=Colagiuri|first9=Stephen|last10=Ganguly|first10=Nirmal|last11=Glass|first11=Roger I.|date=November 2007|title=Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=450|issue=7169|pages=494–496|doi=10.1038/450494a|pmid=18033288 |bibcode=2007Natur.450..494D |s2cid=26885321 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}} and bioethics. He has worked in various advisory or consulting capacities with the UN, the World Health Organization, and UNESCO. From 1999 to 2010, he was a member of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Human Genome Organization; and from 2008 to 2015, he was a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee.{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/international-bioethics-committee/|title=International Bioethics Committee {{!}} United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|website=www.unesco.org|access-date=2019-05-14}}

Professor Daar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,{{Cite web|url=https://rsc-src.ca/|title=Welcome to The Royal Society of Canada {{!}} The Royal Society of Canada|website=rsc-src.ca|access-date=2019-05-14}} the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), the African Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web|url=https://aasciences.ac.ke/|title=Transformed lives through science {{!}} The AAS|website=aasciences.ac.ke|access-date=2019-05-14}} the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Islamic World Academy of Sciences.

In 2017 Professor Daar was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.