Professor Randah Hamadeh

Lifetime Achievement Regional Track

Professor Randah Ribhi Hamadeh attained her Ph.D. in Community Medicine from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and both her B.Sc. in Environmental Health and M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She is a Professor of Community Medicine and Consultant at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. Prof. Hamadeh started her professional work as the Assistant Manager at the Office of Professional Standards and Systems Analysis at the Ministry of Health, Bahrain, and her academic career began when she joined the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Arabian Gulf University in 1991. Prof. Hamadeh became a full professor in 2005, the first woman to do so at the university, and held key positions including Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Director of the M.Sc. in Health Policy and Population Studies program. She played a pivotal role in the integration of public health issues into medical curriculum and was instrumental in the design an implementation of graduate health programs. She chaired several strategic and high-level university committees. Prof. Hamadeh 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. She is a member of The Eastern Mediterranean Advisory Committee on Health Research, a commissioner in the Operations Committee of the Lancet Neurology Commission on Stroke in Low and Middle-Income Countries, and a collaborator in the Global Burden of Disease Studies. She also worked as an Advisor to the Assistant Undersecretary for Training and Planning, Ministry of Health, Bahrain on part-time basis. 

Prof. Hamadeh is a member of several professional organizations, societies, and networks in the Eastern Mediterranean region and globally. She is a reviewer for several high-ranking scientific journals and has served on journals’ editorial boards. On the national level, she was an active member of the Bahrain Cancer Society, the Bahrain Antismoking Society, and the National Antismoking Committee for several years. She served as the Vice Chair of the National Committee for Credentials Evaluation, and the Chair of the General Sciences Specializations Subcommittee. Prof. Hamadeh has 209 publications in peer-reviewed journals mostly on cancer, smoking, and noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors in the Arab World, Eastern Mediterranean region, and globally. She has coauthored nine books and book chapters, five on cancer and two on risk factors of noncommunicable diseases. Her master’s thesis on “Space clustering of leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease and other lymphomas in Bahrain” and doctorate dissertation on “The impact of smoking in Bahrain”, and the “Smoking Bibliography in the Eastern Mediterranean Region”, and Cancer and smoking-related publications were the earliest for Bahrain and the region. Prof. Hamadeh has an H-index of 69, one of the measures of the scientific productivity of researchers and has 116,297 citations based on Scopus. 

Notably, Prof. Hamadeh was listed among the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 top 2% scientists in the world by Stanford University. She was ranked based on the AD Scientific Index for World Scientists and University Ranking as the Best Scientist at the Arabian Gulf University for 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and among the top three in Bahrain. 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. She also received Dr. Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa’s Medical Research Award in 2010 and 2011. She was awarded for her effective contribution in antismoking activities by the Ministry of Health in Bahrain in 2010 and was recognized by the Bahrain Antismoking Society in 2014 for being one of its founders. In addition, she was an honoree of HRH Princess Sabeeka Al Khalifa for Bahraini Women Academicians in 2019.