Dr Loai Albarqouni
Associate Professor - Research
Level 4, Building 5, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University
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Professional biography
Associate Professor Loai Albarqouni MD, MSc, PhD is an Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University. A/Professor Albarqouni is an internationally recognised researcher in evidence-based healthcare and primary care, and leads a research program at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University. His work focuses on closing evidence-practice gaps and improving health outcomes through non-drug interventions (NDIs), guideline-ready evidence, and digital health innovations.
Loai currently holds an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant and a Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant, and has secured over $1.5M in competitive funding. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including in The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Medical Journal of Australia, with >4,500 citations. Three times listed in the Stanford Top 2% Scientists, his research has shaped national and international clinical guidelines (e.g., RACGP HANDI, Heart Foundation CVD Risk Guidelines, NICE) and informed global health policy (WHO, Australian Government).
Mentoring and Supervision
Loai has supervised and mentored 38 research students, including PhDs, MScs, and MD projects, and 4 early-career researchers. His mentees have won competitive scholarships, fellowships, and awards, and published in leading journals (Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, JAMA Network Open). He is committed to empowering emerging researchers and fostering diversity and inclusion in research teams.
Awards
Research interests
Loai is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and Associate Professor at the Institute. His research expertise includes evidence-informed decision-making, effective non-drug interventions, and overdiagnosis and overuse of healthcare services in limited resources settings. He is a medical practitioner (MD) from Palestine, completed an MSc in clinical epidemiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a PhD in evidence-based practice at Bond University.
Professional admissions
- Chair and Board Member, Wiser Healthcare Executive Committee (2025–2026)
- Board Member, International Society of Evidence-Based Healthcare
- Scientific Board Member, Ecosystem of Evidence Conference (2026)
- Board Member and Co-founder, GoldNet Practice-Based Research Network
Professional appointments
- Editorial Board Member: Nature Scientific Reports, BMC Medicine, PLoS Global Health
- Peer reviewer for leading journals: JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine
- Member: NHMRC and MRFF grant assessment panels; ZonMw (Netherlands)
Qualifications
- Epidemiology, MSc, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Award Date: 1 Sep 2015
- Doctor of Medicine, MD, Al-Quds University, Award Date: 31 Jul 2011
- Evidence-Based Practice, PhD
Fields of Research
- Public health