Chief, Reference Public Health Laboratories (PHLs)

Chief, National Influenza Center, Public Health Directorate

Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain.

Amjad Ghanem Mohamed is the chief of the Public Health Lab, Kingdom of Bahrain. She directs and supervises all laboratory activities related to communicable diseases, food & water safety, and quality testing. She also serves as the vice-chairman of the National Committee for Health Laboratories and Biosafety. She is a member of several national committees including the higher Committee for pandemics elimination, International Health Regulation (IHR), the National Immunization Committee, and the National Certification Committees (NCCs) for polio, measles, and rubella. She leads the team for the National Genome Project Implantation Plan and supervises the national viral genetic analysis laboratory activities. Amjad is the WHO focal point for Public Health Laboratory activities, National influenza Center and Food Poisoning PULS-NET. She has led several national environmental projects such as, detection of radioactive and mineral pollution in local and imported fish products, and detection of the pesticide residue in food and water in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Kuwait University, and her master’s degree in food microbiology and quality management from Greenwich University.