Who’s Who: Dr. Lubna Al-Ansary, consultant family physician at King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh

Who’s Who: Dr. Lubna Al-Ansary, consultant family physician at King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh

Dr. Lubna Al-Ansary is a consultant family physician at King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh, where she is also professor at the university’s College of Medicine at the department of family and community medicine. With over 20 years of experience in the medical field, she participated in founding the National Society for Human Rights in 2004 and the National Family Safety Program in 2006 in Saudi Arabia. She was assistant director general for health metrics and measurement at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva from November 2017 to April 2019 as the first Arab woman (and the first Saudi citizen) to serve in this position. Her mission during that period was to empower member states to use data and research evidence in policymaking to achieve universal health coverage. Al-Ansary is a pioneer of family medicine, evidence-based healthcare and knowledge translation in Saudi Arabia and the wider region. She has collaborated with WHO’s regional office in the Eastern Mediterranean in various projects. She established and supervised the Bahamdan Research Chair for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation at King Saud University from 2008-2018. From 2010 to 2018, she was the chairperson of the clinical practice guidelines committee for university hospitals