Dubai designated as AAHCI Regional Office for MENA region

Dubai designated as AAHCI Regional Office for MENA region

DUBAI - The Alliance of Academic Health Centres International (AAHCI) has announced designating the Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) as the AAHCI Regional Office for The Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) for two years beginning 1st July, 2023.

The American University of Beirut Medical Centre will remain the AAHCI MENA Regional Office host until June 2023.

Professor Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, AAHCI MENA Regional Ambassador and Chief Academic Officer of the Dubai Academic Health Corporation (DAHC), said that MBRU's designation as the regional centre for academic health is a key milestone in the journey as Dubai's First Academic Health System with a mission to impact lives and shape the future of health through the integration of care, learning, and discovery.

MBRU has been a member of AAHCI since 2021 and hosted its latest regional meeting in October 2022 under the theme, Transforming Academic Health Centres: Innovation and Resilience.

As the new AAHCI Regional Office, MBRU plans to forge a coordinated approach aimed at fostering effective solutions in five areas: Evolving Clinical Care: transforming the patient experience, Investment in Biomedical Research, Resilience of Academic Health Centres, Adaptations in Health Professions and Medical Education, and Partnerships and Community Outreach.

"Improvements in healthcare