Rafia Ghubash

Rafia Obaid Ghubash is president of the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain.^[1] She is also President of the Arab Network for Women in Science and Technology, a network to help women scientists attain leadership positions and to attract more women into science.

Rafia takes a strong interest in the education of Arab women, receiving an award for “Middle East Women's Educational Achievement” in 2002.

Rafia studied a Bachelor of Medicine at Cairo University and went on to receive a Ph.D. in community and epidemiological psychiatry at the University of London.

She is a practicing psychiatrist and she held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Services at United Arab Emirates University until 2001. She has written extensively on psychiatry and received the award of "Excellence Physicians" in 2004.

In 2006 Rafia Ghubash was nominated to become a councillor for the World Future Council.

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External links

• Gulf University, Bahrain