Summary of past and current positions:

• January 2025-Now: Professor of Dental Public Health at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at Al-Quds University
• September 2019-January 2024: Associate Professor of Dental Public Health at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at Al-Quds University
• August 2017-Now: Dean of Scientific Research at Al-Quds University
• December 2013-Now: Head of Oral Health Research and Promotion Unit at Al-Quds University
• May 2022-Now: Adjunct Professor at the Department of Global Oral Health, Temple University
• September 2012-Now: Adjunct lecturer at the University of Iowa, College of Dentistry
• September 2012-2023: Research Associate at the Public Policy Center, University of Iowa
• September 2012-September 2015: Adjunct faculty at The Ohio State University, College of Dentistry
• January 2010-December 2013: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Iowa, College of Dentistry, Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry.

Summary of International Committee and Associations Service:

• September 2024-Now: Councilor at the World Dental Federation FDI
• July, 2024-Now: Board Member at Dental Health Without Borders’ Advisory Board. TUG, https://www.tug-dk.org/en/about-us/
• February 2024-Now: Co-Chair of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM)
• July 2023-2026: President of the International Association of Dental Research IADR (Palestine Section).
• May 2023-2025: Chair of the Academic Network of Development Dialogue (ANDD) in the Arab Countries.
• October 2022-Now: Leader member at the Leading Ladies in Dentistry Initiative
• September 2022-Now: Board member of the Women Dentists FDI section: https://www.fdiworlddental.org/women-dentists-worldwide
• November 2021-now: member at the FDI Toothbrushing Consensus Recommendations Task Team
• September 2021-2024: Chair of the International Dental Federation (FDI) Public Health Committee
• September 2021-Now: Lead person on FDI project on developing educational materials for non-dental healthcare workers in underserved ar

• August 2024: Kateeb E, Nahla RSA. Addressing the Silent Crisis of Oral Health in Conflict Areas and War Zones. Int Dent J. 2024 Aug 16:S0020-6539(24)00208-9.
• July 2024: Garay J, Kateeb E, Zeballos D, Souza LE; Steering Committee of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement. Inequity in sustainable health today. Lancet. 2024 Aug 3;404(10451):429-430.
• December 2023: Glenny AM, Walsh T, Iwasaki M, Kateeb E, Braga MM, Riley P, Melo P. Development of Tooth Brushing Recommendations Through Professional Consensus. Int Dent J. 2023 Dec 4:S0020-6539(23)00963-2. doi: 10.1016/j.identj.2023.10.018. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38052700.
• October 2023: Kateeb E, Lee H. Oral Health as a Refugee Health Right. Int Dent J. 2023 Oct;73(5):593-594. doi: 10.1016/j.identj.2023.06.013.
• September 2023: Ortega-Verdugo P, Warren JJ, Gaeth GJ, Carter K, Kateeb E, Kolker JL, Shane DM. Assessing the Acceptability of Less Invasive Caries Removal Techniques for treating Deep Carious Lesions: A Conjoint Survey among Dentists Practicing in a Midwestern American State”. Caries Res. 2023 Sep 12. doi: 10.1159/000533658. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37699363.
• August 2023: Wahdan Y, Habash G, Kateeb E, Junaidy R, Jayash SN. The Impact of COVID-19 on Infection Control Measures in Dental Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Aug 4;20(15):6517. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20156517. PMID: 37569059; PMCID: PMC10418474.
• March 2023: Kateeb E, Lim S, Amer S, Ismail A. Behavioral and social determinants of early childhood caries among Palestinian preschoolers in Jerusalem area: a cross-sectional study. BMC Oral Health. 2023 Mar 15;23(1):152.
• January 2023: Amer S, Kateeb E. Mothers’ Employment and Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices: A Brief Report from Jerusalem Governorate. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 23;20(3):2066.
• December 2022: Mohammad A. I. Al-Hatamleh; Ma’mon M. Hatmal; Sulaf H. F. Mustafa; Mohammad Alzu’bi; Ali F. S. Al-Sou’b; Shahed N. S. A

