Dr. Mohammed A. Garout

Umm Al-Qura University

Dr. Mohammed Garout, is an Associate Professor of Public Health at faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He is a certified IPC surveyor with the Saudi National Accreditation for Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI) since 2008 after which he was appointed as the Team Leader of the IPC Specialty in 2015. Moreover, since 2014, he has been affiliating with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards International (ACHSI) as a certified assessor. During MERS-CoV epidemic in SA in 2014, he worked with other national and international IPC experts to successfully end the MERS Co-V outbreak. In addition, since COVID-19 pandemic started, he had joined the “National Saudi Committee of the Infectious Diseases and Infection Control” as a member to work on monitoring COVID-19 activities to develop and review the required updated recommendations/regulations to fight the pandemic.