Environmental Health and Alberta First Nations Children – Dr. Wadieh Yacoub

Dr. Wadieh Yacoub is a community medicine specialist working as the Medical Officer of Health and Director of Health Protection at First Nations and Inuit Health of Health Canada in the Alberta Region since 1998. His focus is on Communicable Disease Control, Environmental Health Services and Communicable Disease Emergencies

Dr. Yacoub is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a clinical assistant professor in the departments of Public Health and Community Health Sciences at the Universities of Alberta and Calgary.

Dr. Yacoub greatly enjoys working with the Alberta regional and community Public Health teams to address the First Nations community health issues including children health.  He is a ‘believer’ in the value and power of prevention.