Prof. Foad Abd-Allah

Department of Neurology

Cairo-University, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Qualifications

2004 Post – Doctoral Clinical fellow, cerebrovascular unit, Neurology Department. National Hospital, Oslo University, Norway

2003 MD Neurology, Cairo-University, Egypt

1999 MSc Neuropsychiatry, Cairo-University, Egypt

1994 M.B.B.CH, Cairo-University, Egypt

Publications (Selected)

1. Bolaji, P., Ad Adams, E., Akinyemi, R., Owolabi, M., & Abd-Allah, F. (2025). Enhancing Africa's stroke workforce to address the stroke burden: a proposal from the African's stroke organization's educational and training committee. Frontiers in Stroke, 4, 1611194.
2. Rautalin, I., Volovici, V., Stark, B. A., Johnson, C. O., Kaprio, J., Korja, M., ... & Chattu, V. K. (2025). Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. JAMA neurology.
3. Avan, A., Feigin, V. L., Bennett, D. A., Steinmetz, J. D., Hachinski, V., Stranges, S., ... & Sahebkar, A. (2024). The burden of neurological conditions in north Africa and the Middle East, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet Global Health, 12(6), e960-e982.
4. Mensah, G. A., Fuster, V., Murray, C. J., Roth, G. A., & Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks Collaborators. (2023). Global burden of cardiovascular diseases and risks, 1990-2022. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 82(25), 2350-2473.
5. Feigin, V. L., Owolabi, M. O., Abd-Allah, F., Akinyemi, R. O., Bhattacharjee, N. V., Brainin, M., ... & Liebeskind, D. S. (2023). Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission. The Lancet Neurology, 22(12), 1160-1206.
6. Safdarian, M., Trinka, E., Rahimi-Movaghar, V., Thomschewski, A., Aali, A., Abady, G. G., ... & Shetty, P. H. (2023). Global, regional, and national burden of spinal cord injury, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet Neurology, 22(11), 1026-1047.
7. Wu, D., Jin, Y., Xing, Y., Abate, M. D., Abbasian, M., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., ... & Elmeligy, O. A. A. (2023). Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019. EClinicalMedicine, 64.
8. Singh, B., Lant, S., Cividini, S., Cattrall, J. W., Goodwin, L. C., Benjamin, L., ... & Jain, R. (2022). Prognostic indicators and outcomes of hospitalised COVID-19 patients with neurological disease: An individual patient data meta-analysis. PLoS One, 17(6), e0263595.
9. Owolabi, M. O., Thrift, A. G., Mahal, A., Ishida, M., Martins, S., Johnson, W. D., ... & Shobhana, A. (2022). Primary stroke prevention worldwide: translating evidence into action. The Lancet Public Health, 7(1), e74-e85.
10. Ward, J. L., Azzopardi, P. S., Francis, K. L., Santelli, J. S., Skirbekk, V., Sawyer, S. M., ... & Constantin, T. V. (2021). Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 398(10311), 1593-1618.
11. GBD 2019 Stroke Collaborators. (2021). Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. Neurology, 20(10), 795.
12. Owolabi, M. O., Thrift, A. G., Martins, S., Johnson, W., Pandian, J., Abd-Allah, F., ... & Stroke Experts Collaboration Group. (2021). The state of stroke services across the globe: report of World Stroke Organization–World Health Organization surveys. International Journal of Stroke, 16(8), 889-901.
13. Paulson, K. R., Kamath, A. M., Alam, T., Bienhoff, K., Abady, G. G., Abbas, J., ... & Chanie, W. F. (2021). Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 398(10303), 870-905.
14. Galles, N. C., Liu, P. Y., Updike, R. L., Fullman, N., Nguyen, J., Rolfe, S., ... & Gad, M. M. (2021). Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1. The Lancet, 398(10299), 503-521.
15. Beghi, E., Michael, B. D., Solomon, T., Westenberg, E., Winkler, A. S., Global COVID‐19 Neuro Research Coalition, ... & Schmutzhard, E. (2021). Approaches to understanding COVID‐19 and its neurological associations. Annals of Neurology, 89(6), 1059-1067.

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