Dr. Khairat Al Habbal

Dr. Khairat Al Habbal is a Specialist in Family Medicine and an advocate for holistic health, committed to empowering individuals to reach their full potential by fostering their physical, mental, and social well-being. Her passion lies in enhancing health systems and strengthening the global health workforce to transform individual and community health. She achieves this by designing impactful community health programs, conducting research, utilizing data to drive evidence-based policy and practice enhancements. The programs she designs integrate her expertise as a family physician, medical educator, global health consultant, and researcher.

Dr. Khairat is Arab board-certified and a graduate of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She has over five years of experience as a family physician at prestigious institutions in Lebanon and more than eight years of experience in medical education, spanning undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently an assistant professor of Family Medicine at Khalifa University’s College of Medicine and Health Sciences, the director of the university’s award-winning Community Health Program (BALSAM), and the course director for medicine and society.

Dr. Khairat also holds a master’s degree in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In the UAE, she is leading the design and implementation of Abu Dhabi’s maternal and infant health monitoring system in partnership with governmental entities. the global health workforce to transform individual and community health by designing impactful community health programs, conducting research and utilising data to drive evidence-based policy and practice enhancements, and building the capacity of the health workforce. The programs she designs combine her expertise as a family physician, a medical educator, a global health consultant and a researcher.

Dr. Khairat is Arab board-certified and a graduate of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She holds more than five years of experience as a family physician at prestigious institutions in Lebanon and more than 8 years of experience in medical education spanning undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Khalifa University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Director of the university’s award-winning Community Health Program- BALSAM, and the course director for Medicine and Society. Her programs advocate for addressing health holistically using the biopsychosocial model and the social determinants of health framework. Dr. Khairat also holds a master’s degree in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and works in global health consultancy with the focus of strengthening health systems through collaboratively designing national plans to upskill the health workforce. In the UAE, she is currently leading the design and implementation of Abu Dhabi’s maternal and infant health monitoring system in partnership with governmental entities.