Sohrab R. Dalal

Examples of successful international activity in wider health care;

• Handbook of Global Health, Security, and War. A publisher commissioned international handbook on Global Health. Author and editor of Chapter on Lethal Effects of weapons. Published Sept 2025.
• Invited Specialist Advisory Team member for World Health Organization with detailed input to development of Emergency Medical Teams Initiative 2025.
• Global Health Scientific Organizing committee of EU Parliament Colloquium on Disaster Medicine and Public Health. (80 delegates from WHO, World Association of Disaster Medicine and Association of Schools of Public Health Europe) March 24.
• Manual of Definitive Trauma Care 2024 Author for chapter (Psychological Effects of Trauma) for international training manual on trauma surgical care, the course text book for Definitive Surgical Trauma Care.
• Review and edit of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Hazard Information Profile working through the UK Health Security Agency.
• Scientific Committee for EU Grant application for Non-technical Surgery Skills training and education for Trauma Surgery (CREDO QI project).
• International Committee of the Red Cross. Review and advisory role for Health Care in Danger publication.
• United Nations HQ New York. Delivered curriculum design of UN Field Medical Officer Course. Faculty teaching member delivering workshops and seminars on clinical leadership.
• Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.

• Company Overview: Division of Healthcare Management and Occupational Safety and Health delivering Mental Health Strategy product and electronic learning program on mental health to >100,000 uniformed personnel worldwide.
• Successful delivery of Mental Health products for use worldwide across all UN Missions delivering improved MH literacy and reduced burden of illness.
• Division of Healthcare Management and Occupational Safety and Health delivering Mental Health Strategy product and electronic learning program on mental health to uniformed personnel worldwide.

• Company Overview: Medical Innovation.
• Product Owner and Developer of key component of NATO Digital Transformation with ab initio development and operational delivery of medical software applications for battlefield casualty management resulting in real time patient management across multi-command levels and geographical areas, and improved efficiency of the evacuation chain, thus saving lives. Five iterative and improved versions launched.
• Contribution to the development of the NATO Cognitive Warfare Concept resulting in greater understanding and approach to capability strengthening in this domain for NATO nations.

• Strategic planning and implementation for the UK Defence Medical Services future improvement program. Successful deliverables include;
• Project coordinator for MOD wide strategic Health Care Improvement program to deliver efficient health care to the military population.
• Core team for MOD strategic Health Care Operating Model framework.
• Ministry of Defence Medical Operating Concept from initial design through military judgment panels, customer enquiry, operational analysis and writing workshops to product delivery and implementation. The revised operating model is a defence wide requirement to deliver health care on operations and at home and improves integration with the whole force.
• Core writing team for pan-defence Medical Digital Transformation Strategy with documentation delivery.
• As part of modernizing defence and improving the digital world, this key document sets out the strategy and plan for digitization and interoperability with wider defence information infrastructure.
• Core working team and specialist clinical adviser over 10-year period for replacement of MOD Clinical Information system, (DMICP) under contract with CGI. Board level meetings with CGI UK team through project planning phases.

• Delivered NATO Medical Strategy and 5 Year plan for the transformation of Medical Support to Operations on behalf of the NATO Alliance.
• Program and Transformation Director for NATO Alliance medical program of works. Examples of successful on time, within budget products and services delivered include;
• NATO Medical Support Capstone Concept. Overarching futures document to identify and direct future medical operating concept for all NATO nations. Ratified by the North Atlantic Council, the highest authority within NATO, this work placed a hand rail and guidance for nations to strengthen and improve their own and combined, collaborative medical support in the face of the changing character of war.
• NATO AJP 4.10 Medical Support to Operations Re-write of key NATO medical doctrine to modernize medical support with novel medical support characteristics for contemporary warfare.
• NATO Defence Planning cycle with key input for MED capability over NDPP cycle for Nation's contribution to NATO medical capability.
• Program Director for design and delivery of Common funded capability for NATO including integrated software application – adopted by 16 nations as national solution for requirements. In the absence of suitable modern Information management across Support Services such as logistics, engineering and medical support designed collaboratively the approach to information exchange and delivered a minimum viable product for operational use. Designed for NATO, the impact was far reaching as it was adopted by 16 nations for national use, thus significantly improving interoperability between nations.
• Delivered international in person and on-line conferences on Medical Support related topics such as AI in Health care, Medical Logistics, Medical Software. Chaired and delivered high level workshop sessions with internationally acclaimed speakers to >1000 on line sites internationally during COVID-19 pandemic. Took the medical community through the establishment of a community of interest in medical innovation and onto a mature ecosystem where new medical techniques and innovation can be shared as best practice.
• Successful innovation capabilities delivered and used on battlefields includes a novel neuromodulation device improving sleep rest cycles for special operations, a digital triage assistant for mass casualties, real time casualty software application and others.
• Ab initio design and delivery of the NATO Medical Senior Staff Officer Course delivering high level training to over 120 NATO medical staff members and thereby improving collective understanding and productivity of personnel when working within NATO.
• Senior Clinical Inspector for NATO Partnership Training and Education Centre (PTEC) of a national Medical Academy for accreditation as a NATO PTEC facility. The impact is to have access to high level training facilities for combat medical technicians, paramedics and allied health practitioners thereby improving medical support to operations.

• North of England Director. Leadership and management of 20 medical centres. Responsible for the geographical area of the North England. Departments include Primary care, Rehabilitation, Occupational Medicine and Community Mental Health.
• Leadership of operational outputs for health-related services. Managerial responsibility for personnel (>450 staff), finance (Multimillion GBP), quality improvement, strategy, clinical governance and patient safety. Responsible for 25,000 patients.
• National level award for strategic planning and program infrastructure to combine military and civilian health services into a single site.
• Successful initial bid for rebuild of four sites into single site and creation of clinical operating model. The Catterick Integrated Care Centre is scheduled to open in late 2025.

• Similar role to above for military personnel civilian and entitled dependents for health care delivery in the firm base areas.
• Project board as Specialist Clinical Adviser for successful £500m contract re-let for Clinical services to contractor provider. Successful managed drawdown and hand over to selected contractor. Board member for ITT, bid and contract let and subsequent contract monitoring.

South East Asia regional Senior Medical Officer

Medium sized medical practice with >60 staff delivering medical care to families and Armed Forces Personnel with Aviation, Naval and land forces capabilities. International Medical Relations across South East Asia.

• Combat operational duties including Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Lead clinician on three separate combat operations responsible for all out of hospital care across the area of operations for conventional and special operation forces.