Mohamed Belhocine is an Algerian medical scientist and professor of internal medicine and epidemiology.
25 Facts About Mohamed Belhocine
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Mohamed Belhocine continued his university studies in medicine at the University of Algiers, where he obtained his medical graduation diploma in March 1976.
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Mohamed Belhocine was admitted to the medical residency at the Faculty of Medicine of Algiers and joined the specialty of internal medicine, which he pursued in the hospitals of Beni Messous and Birtraria.
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Mohamed Belhocine obtained his diploma in Special Medical Studies in December 1979.
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Mohamed Belhocine defended this thesis in 1986 and was appointed as a Doctor of Medical Sciences.
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Mohamed Belhocine then organized a recruitment competition for candidates for various paramedical corps and assembled a list of teachers chosen from among the medical and paramedical staff of the CHU.
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Mohamed Belhocine was the Assistant Teacher at CHU Algiers Ouest from 1982 to 1990, first at Beni Messous Hospital, then at Zeralda Hospital.
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Mohamed Belhocine belongs to the national expert committee for the nomenclature of medicines.
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Mohamed Belhocine is an expert with the Faculty of Medicine of Algiers and the Directorate of Training and Research at the Ministry of Health.
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Mohamed Belhocine is a teacher and responsible for the educational unit of health structures.
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In February 1997, Mohamed Belhocine was recruited by the regional office of the World Health Organization as a regional advisor for clinical and laboratory technologies and quality of care, with the mission of advocating for dissemination and implementation of WHO resolutions on quality of care and quality assurance in public health laboratories.
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From September 2003 to October 2006, Mohamed Belhocine was the WHO Representative in Nigeria.
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Mohamed Belhocine was personally involved in supporting the Federal Ministry of Health, in close collaboration with other partners, for resolving the controversy over the oral polio vaccine, which had started in August 2003 and had resulted in the roll-back of a serious polio eradication program in northern Nigeria and neighboring countries.
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Mohamed Belhocine supported the preparation of a national response plan for the health sector in the event of an influenza A virus subtype H5N1 epidemic.
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In November 2006, Mohamed Belhocine was reassigned to Tanzania as the WHO representative.
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Mohamed Belhocine became the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Tunisia and the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in January 2009.
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Mohamed Belhocine held this position until his retirement on 30 April 2013.
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Mohamed Belhocine supervised a team of 70 and coordinated the entire United Nations team.
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Mohamed Belhocine was designated as the United Nations Security Officer in Tunisia.
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Since 2013, Mohamed Belhocine has been called upon occasionally for national and international consultations in the field of public health and development.
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Mohamed Belhocine managed a multidisciplinary team of around 700 people with a budget of more than $52 million, while ensuring maintenance of the WHO-Guinea cooperation portfolio.
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On 29 December 2015, on behalf of the WHO, Mohamed Belhocine officially declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea.
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In 2020, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria, Mohamed Belhocine was writing, in collaboration with colleagues, a note contributing to the national response.
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Mohamed Belhocine was then called to join the Scientific Committee in charge of monitoring the epidemic with the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform.
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Mohamed Belhocine was installed on Wednesday, 10 June 2020 as the president of the operational unit responsible for monitoring epidemiological investigations as part of the measures taken by public authorities to face the risks of the spread of COVID-19 in Algeria.