Partners Committee
The partners committee consists of professionals in the fields of nutrition, public health, health, programming, computer engineering, website development, marketing, and public relations.
The responsibilities of the technical committee are :
- Support the food databank (Food composition data) collection at the country level;
- Work with EMFID partners to establish the standardization and quality assurance guidelines of food composition data in their country;
- Responsible for the data availability and quality of food composition data within the country;
- Implement or adopt EMFID standards and guidelines at the national level;
- Disseminate the EMFID platform at the national and regional levels;
- Stimulate the establishment of EMFID national network;
- Prepare the country's needs for integrating national legislation for food composition, and food quality.
The members of the technical committee are:
Dr.Radwan Qasrawi
Country representative of Palestine’s FCT
An expert in information and communication technologies. His research combines computer engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and biomedical engineering to study and develop advanced and hi-tech solutions in the fields of health and medicine at the national and global levels. He is the founder of The Palestinian Food Composition Online Databank was in 2017.
E-mail: radwan@staff.alquds.edu
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Dr.Maha Hoteit
Country representative of Lebanon’s FCT
Director of Master Program in Public Health Nutrition.
E-mail:
m.hoteit@ul.edu.lb
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Dr. Hamed R. Takruri
Country representative of Jordan’s FCT
Professor of Human Nutrition, The University of Jordan, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Nutrition and Food Technology.
E-mail:
h.takruri@ju.edu.jo
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Dr. Basma Dashti
Country representative of Kuwait’s FCT
Associate Research Scientist,Environment & Life Sciences Research Center,Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
E-mail:
bdashti4@gmail.com
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Fathiya Abdullah Al-Rashdi
Country representative of Sultanate of Oman FCT
Clinical Dietitian, Department of Nutrition, Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Health.
E-mail:
newshiner@hotmail.com
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