Prof. OMAR B. DA'AR

Dr. Omar Da’ar is a professor of applied economics at the Department of Health Systems Management, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Dr. Da’ar was previously an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Professional Studies at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. He also worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in 2011. Dr. Da’ar is an experienced scholar in the field of health economics with expertise in health systems management. His research interests include health services, care management and delivery, healthcare needs outcomes measurements, healthcare resource allocation, comparative healthcare systems, global health, economic evaluation models, health policy impact, and value-based healthcare. He also served on the dissertation supervision committees of two PhD candidates and supervised the theses of more than 30 master’s students. Dr. Da’ar has received several competitive research grants as both a principal and co-investigator. He has published more than 30 original scientific research papers in high-impact and prestigious journals and has numerous monographs, report evaluations, and book chapters. Dr. Da’ar has made over 30 presentations at colloquia and conferences in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. Dr. Da’ar is a reviewer for high-impact and prestigious journals, including but not limited to: Health Economics Review, Asian Pacific Public Health, BMC Health Services Research, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Global Health, Global Journal on Quality and Safety in HealthCare, and Cancer Medicine.



Selected recent publications

1. Da'ar OB, Kalmey F. The level of countries' preparedness to health risks during Covid19 and pre-pandemic: the differential response to health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators. Health Economics Review. 2023 Mar 14;13(1):16. doi:
10.1186/s13561-023-00428-9.PMID: 36917372. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36917372/ 

2. Suliman Alghnam, Mohamed Alkelya, Mahdya Aldahnim, Nawfal Aljerian, Ibrahim Albabtain, Alaa Alsayari, Omar B Da'ar, Khalid Alsheikh  Ali Alghamdi. Healthcare costs of road injuries in Saudi Arabia: A quantile regression analysis. Accident Analysis & Prevention, Volume 159, September 2021. PMID: 34225170.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2021.106266.  - PubMed (nih.gov) 

3. Da'ar, Omar B., et al. "Does targeted therapy dominate in terms of a higher level of effectiveness for a given cost compared to wild-type treatment? An analysis of cost and outcome of metastatic lung cancer patients in Saudi Arabia." (2020): e19361-e19361. Journal of Clinical Oncology. Volume 38, Number 15_suppl https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.e19361



4. Omar B. Da'ar. Indirect costs associated with deaths of children aged 0-14 years from measles in a weak health system and conflict and fragile zone: the case of Somalia. Epidemiology & Infection, Volume 147, 2019, e252 | Cambridge Core. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268819001420. - PubMed (nih.gov)

5. Da'ar OB, Ahmed AE. Underlying trend, seasonality, prediction, forecasting and the contribution of risk factors: an analysis of globally reported cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.  Epidemiology & Infection, Volume 146, Issue 11, August 2018, pp 1343-1349 | Cambridge Core. - PubMed (nih.gov)

6. Da'ar OB, El-Metwally A, Abu-Saris R, Jazieh AR.  A finite and stable exponential growth-adjusted indirect cost of cancer associated with discounted years of life lost in Saudi Arabia. Heliyon. 2018 May 31;4(5):e00637 (nih.gov). 
 
7. Da'ar OB, Alshaya A. Is it cost-beneficial to society? Measuring the economic worth of dental residency training. Evaluation Program Planning. 2018. 19;68:117-123. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.02.012.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29549781ScienceDirect

8. Omar B Da'ar, Abdi A Gele. Tuberculosis in a weak health system, conflict and fragile zone: The monetary value of human lives lost associated with deaths of persons older
than 14 years in Somalia. International Journal Health Planning and Management. 2023 Jan;38(1):53-68. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36044037/ 

9. Elysia M Alvarez, et al., including Omar B. Da’ar. The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. GBD 2019 Adolescent Young Adult Cancer Collaborators. Lancet Oncology. 2022 Jan;23(1):27-52. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00581-7. Epub 2021 Dec 3.
PMID: 34871551  - PubMed (nih.gov)

10. Da'ar OB, Jradi H, Alkaiyat M, Alolayan A, Jazieh AR. Social Distress among Cancer Patients: Differential Effects of Risk Factors and Attenuating Role of Culturally Specific Social Support. Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jun 28;11(13):1876. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11131876.PMID: 37444710
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37444710/

11. Alahmary K, Kadasah S, Alsulami A, Alshehri AM, Alsalamah M, Da'ar OB. To Admit or Not to Admit to the Emergency Department: The Disposition Question at a Tertiary Teaching and Referral Hospital. Healthcare (Basel).2023, 11(5):667. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11050667.PMID: 36900670 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36900670/