• March 2024: The Most Active Researcher Award at Al-Quds University, College of Dentistry for research production in academic year 2022-2023
• March 2023: The most active researcher Award at Al-Quds University, College of Dentistry for research production in academic year 2021-2022
• March 2023: AQU Quality Publishing in Q1 and Q2 scientific journals award
• December 22nd, 2022: Best article in Health Research presented by the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research MoHE,( 2nd Place).
• March 30th, 2022: The most active researcher Award at Al-Quds University, College of Dentistry for research production in academic year 2020-2021
• March 2022: AQU Quality Publishing in Q1 and Q2 scientific journals award
• June 10th, 2021: elected one of the 100 Top Doctors by Doctor-To-Doctor initiative for class of 2022: https://top100doc.com/dr-elham-kateeb/
• May 31st, 2021: The most active researcher Award at Al-Quds University, College of Dentistry for research production in academic year 2019-2020
• October, 27th 2020: 1st place in Medicine and Dentistry Section at the Palestinian Third Undergraduate Research, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Dental Floss Among Dental Students at Al-Quds University. Raghad Saleh, Hiba Khrishie, Ruba Nieroukh, Mayar Danadneh, Israa Baker, Elham Kateeb.
• October, 27th 2020: 2nd place in Schools section at the Palestinian Third Undergraduate Research, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. The Educational, Emotional and Physical Effects of Lock-Down Due to COVID-19 on Palestinian Students: A Cross-Sectional Study. Saif Amer, Khalil Hamad, Fatima Idrees , Kamal Almasri , Elham Kateeb.
• February 2020: The most active researcher Award at Al-Quds University, College of Dentistry for research production in academic year 2018-2019
• February 2020: Qualified for the finals in Young Exceptional Speakers Mecca Dental Conference: Ruwa Allariya, Elham Kateeb.

Research Conference Presentations

• 1. May 25th 2024: Oral Health, the Missing Link in a Refugee Health Right: Content analysis of refugee health frameworks. Hyewon Lee, Noah Choi, Yelim Jung, Elham Kateeb. May 2024 Geneva Health Convention Forum, Geneva, Switzerland.
  2. March 14th 2024: Methodological Insights: Applying Stages of Change in Dentists’ Decision-Making. 2024 IADR Annual Meeting, New Orleans, the United States.
  3. May 2023: Oral Side Effects Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Analysis of VAERS Reports Oral Side Effects Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Analysis of VAERS Reports. World Federation of Public Health Annual Conference, Rome Italy. In review
  4. December 9th, 2022: Keynote speaker at the 6th International Association for Dental Research Africa and Middle East Region Conference (IADR AMER) in conjunction with the 3rd (IADR Saudi Division) Annual Conference. “Applying the “Stages of Readiness to Change” Model to Dentists’ Decisions: An innovative method to study the decision-making process”, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  5. November 21st, 2022: “Behavioral and Social Determinants of Early Childhood Caries among Palestinian Preschoolers in Jerusalem area: A Cross-sectional Study”. Presented at the 2022 Lancet Palestinians Health Alliance Research Conference, Berziet, Palestine
  6. May 11th, 2022: “Behavioral and Social Determinants of Early Childhood Caries among Palestinian Preschoolers in Jerusalem area: A Cross-sectional Study” Presented at the 4th Undergraduate Research Conference, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Palestine.
  7. October 27th, 2021: The Educational, Emotional and Physical Effects of Lock-Down Due to COVID-19 on Palestinian Students: A Cross-Sectional Study” Presented in 3rd Undergraduate Research Conference, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine
  8. July 24th, 2021: Social Support, Parental Stress and Locus of Control among Mothers and their Relationship with Early Childhood Caries in Jerusalem Area, Palestine. Oral presentation at the 2