ABOUT ME

Recognized public health expert, social scientist and thought leader with a profound understanding of the global public health and nutrition context. For over 20 years, Dr. El-Kour has delivered progressive public health strategies with a behavior change focus. More recently, Dr. El-Kour’s technical specialty has evolved to address the changing landscape of health promotion, incorporating social media and media psychology to public health and humanitarian programming to reach entire populations and drive behavior change. As a champion for innovative solutions to complex public health challenges, Dr. El-Kour brings transformative, cutting edge approaches to deliver progressive thinking strategies in implementing programs and projects on behalf of the United Nations, international, governmental, and non-governmental agencies. She enjoys exceptional ability to lead and engage in dialogues with high level parties while applying culinary diplomacy, conflict resolution, negotiation, and emergent technology to inspire change in positioning of views. She also brings forward lessons learned from reviewing, mediating, and analyzing dialogue experiences and best practices to diverse practice and country settings.