Masoud Dara, MD
About Masoud Dara, MD
Dr. Masoud Dara is the Team Leader of the Tuberculosis Programme in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security & Environment at WHO Europe.
Dr. Masoud Dara is a physician and public health expert from Belgium. In addition to his medical degree, he has accomplished several courses and postgraduate studies including courses at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Dara’s professional career began as a clinician responsible for diagnosis and treating tuberculosis and implementing DOTS in rural and urban areas of Iran. Since 1998, Dr. Dara has been working with multiple national and international organizations implementing TB control programmes. He has worked as the Médecins Sans Frontières programme manager and medical coordinator of several TB control projects in Central Asia from 1998 to 2001. From 2001-2003 Dr. Dara worked as a WHO Medical Officer in the Russian Federation providing technical assistance to national health authorities and TB control services across the country. From 2003-2010, Dr. Dara worked as a senior consultant of KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in different countries mainly in the fields of MDR-TB, TB/HIV and TB-IC. Since 2008 Dr. Dara has been appointed as the Chair of scientific working group of TB control in prisons of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases. In the last six years Dr. Dara has provided technical assistance to different countries as a GLC consultant and MDR-TB and TB-IC trainer. Since September 2010, Dr. Dara has joined WHO Regional Office for Europe coordinating WHO technical assistance to the Member States in prevention and control of drug resistant TB. Dr. Dara speaks English, French, Russian, Persian and Dutch.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Manager (Site/Facility, Program, Project)
- Medical Officer, Director
Organization
- WHO Europe - EURO
Work Location(s)
- Denmark
Masoud's Communities
Language(s)
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Persian
- Russian
Recent Contributions
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Masoud Dara, MD replied to "Drink sharing" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, Dear colleagues, Do we have any reference to the aerodynamic diameter/size of the particulate mass produced in dry sweeping the floors? Thanks and regards, Masoud Dr Masoud Dara Senior Consultant International Unit KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation Parkstraat 17 2514 JD The Hague The Netherlands More than 1.5 million people lose their lives to tuberculosis every year. With early detection and proper treatment, most people with tuberculosis will fully recover. Our efforts and investment in ...
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Masoud Dara, MD replied to "Eye protection for Health Care Workers caring for Tb patients with artificial respiration" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Barbara, Greetings from Tbilisi where Paul and I are conducting a TB-IC training course for the countries of the region. Just to share my humble view, while it is important to think TB, one shall not forget about other infectious agents, particularly when providing care for a patient at ICU. Therefore whether it would be relevant in preventing a very rare condition such as eye TB or not, in the conditions you mentioned, wearing ...
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Masoud Dara, MD replied to "Definition of New TB patient?" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear colleagues, The principle reason for classifying patients to new and previously treated is their chance of being ill with a strain resistant to some of the first-line anti-TB medicines. In most settings, culture and DST are limited and molecular methods for diagnosis of resistance (e.g LPA) are not yet widely available. Therefore it is important to prioritize the patients who may have been exposed to anti-TB medicines to be screened for possible drug resistance. ...
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Masoud Dara, MD started a discussion "Guidelines for TB diagnosis and treatment inc. MDR-TB in prisons 2009" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear colleagues, For your information: the third edition of the Guidelines for Control of Tuberculosis in Prisons 2009 (http://www.tbcta.org/Zoeken/index.php?Zoekwoord=prison available in PDF) provides guiding principles for the implementation of the six elements of internationally recommended Stop TB strategy which in combination will accelerate the achievement of case detection and treatment targets and will cure and prevent the emergence of drug resistance. The primary audience is health and administrative staff working in prisons who need to ...
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Masoud Dara, MD replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear Stobdan, You have raised a good question and we hope to get some more insights from the members on the important role of nurses in different settings. The ratio would be indoubtedly different in different setting. However one important aspect is the roles and responsibilities of nurses, nurses can play very important role in supporting patient and providing a care he or she deserves in a patient-friendly supportive DOT, checking for symptoms/signs of side-effects,educating ...
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.