Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari is the

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ian Minister of Health. He was appointed as minister on 29 March 2021.

Education

Hawari holds a bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Jordan (1992) and completed an Internal Medicine Residency (1996) and a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship at the University at Buffalo (1997) and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at

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(2000).

Career

From 2000 until 2004, Al-Hawari worked as a Senior Staff Fellow at the American

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in Bethesda in the United States. In 2007, Al-Hawari was the chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Scientific Research at

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. In 2008, he became director of the Smoking Cessation Program at King Hussein Cancer Center. Additionally, he was director of the Respiratory therapist, Respiratory Therapy Unit and Pulmonary Function Laboratory from 2004 until 2021, head of the Department of Chest Diseases and Intensive Care from 2010 until 2018, and a member of the Executive Board at King Hussein Cancer Center from 2013 until 2021. From 2018 until 2021, Al-Hawari served as the head of the Cancer Control Office. In 2020, he was appointed head of the National Center for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases. Since 29 March 2021, Al-Hawari has been Minister of Health.

References

Living people 21st-century Jordanian politicians Government ministers of Jordan Health ministers of Jordan University at Buffalo School of Medicine alumni University of California, Irvine alumni University of Jordan alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Jordan-politician-stub