Dr Kholoud Al-Mutawaa
BSc, M.D, RTPCM, PHD, Executive MBA – HEC PARIS University.
Senior Consultant Public Health
Head Of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Ministry of Public Health.
World Health Organization Award Winner 2023
Dr Al-Mutawaa is a Senior Consultant in public health and head of non-communicable diseases in the MOPH since 2012 and diabetes prevention program manager since 2019.
She is the Co-Chair of the National Diabetes Committee (MoPH), A member in the National Screening Programs Committee, represent the ministry in the National Drug Addiction Prevention Committee and The Liaison Officer for The Sustainable Development Goals in the State of Qatar. Dr Kholoud highly involved in the implementation of health promotion programs including diabetes projects, tobacco cessation, mental and addiction, accidents, oral health, vision, and trauma, as well as public health-related research. She is responsible for both the Community medicine resident’s rotation as well as Qatar University public health students’ rotation at the NCD section in the MoPH.
She is leading many national programs, improving the governance/ management model for Non-Communicable Diseases and she is the Non- Communicable Diseases national focal point in WHO Geneva as well as a national member in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Diabetes Committee.
She was appointed in 2021 as a chair of EMRO Bureau of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in WHO Geneva as well as a WHO FCTC (WHO framework convention on tobacco control) focal point since 2014.
