Sheik Dr. Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Thani
Director of Public Health Department
Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar
Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani is Director of Public Health Department at the Ministry of Public Health since 2008. He is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College and Qatar University. He developed programs to protect the health of individuals, families and community in Qatar. He placed a high priority in developing the first Public Health Strategy 2017-2022 in Qatar. He is continually conducting clinical research studies in the most ethical and safest manner possible to develop an integrated approach to health prevention and promotion. He has more than 30 scientific publications in diabetes, environmental health, road safety, communicable diseases, obesity, among others.
Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani has headed number of national committees including the National Preventive Health Committee, which aims to address the many facets of transitioning from a curative to a preventive health focus and to ensure a robust preventive health governance system is in place.
He is the chairman of the Public Health Implementation Committee, and a member in the National Public Health Committee.
Qualifications
- Dr. Mohammed Bin Hamad Al Thani graduated from the Faculty of Medicine – Cairo University in 1998
- He completed his fellowship in Arab Board Program in Community Medicine in 2006
- He gained the Fellowship from the Faculty of Public Health in London in 2010
- He obtained a Master’s in Business Administration in 2014 from HEC Paris - France (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris) which is a European Business School
