Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari

Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari is a Qatari healthcare management professional. In 2015 she appeared at #20 in the CEO Middle East list of the 100 most powerful Arab women. She had served as Qatar Minister of Public Health from January 2016 until November 2024 and serves on multiple medical boards in Qatar and the United States.

Early life, education and career She studied at Brunel University in the United Kingdom, earning her PhD in healthcare management in 2002. She entered the field of healthcare management in 1996 by joining the Women's Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).

Since 2007, she has maintained her position as a Managing Director of HMC. and 8th among the "100 most powerful businesswomen in the Arab world" 2023.

Current positions Al-Kuwari currently holds the following positions:

Chairperson of the Academic Health System International Advisory Board Chairperson of the Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute International Advisory Board Member of the Board of Regents Governor on the Board of Governors for Sidra Medicine Vice Chair for the Board of the Qatar Precision Medicine Institute Member of Board of Directors of Qatar Foundation for Social Work Member of Qatar Foundation’s Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council Recently, the Joint Committee Meeting on 'Health in All Policies' was participated in by eleven ministries and government entities. Al-Kuwari presided over the meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Public Health headquarters. During this meeting, she encouraged joint participation in order to further the objectives laid out by Qatar's Second National Development Strategy 2018-2022 .

In October 2018 she was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the United States.