Gehane Al Garraya

Gehane Al Garraya is a Technical Assistant in the Library and Knowledge (LKS) unit, Department of Science, Information and Dissemination (SID) at the World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO). She is the team leader of the Library Systems and Databases team. This includes the WHO Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR), the Institutional Digital Repository (IDR). She is also in charge of updating the EMRO Collection in the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS).

Ms. Al Garraya is also, in-charge of the Arabic and French translations of training materials and Arabic websites of Research4Life programmes, in general, and Hinari in particular.  She participated in and contributed to several Research4Life and Hinari training workshops in EMRO. She is the focal point of the Global Index Medicus (GIM) Technical Committee.