Dr. Mohammed Mohammed Al-Hajri
Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response Department, Supreme Council of Health, Qatar
Dr. Mohammed Mohammed Al-Hajri is a consultant in community medicine at the Qatar Supreme Council of Health. He completed his Bachelors in Medicine and Surgery (MBBCH) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1998 and obtained his Masters of Public Health from the University College Dublin in 2001. He has also completed a diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2001) and an International Diploma for Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) from the University of Geneva (2002). In 2008 he finished his Arab Board of Community Medicine. He was the Manager of the Supreme Council of Health’s Health Protection and Communicable Diseases Control Unit from 2010 to 2014 prior to commencing his current role as Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Department.
He represents Qatar’s health sector as a member in many national committees, including the Permanent Emergency Committee and National Relief Committee.
Since 2010 Dr. Al-Hajri has also been a member of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Committee (NITAG). He is also the National Coordinator for the IHR Implementation NFP Committee and the IHR focal point for WHO, roles he has held since 2015.
He has vast experience in research methodologies, outbreak investigation, management of communicable diseases programs and effective vaccines management.
