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 was appointed as Qatar Minister of Public Health in January 2016 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.

Al Kuwari has worked for the WHO, Reuters and as a freelance health reporter. 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.

Forbes ranked Al Kuwari 2nd among Middle East's "Top 50 Healthcare Leaders 2022" 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
 * Co-chairperson of the Joint Advisory Board of Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
 * 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

As the Minister of Qatar's Public health, Al Kuwari is responsible for the functions of the Ministry of Health. This includes overseeing all programs in the public and private sectors. She works to ensure the efficiency of the service providers and public health service programs, and the growth of Qatar's National Health and Public Health Strategies. 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.