Farouk Dako

Farouk Dako received the Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed a surgical internship at the Mayo Clinic and Diagnostic Radiology Residency at Temple University. He then completed fellowships in cardiothoracic radiology and imaging informatics at the University of Maryland. He is an Assistant Professor of radiology with the Cardiothoracic Imaging Division; a Scholar with the Center for Global Health; and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of RAD-AID International Nigeria Program and has led this program for over five years. His research interests include population and global health, specifically the role radiology can play in advancing health equity. He is interested in the utilization of big data to improve health outcomes of traditionally underserved populations. He has attended medical school at St. George’s University.