Prof. Randah Ribhi Hamadeh
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Professor Randah Ribhi Hamadeh joined the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) in 1991. She held key positions at the university including Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research; Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine; and Director of the MSc in Health Policy and Population Studies program. She has served as an expert, advisor, consultant, and focal person in many highly considered institutions such as the World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Bahrain, and several academic institutions. Prof. Hamadeh has 209 publications in peer reviewed journals. She was listed among the top 2% scientists in the World by Stanford University and was ranked as the Best Scientist at AGU based on the AD Scientific Index for World Scientists and University Rankings. Prof. Hamadeh received the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the field of Cancer in 2023.
- DPhil, Community Medicine: University of Oxford, UK,1988.
- MSc, Epidemiology: American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1977.
- BSc, Environmental Health: American University of Beirut, Lebanon,1975.
- Cancer, tobacco smoking, noncommunicable diseases mental health, road traffic accidents, environmental health, climate change, burden of diseases, and health policy.
- Research skills, critical thinking and creative thinking.
- Cancer, tobacco smoking and mental health
- Hamadeh RR, Abuelaish I, Yousufzai SJ, AlShammari YAT, Ahmed YE., Jahrami HA. Knowledge and attitudes of medical students toward death: A cross-sectional comparative study between an Arab and a Western University. BMC Psychology.2024. 12 (133). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01616-w.
- Hamadeh RR, Jahrami H, Nazzal K. Cancer research in Arab world. In: Al-Shamsi HO, Abu-Gheida IH, Iqbal F, Al-Awadhi A (ed.) Cancer in the Arab world. Springer. 2022: Pp395-409. ISBBN: 981-16-7945-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7945-2
- Hamadeh RR, Ahmed J, Al-Kawari M, Bucheeri S. Quit tobacco clinics in Bahrain: Smoking cessation rates and patient satisfaction. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 2017; 15:7. doi: 10.1186/s12971-017-0115-1.
- Hamadeh RR, Borgan S, Khabsa J, Sibai AM. Tobacco research in the Eastern Mediterranean region: A scoping review of published studies from seven countries. Journal of Community Health; 2021. 46,225-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00850-8
- Hamadeh RR, Abulfatih NM, Fekri MA, Al-Mehza H. Epidemiology of female breast cancer among the Bahraini population: Bahrain Cancer Registry data. Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal. 2014; 14 (2): e176-182.