Dr. Raouf Alebshehy is a public health consultant with a background in medicine and healthcare reform. He currently works as managing editor of TobaccoTactics – part of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath and a partner in the global tobacco industry watchdog STOP. He manages a team interested in maximizing the impact of tobacco control policies through monitoring and countering tobacco industry interferences.

Raouf worked in international public health policy, including with the World Health Organization, and the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He was the Eastern Mediterranean Region’s coordinator for the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic and was the technical officer for reporting and knowledge management for the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.

Raouf worked in planning, managing, monitoring, and evaluating health programs in fields of communicable diseases, NCDs, health systems development, health promotion, and quality management. He also has field experience as primary healthcare physician and has coordinated health projects with public sector, NGOs, and UN agencies.