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Mowafa Househ
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'''Mowafa Said Househ (موفق سعيد حوسة),''' [[B.Comm]], [[Master of Engineering|M.Eng]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]. (/ɱœɯæɜɑ ɦœʂəɥ/;  born 7 December 1977) is a Palestinian-Canadian researcher, innovator, social entrepreneur, teacher, and author of [[health informatics]] in the Arab World residing in Saudi Arabia and affiliated with [[King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences|King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences]], College of Public Health and Health Informatics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iDtawK4AAAAJ&hl=en|title=Mowafa Househ, Associate Professor - Google Scholar(contracted; show full)> at the [[University of Victoria]] [https://www.uvic.ca/hsd/hinf/index.php School of Health Information Science], Victoria, BC, Canada. Househ was a former consultant for the United Nations Development Program and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of [http://www.jhidc.org/index.php/jhidc Health Informatics in Developing Countries]. In 2015, Househ was a visiting Academic Researcher at the [[University of Oxford]] Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health.


==References==Dr. Househ's primary research interests are in Public Health Informatics focusing on the use of information and communication technologies to '''empower''' '''patients''' and '''clinicians''', specifically focusing on Social Media and Mobile Technologies in Healthcare in the promotion of public health practice and healthcare literacy. 

== Early life and education ==

=== Family ===
Househ was born on 7 December, 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta to Said Mahmoud Househ (1948-Present) and Hanan Ghneim (1959-Present). Both of his parents are Palestinian. His father was born in Lydda (Lod) Palestine in 1948. His mother was born in Damascus, Syria in 1959, but her family was originally from Lydda (Lod) Palestine. Said studied Pharmacy at a technical college in Amman, Jordan. Said and Hanan met in Syria through a marriage arranged by both families. Said moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1970 from Kuwait, where he was working and running a Pharmacy in Kuwait City. Said and Hanan were married  in 1975 and Hanan moved to Edmonton, Alberta to join her husband. 

Househ's father ran a successful wholesale and gift ware business, "Sid's Wholesale" located at [[Northgate|Northgate Mall]]. They lived in a two bedroom apartment in Beverly, Edmonton in the late 70's and early 80's and then moved to the Castle downs neighborhood, where a large Muslim-Arab community was beginning to form. 

=== Primary and secondary school years ===
Househ began his schooling at [[Al-Rashid Mosque|Alrashid Mosque]] for Kindergarten and then continued his primary schooling at Glengarry Elementary which had an Arabic program.  ⏎

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