Dr Fariba Al-Darazi is the former Coordinator Health Workface Development and Regional Adviser for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Personnel at the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization. She worked at WHO from May 2000 until October 2015.
Dr Al-Darazi was one of the three first Bahraini tutors who joined the School of Nursing in 1974. She was a member of the team that worked with the consultants from the American University of Beirut (AUB) to transform the School of Nursing to a College of Health Sciences in 1976.
She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Nursing Sciences from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986. She was the first GCC national to obtain a Ph D in nursing. She was appointed as the Chairperson of the Nursing Division at the College of
Health Sciences in 1987 and in 1990 the Division was designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Development and thus it became the First WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and she was appointed as the Centre’s Director.
In, 2006, Dr Al-Darazi, was decorated by His Majesty King of Bahrain for Competence First Degree. In 2009, she received an award for excellence as a pioneering woman in health in Bahrain from the President of the Supreme Council for Women, Kingdomof Bahrain. Dr Al-Darazi was appointed as a member of the Supreme Council of Health in the kingdom of Bahrain from June 2016 until April 2019.
