Ahmad Mohd Al Mulla, MD, MPH, DrPH
Dr. Al Mulla is a Senior Consultant in Public Health and Disease Control and the Director and Founder of the Tobacco Control Center - a WHO Collaborating Center at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). He is also the founder of the non-communicable diseases section at the Ministry of Health. He has more than 30 years of experience in public health and community medicine. He was appointed as the Advisor to Her Excellency, The Minister of Public Health at the MOPH. Also, he was the Director of Health Department at the Ministry of Health and the Deputy Director of the Primary Health Care Corporation. Additionally, Dr. Al Mulla held the positions of Chairman of Medical Research and the Director of the Arab Board Community Medicine Program. In recognition of his hard work in the field of tobacco control and prevention across Qatar and the region, he was awarded by the American Cancer Society in 2005 and by the World Health Organization in 2005 and 2017. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on tobacco-related research in renowned academic journals.