Dr. Zufishan Alam is an Assistant Professor at the School of Health and Environmental Studies. Trained as a medical doctor from Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Pakistan, she developed profound interest in Public Health, with specific focus on Preventative Healthcare and Epidemiology. She continued her academic journey to pursue a PhD in Public Health from the University of Queensland, Australia. During her postgraduate training, she was awarded with the Research Training Program Scholarship, by Commonwealth Government of Australia. Later, Dr. Alam joined Institute of Public Health in the United Arab Emirates University, where she was able to continue research activities and expand her expertise in public health education. Dr. Alam's expertise encompasses mixed methods research, biostatistics, health promotion, and behavioral epidemiology. Her outstanding contributions to research were recognized with an Excellence in Higher Degree Research award from the Public Health Association Australia.

Driven by the passion to contribute to the betterment of community health, Dr. Alam has collaborated extensively with government and non-government organizations to address health disparities among culturally and linguistically diverse migrant populations. She has been involved in content development for cervical cancer screening resources for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Australia. She has served as consultant member for number of working committees involved in policy changes for implementation of HPV self-sampling pathway for cervical screening in Australia.

A dedicated educator, Dr. Alam has been involved in a variety of academic activities for research methodology courses as well as learner supervision and mentoring at graduate and postgraduate levels, both in UAE and Australia for the last five years. She continues to serve as sessional academic at School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia. She is also a fellow member of International Gynecological Cancer Society and Association of Public Health Australia.