Project 1
Implementing Partners:
US Department
In May 2022, IC and its collaborating partners implemented a chemical safety and security webinar series, with a specific focus on hospitals, academic universities, and industry personnel in both the provinces on Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The series provided participants valuable information on the history of chemical use in warfare, international safeguards to keep chemicals secure and public safety. The series included tools to recognize various chemical injuries, discussed basic principles of chemical security and described best practices for managing chemicals at the various sites of chemical use and storage.
Subject Matter Experts & Instructors
Dr. Ziad Kazzi
MD, FACMT,
FAAEM, Professor of Emory
University School of Medicine,
Immediate Past-President,
MENATOX
Samar Khalil
Environmental & Chemical
Safety Officer,
AUB
Farouk Merhebi
Director of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management,
AUB
Industry personnel and medical professionals from Indus Hospital Health Network participated in the first webinar series representing the province of Sindh. For the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa webinar, emergency medicine and hospital staff from Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar engaged with the Subject Matter Experts on various chemical topics.
Project 2
Implementing Partners:
US Department
of State
IGC, in collaboration with Emory University and Sandia National Laboratories conducted two, two-day chemical security webinars in Pakistan. Emergency first responders and pharmacists from Lady Reading Hospital and academia participants from COMSATS University Islamabad learned how to complete chemical and pharmaceutical-based agent (PBA) risk assessments, with an emphasis on discussing chemicals of concern. The participants also discussed chemicals of concerns’ historical use and varying levels of toxicity with the course instructors.
Subject Matter Experts & Instructors
Dr. Ziad Kazzi
MD, FACMT,
FAAEM, Professor of Emory University School of Medicine,
Immediate Past-President, MENATOX
Dr. Mirvat Abdelhaq
PhD, Principal Member of
Technical Staff, Sandia
National Laboratories
