Center for Research and Development in medical education and health services (CRD) is a non-profit organization located in the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. It has been established in 1986 by Prof. Zohair Nooman; the founding dean of the Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine, supported by a fund offered by Kellogg’s foundation. In recognition to its efforts in developing medical education on national, regional and international levels, the center was declared as a WHO collaborating center in 1988.

We are proud to announce that the center for research and development in medical education and health services (CRD) at faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University has been redesignated as a WHO collaborating center for a new period from 2010-2014 after a thorough evaluation for 6 months by the WHO office in Geneva.