Meet the Team

Dr. Ranin Soliman is an Oxford DPhil Graduate and the founding member of the Oxford–Egypt EBHC Alliance. She completed her DPhil (PhD) in Evidence-Based Healthcare in 2023 from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at the University of Oxford, UK. Ranin is a health scientist, clinical epidemiologist, and a health economics and outcomes researcher, with expertise in Evidence-Based policy and practice in healthcare. She is an Assistant Professor of Evidence-Based Practice and teaches core Evidence-Based healthcare skills and courses on the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Egypt. Ranin also serves as an Evidence and Data to Policy consultant at the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, providing technical advisory services to strengthen national capacities for evidence-informed policymaking in healthcare covering the 22 countries in the region.

Dr. David Nunan is a supporting founder of the of the Oxford–Egypt EBHC Alliance, and a senior researcher and educator in Evidence-Based healthcare at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. David is a Senior Research Fellow and departmental lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the director of the MSc in EBHC Teaching and Education and the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) and a Supernumerary Fellow at Kellogg College.

Professor Sir Muir is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems
who has held some of the most senior positions in the NHS in screening, public
health, information management and value-based healthcare, and has advised
governments of several countries outside the UK. He has advised Public Health
England and was appointed as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS and
awarded both a CBE and later a Knighthood for services to the NHS.

Professor Sir Muir Gray is an honorary professor at the Nu eld Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. In 1994, Sir Muir Gray started an Evidence-Based
medicine movement in the UK, and he invited David Sackett, a pioneer of modern-day Evidence-Based medicine, to Oxford to establish the CEBM.

Dr. Nancy Bolous is a Senior Research Scientist at the Disease Burden and Simulation in the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She is also an Instructor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, where she teaches the Health Economics course in the Global Child Health Master’s Program. She joined St. Jude from Cairo, Egypt, where she worked as a project manager on various health care projects on a national and international scale.