Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani is currently the Director of the Director of the Non-communicable Diseases Prevention Programs Department in the Ministry of Public Health. He is the Associate Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College and at Qatar University.
He 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 his master in business administration in 2014 from HEC Paris - France (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris) which is a European Business School.
Over the past decade, he conducted clinical research studies in the most ethical and safest manner possible to develop an integrated approach to health prevention and promotion. He has published more than 60 articles in the Lancet Global Health, BMJ, BMC Public Health, BMC Nutrition, Journal of public health research, infectious diseases journal of translational medicine, journal of epidemiology and global health, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, International Journal of Dental Hygiene, the Journal of Nutrition, JMIR Diabetes, Vaccines Journal, the international Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, East Mediterranean Health Journal, the Cureus Journal of Medical Science, Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, Pan African Medical Journal. He developed the first Public Health Strategy in Qatar 2017-2022 and participated in the development of the National Health Strategy 2018-2022. He has headed number of national committees 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 in Qatar
