Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Biography

Professor Jamil has been a faculty member for 38 years. He is author of 20 books, has 171 research publications, and has given 189 presentations at national & international meetings. In March 1997 Professor Jamil immigrated to USA, and in 2000 he was appointed as Professor at Wayne State University / School of Medicine, and he retired as Emeritus Professor in September 2015. Prof. Jamil biography is listed in the 25th. & 26th. Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge / England. In September 2015 he joined Michigan State University, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Jamil is working on Community Outreach Research in the department to continue connections with different community organizations and continue collaboration with them in future research proposals as he is working on project entitle “Welcome to the United State: A community-engaged program for livening an integrated, healthy, and productive life” and project entitle Changing the negative mental health trajectory of newly arrived refugees: Determining the effectiveness of a risk-driven integrated intervention. Dr. Jamil’s research interests include the impact of environmental exposure (in particular Asthma) on the health and wellbeing new Americans (immigrants and refugees) in particular Arab/Chaldean people. He is engaged in a study titled “The Interaction between Lead and Trauma on the Epigenome and Proteome in Refugees”, and is also engaged in studies of the health effects from tobacco and water pipe (hookah), and means to counteract the spread of water pipe smoking among adolescents. Dr. Jamil is also interested in global research collaborations, especially with Swedish universities as he is building such collaboration with Lund University.

Research Interest

Community Medicine