Ghadah Alkhaldi غادة الخالدي

2013-2016 PhD in Public Health, University College London

2011- 2012   Master of Public Health (MPH), Imperial College London

2005- 2010   Bachelor Degree in Applied Medical Sciences with a specialty in Community Health Education, King Saud University

2011- Lecturer: King Saud University, Community Health Sciences Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2010-2011-intern: King Faisal Hospital and Research Center, King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital, School Government Health Center, and Obesity Research Chair at King Khalid Hospital.

AWARDS
Saudi Cultural Bureau Award of Excellence, 2015
Saudi Cultural Bureau Award of Excellence, 2016
2011-2016: full scholarship to pursue post graduate studies

RESEARCH INTEREST AND SKILLS: 
I have always been interested in developing behavior change interventions and campaigns, and with the current focus on eHealth and its use in health care, I focused my PhD on a developing a behavior change complex intervention using ehealth tools. My PhD was about the development and use of email and text message prompts to engage users of Type 2 diabetes website intervention. My doctoral research involved various methodologies including the conduction of systematic reviews, mixed method studies (qualitative and quantitative data and analysis methodologies) and online randomized controlled trials. Whilst doing my PhD full time, I was involved with the HeLP-Diabetes team, which was involved the development, evaluation and implementation of a website intervention targeting Type 2 diabetes; my most important role was to work with our patient representatives to develop and maintain the website content and prompts (patient and public involvement). I have also been involved in planning and organizing a series of ehealth knowledge sharing seminar (UCL) and national campaigns (KSU) as well as being invited to speak about ehealth behavior change interventions and ehealth nationally and internationally.