HE Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, PhD

Minister of Public Health Managing Director, Hamad Medical Corporation Her Excellency Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari was appointed Minister of Public Health in January 2016. Under her leadership Qatar’s health system successfully managed the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic with Qatar having one of the lowest case fatality rates in the world all while hosting a successful FIFA World Cup 2022 and achieving over 90% of its National Health Strategy 2018-2022 goals and targets. She is also the Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) since 2007. Under her leadership HMC transformed into an integrated academic health system which achieved numerous international accreditations and awards. Dr. Hanan chairs the Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute Advisory Board and Co-Chairs the Joint Advisory Board of Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar (WCMC-Q). During the COVID-19 pandemic, she chaired the National COVID-19 Committee. Dr Hanan is also member of the Board of the Qatar Precision Health Institute (QPHI), Sidra Medicine’s Board of Governors, Qatar University’s Board of Regents, and Qatar Foundation’s Research, Development & Innovation Council. At the international level, Dr. Hanan is a member of the World Health Organization’s Executive Board, High-Level Ministerial Group on the Control of Tobacco & Emerging Tobacco and Nicotine Products in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks. Dr. Hanan holds a PhD in Healthcare Management from Brunel University in the UK in 2002. She has published academic papers and received several awards in recognition of her achievements in the health care industry. In 2018 Dr. Hanan was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of health and in 2022 was awarded the WHO Director General’s Health Champions award in recognition of outstanding action and advocacy in global health promotion and security. Recently in 2024, Dr. Hanan was honoured with the Best Minister Award at the World Governments Summit for her transformative leadership in public health and long record of accomplishments that align closely with the award’s focus areas of socio-economic impact, innovation, resilience, future-readiness, good governance and integrity.