Mohamed Bin Hamad Al-Thani, MD
Sheikh Mohamed Bin Hamad Al Thani is currently the Director of the Public Health Department in the Ministry of Public Health. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar and at Qatar University.
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 over 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.