Senior global health security and laboratory systems leader with more than two decades of experience designing, leading, and advising donor-funded and partner-supported programs that strengthen national and regional capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats. Brings high-level expertise in GHS core capacities, public health laboratory systems, biosafety and biosecurity, outbreak preparedness and response, molecular diagnostics, One Health, and laboratory-based surveillance. Dr. Sanouri has experience working with ministries of health, U.S. CDC, NAMRU-3, GOARN, EMPHNET, Integral Global, and other strategic partners to translate technical priorities into implementable programs, proposals, capacity-building packages, and measurable public health security outcomes. He has a proven track record that includes leadership of Jordan’s Central Public Health Laboratory, regional disease control programming, multilateral evaluation missions, rapid response mobile laboratory exercises, and applied research on emerging and epidemic-prone diseases. Dr. Tarek is positioned to support donors, implementing partners, and governments in developing high-impact global health security investments that close preparedness gaps, strengthen resilient laboratory networks, and improve emergency readiness in complex, resource-constrained settings.
Regarding collaboration with IG, Dr. Al Sanouri has contributed to the development of a hospital incident response assessment in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi-Kurdistan. After assisting IG’s program team in administering the assessment, he also participated as the biosafety/biosecurity specialist by providing technical training to emergency medicine physicians, laboratory experts, and Ministry of Health officials at Shar Hospital. Following the training, he co-facilitated an in-person simulation exercise (SimEx), which tested the hospital’s capacity to detect, respond to, and manage a hospital-wide incident of public health concern.