Alan Tita

Alan is Mary Heersink Endowed Chair of Global Health, Director of the Mary Heersink Institute of Global Health, and the Heersink School of Medicine Associate Dean for Global and Women’s Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA. As OBGYN Professor and Senior Vice-Chair for Research and Innovation, he also leads the Center for Women’s Reproductive Health. His background is in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Perinatal Epidemiology, and Global Health. Dr. Tita has led and continues to lead collaborative multi- and single-site obstetric/perinatal clinical trials and observational studies that influence practice and policy globally. He co-leads the Cameroon Health Initiative, a multidisciplinary collaboration by UAB and Cameroon partners to improve health care. Dr. Tita has served as consultant editor for Obstetrics and Gynecology and consultant for the World Health Organization, NIH (including NICHD National Advisory Council), CDC, and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.