Emirati doctor and academic.

She has been the Head of the Testing Track at the COVID-19 Command and Control Centre since 2020, the Astronaut Physician at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre , the Director of the Governance Office at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences since April 2021, and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the College of Medicine at the same university since July 2019.

She has also been a Family Medicine Consultant at United Medical Centre in Dubai since January 2014, a Medical Coordinator at Teladoc Health since February 2018, and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK.

She worked as a flight surgeon at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in 2019, a senior specialist registrar at the Dubai Health Authority between 2015 and 2018, and the head of government health insurance programmes at the same authority between September 2006 and January 2018.

She has many publications in the field of clinical health, and was also a principal investigator in the global study on “The effectiveness of using saliva as an effective alternative to nasal swab for children to detect COVID-19 virus.”

She has experience in clinical practice, healthcare administration, health policy and regulation in both the public and private sectors.

She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health in 2011 from Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, a Diploma in Diabetes Management in 2012 from the United Arab Emirates University, a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2005 from the same university, a Fellowship in Family Medicine in 2011 from the Arab Board of Health Specializations, a Certificate in Informatics, Safety, Quality and Leadership in 2016 from Harvard University, and completed the Influential Leadership Program in 2019 from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development.