Fatima Al Slail

Dr Fatima Al Slail is currently the Director of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, and the Director of Cardiovascular Prevention and Control Program in the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia.

She is the In-country Director of King Abdullah Fellowship Program-Emory University for Public Health.

Dr Al Slail has an MD with a Master Degree of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. She is also certified as a project management professional.

Her major research interests are: Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, preventive medicine, health literacy, noncommunicable disease prevention, communicable diseases and influenzas vaccine.

She is a Member of The Saudi National Diabetes Control Committee and the Scientific Committee in the Directory of the Noncommunicable Disease, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia,  and a member of The American Diabetes Association and the American Public Health Association.

She is also a board member of MENA Influenza Stakeholders Network.