Nazar Shabila has MSc degree in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and PhD in Community Medicine from Hawler Medical University. He is a professor of community medicine. He is currently the President and Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University in Erbil.  He teaches different courses, including epidemiology of communicable diseases, health economics, biostatistics, health information, and demography.  He has more than 80 publications. His current research is mainly related to health services research, women’s health, conflict and health, and medical education. He has extensive higher education management experience, as he worked as the vice president for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies at Hawler Medical University for around 5 years. Before pursuing his academic career, he established seven years of experience in the humanitarian relief field through working with the ICRC and UNOPS-IDPs Project on addressing the needs of internally displaced people.