Tom Loney is an epidemiologist with broad interests and expertise in clinical and population-based research assessing the relationship between lifestyle, occupational, and environmental exposures and various health outcomes. He has worked in the UAE for the past twelve years conducting research and providing public, occupational, and environmental health advisory services to the defence, industrial and healthcare sectors. He is part of an international collaboration of researchers, clinicians, and policy makers working on the WHO/ILO joint methodology for estimating the national and global work-related burden of disease and injury, and I have been appointed as a member of the WHO/ILO Occupational Systematic Review Methodology Working Group. Tom’s current research portfolio includes two large population-based prospective cohort studies: (i) Mutaba’ah Mother and Child Study; and (ii) The UAE Healthy Future Study.
Academic Appointment
Associate Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Director
World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Occupational Health
Academic Programme Coordinator for Arab Board Community Medicine Residency Programme
Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Director of Master and PhD in Public Health Programmes
Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
World Health Organisation Temporary Advisor
World Health Organisation Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), Egypt
Assistant Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology
Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Consultant Occupational Physiologist & Head of Research
Optimal Performance Ltd., United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, UAE
Research Associate
Department for Health, University of Bath, UK
Professional Education
Biobanking Diploma
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
MFPH(UK), Membership by Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health
Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow)
FFOM(IRE), Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine
Royal College of Physicians, Ireland
PhD
University of Bath, UK
BSc (Hons)
University of Bath, UK
Teaching
- Designing, delivering, and coordinating a range of epidemiology, biostatistics, physiology, public health, occupational health, and environmental health modules in the Pre-Medical, Pre-Clinical, and Clinical Phases of MBBS/MD, Masters of Public Health, PharmD, and PhD in Public and Occupational Health programmes.
Honors and Awards
Membership by Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health [MFPH(UK)]
Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow)
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health Award (IOSH) Award for Research in the Middle East
Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine [FFOM(Ire)]
Royal College of Physicians Ireland
Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade
Approved by Her Majesty The Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister for Optimal Performance Limited’s outstanding reputation in the UK Defence and Security sectors for completing international contracts in Defence and Security in the United States of America, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates.
BASES Honorary Fellows Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year Award 2004
Award presented for the top applied physiology dissertation in the UK as judged by a peer-review panel of experts in the field.
Codamotion Prize for Best Final Year Student
(University of Bath, Bath, UK) – Award presented to final year undergraduate student who attained the highest overall degree mark.
Publications
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
- Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians Ireland
- International Epidemiological Association
Research Interests
- Maternal and child health epidemiology
- Physical activity and chronic disease epidemiology
- Occupational and environmental epidemiology
- Zoonotic and emerging infectious disease epidemiology
- Systematic review and meta-analytic research methods
Clinical and Community Service
- Member, Mediclinic Middle East Research Ethics Committee – December 2018 to Present
- Member, MBRU Institutional Review Board – April 2019 to Present
- Member, DHCA Research Ethics Committee – December 2019 to Present
- Member, UAE COVID-19 National Research Ethics Committee – April 2020 to Present