Dr. Muhammad Farooq Umer

•Consultant Public Health – SCFHS | Saudi Commission for Health Specialties | Profile No. 22472186
•Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH) | RSPH London, UK | Membership ID: 126554
•Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) | Registration No. 6831-D
•Approved PhD Supervisor | Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan
•PhD Supervisor | Lincoln University College, Malaysia
•PhD Supervisor & Adjunct Faculty | School of Dentistry, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU), Islamabad, Pakistan
•Academic Editor, PLOS ONE (Q1) | Since 2021 – present | 65+ approved editorial records at WoS
•Premium Residency Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Special Talent Residency Since April 2026

Assistant Professor, Dental Public Health
College of Dentistry, King Faisal University | Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Adjunct Faculty & PhD Supervisor
School of Dentistry, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) | Islamabad, Pakistan

Assistant Professor Public Health | Weekend Program
Alshifa School of Public Health | Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Senior Public Health Consultant (Part-time)
Contech International Health Consultants | Lahore, Pakistan

Teaching Assistant & PhD Researcher (Part-time)
School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University | Xi’an, China

Regional Coordinator – TB-PPM & ECD/Maternal Mental Health (Part-Time Consultant)
Association for Social Development | Pakistan

Senior Registrar and Assistant Professor
Islam Medical and Dental College | Pakistan

Project Officer, Research & Advocacy
Research & Advocacy for Health, Education, Environment | Islamabad, Pakistan

District Program Supervisor – Primary Health Care
National Commission for Human Development | Islamabad, Pakistan

Dental House Officer
Nishtar Hospital | Multan, Pakistan

Principal Investigator Grants
1.KFU (INSTV001, 2023) – A Systematic Review on Water Fluoride Levels Causing Dental Fluorosis
2.KFU (Grant 4,452) – Respectful Maternal Care Experience in LMICs: A Systematic Review
3.KFU (GrantA391, 2024) – Digital Dentistry Knowledge and Practices among Dental Students at KFU
4.KFU (KFU242328) – RCT on mHealth Approach for Antihypertensive Treatment Adherence, Pakistan
5.KFU (KFU251553, 2025) – Innovation and Transformation of Public Health (Book)
6.KFU (KFU251552, 2025) – The Role of the State in Health Management (Book Chapter)
7.KFU (KFU251497, 2025) – Antibiotic Resistance in Dental Care: Dentists’ Knowledge and Prescribing Patterns, Al-Ahsa
8.KFU (KFU251396, 2025) – AI-Driven Risk Stratification of the Lingual Foramen: CBCT-Based Prevalence & Morphological Analysis
9.KFU (KFU252834, 2025) – Effect of Educational Intervention on Pharmaceutical Promotion among Medical Students, Pakistan
10.KFU (KFU253953, 2025) – Oral Hygiene Practices of Hospitalized Patients in Public and Private Hospitals in Al-Ahsa
11.KFU (KFU253095, 2025) – Non-adherence to Oral Antidiabetic Medications: Nationwide Multicenter Study, Pakistan
12.KFU (KFU253417, 2025) – Socio-demographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Non-adherence to Stroke Medication: Multi-hospital Cross-Sectional Survey, Punjab, Pakistan

13.Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) / China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2015M570842) / National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81502892)
14.Gambella Regional State Bureau of Health – Non-Institutional Childbirths and Socio-Demographic Factors, Ethiopia
15.KFU (Grant 2178) – CBCT Evaluation of Periapical Pathologies and Maxillary Sinus Mucosal Thickening
16.KFU (Grant 5618) – Mutational Analysis of Integrin Subunit Alpha-1 and Periapical Wound Healing
17.KFU (KFU250333) – Saudi Dentists’ Awareness about "Hot Tooth" and Its Management
18.KFU (KFU251441) – AI-Powered Prediction and Clustering of Oral Cancer Awareness: A Machine Learning-Based Public Health Strategy

Alshifa School of Public Health, Pakistan (MSPH; Spring 2022)

College of Dentistry, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia (MDPH)

Lincoln University College, Malaysia (PhD – Co-Supervisor)

School of Dentistry, SZABMU, Islamabad, Pakistan (PhD Supervisor)

•Book Editor: "Innovation and Transformation of Public Health" (IGI-Global, 2025; ISBN: 9798337319926; DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-1992-6; Scopus indexed)
•Book Chapter: Springer Nature (ISBN: 978-981-97-9826-1)
•Book Chapter: IGI-Global (ISBN: 9798369390924; EISBN: 9798369390948) and few others

• Epidemiological research & spatial-temporal analysis
• Systematic reviews & meta-analysis
• Research supervision & PhD mentoring
• Grant writing & research project management
• Project evaluation & M&E (WHO, UNICEF, USAID, GF)
• Academic accreditation & curriculum design
• Public speaking, training facilitation & capacity building
• Dental public health & oral disease epidemiology

•Certificate of Appreciation from the Vice President KFU, for supervising research of the PG students and publication in the Q1 journal (May 2026)
•Certificate of Appreciation from the Dean, College of Dentistry, KFU, for Community Partnership Committee (January 2026)
•Research grant funding from KFU Deanship of Scientific Research awarded consecutively (2023, 2024, 2025)