Dr Jalal Mohammed is an award-winning academic, health management and leadership specialist and consultant with nearly two decades of experience in the higher education and public health sectors. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, where he has held this position since January 2023. Before this role, Jalal served as the Interim Head of the Department of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Fiji. He is an Executive Member of the Aotearoa Fiji Research Collective and Founder and Convenor of the Pacific Online Learning and Teaching Network, a community of practitioners across the Pacific committed to developing online learning and teaching in the region. He also serves on the National Council of the Public Health Association of New Zealand.