{"id":46,"date":"2025-06-26T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/careers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:32:14","slug":"technical-advisor-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/technical-advisor-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Advisor Health Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Prof. Dr. Ashraf Hatem
Member of Parliament
Head of the Health Affairs Committee
Former Minister of Health and Population
Republic of Egypt

Technical Advisor - Health Sciences
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Prof. Hatem<\/strong> is a Member of Parliament and head of the Health Affairs committee in the House of Representatives.<\/p>

He was formerly Egypt\u2019s Minister of Health and Population in 2011 and served as a Counselor of the American University in Cairo (AUC) from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>

He was also the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Universities in Egypt (SCU) from 2012 to 2017.As the former Counselor of AUC, Professor Hatem was in charge of the main liaison between the Egyptian authorities and AUC.Professor Hatem worked to develop good relations with the Supreme Council of Universities and to facilitate the implementation of the accreditation processfor all academic degrees.He enhanced contacts with the national universities to encourage the engagement and collaboration between them and AUC.
During his role as a Secretary General for the SCU, Professor Hatem led a reform team that worked with other regulatory bodies and universities to upgrade and reform the higher education system via initiating an independent body for its financing and regulation in the name of HERFA (the Higher Education Regulatory and Funding Agency).<\/p>

He was a member of the Supreme Council of the Pre-University Education, which initiated the reform plan for Egypt\u2019s new system of school education.
Professor Hatem is a member of the Higher Committee on Viruses at the Supreme Council of University Hospitals and the Higher Committee on Grievances at the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Children\u2019s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 and the University of Hertfordshire in Egypt.
He was formerly a Consultant to the Minister of Higher Education for universities’ hospitals.<\/p>

Professor Hatem was also a Consultant to the Minister of Health in the area of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. He has been chairing the Board of the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt since 2013.Professor Hatem was the Director General of Cairo University Hospitals (2005-2011).<\/p>

He was the Director of the Mubarak-Kohl Institute of Nursing.He is a member of numerous professional societies and is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine.Professor Ashraf Hatem acts as a reviewer for Chest in the official journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
He is a Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at Kasr Al Aini Faculty of Medicine in Cairo University and is a holder of MD degree in Chest Diseases, M. Sc. in CHEST and MB, Bch from Cairo
University Egypt and earned his E.C.F.M.G. from the USA.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Dr. Ashraf Hatem Member of Parliament Head of the Health Affairs Committee Former Minister of Health and Population Republic of EgyptTechnical Advisor – Health Sciences University of Gitwe Prof. Hatem is a Member of Parliament and head of the Health Affairs committee in the House of Representatives. He was formerly Egypt\u2019s Minister of Health and Population in 2011 and served as a Counselor of the American University in Cairo (AUC) from 2017 to 2021. He was also the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Universities in Egypt (SCU) from 2012 to 2017.As the former Counselor of AUC, Professor Hatem was in charge of the main liaison between the Egyptian authorities and AUC.Professor Hatem worked to develop good relations with the Supreme Council of Universities and to facilitate the implementation of the accreditation processfor all academic degrees.He enhanced contacts with the national universities to encourage the engagement and collaboration between them and AUC. During his role as a Secretary General for the SCU, Professor Hatem led a reform team that worked with other regulatory bodies and universities to upgrade and reform the higher education system via initiating an independent body for its financing and regulation in the name of HERFA (the Higher Education Regulatory and Funding Agency). He was a member of the Supreme Council of the Pre-University Education, which initiated the reform plan for Egypt\u2019s new system of school education. Professor Hatem is a member of the Higher Committee on Viruses at the Supreme Council of University Hospitals and the Higher Committee on Grievances at the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Children\u2019s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 and the University of Hertfordshire in Egypt. He was formerly a Consultant to the Minister of Higher Education for universities’ hospitals. Professor Hatem was also a Consultant to the Minister of Health in the area of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. He has been chairing the Board of the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt since 2013.Professor Hatem was the Director General of Cairo University Hospitals (2005-2011). He was the Director of the Mubarak-Kohl Institute of Nursing.He is a member of numerous professional societies and is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine.Professor Ashraf Hatem acts as a reviewer for Chest in the official journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at Kasr Al Aini Faculty of Medicine in Cairo University and is a holder of MD degree in Chest Diseases, M. Sc. in CHEST and MB, Bch from Cairo University Egypt and earned his E.C.F.M.G. from the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":110,"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uog.ac.rw\/international\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}