Dr. Abdelhamid kerkadi obtained his PhD in Human Nutrition from Department of Nutrition, College of Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada in 1999. He joined Qatar University in 2006 and he was Program Coordinator from 2009-2012. He is currently an Associate Professor in Human Nutrition Program, Department of Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University.
Dr. Abdelhamid kerkadi's research is manly oriented to community nutrition and nutrition intervention especially obesity prevention. He recently received a grant (NPRP-Exceptional) from Qatar national Research Fund. He has published peer-reviewed articles in many journals. Dr Abdelhamid serves as the Editorial Board member of Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science , Journal of Food , Agriculture and Environment and Interenational Journal of Nutrition.