Dr. Dlovan Muhammad Fatih Jalal is a physician, public health specialist, and senior health-system leader with more than 20 years of experience in public health, community medicine, healthcare administration, and disease prevention. He holds a Doctorate in Public Health, a Fellowship of the Kurdistan Board of Medical Specialties in Community Medicine, and a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Picardie Jules Verne, France.

He currently serves as Director General of Health in Erbil, where he provides strategic leadership for healthcare services, public health programmes, workforce development, quality improvement, emergency preparedness, and evidence-informed policy implementation. Alongside his executive responsibilities, Dr. Jalal is actively involved in postgraduate education, teaching public health, primary healthcare, organisational behaviour, and health administration. He also contributes to the development of future healthcare leaders through academic supervision and professional capacity-building.

His academic and research interests include health-system strengthening, primary healthcare, health policy and governance, disease prevention, cardiovascular risk factors, tobacco control, nutrition, diabetes, health economics, healthcare financing, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and health inequalities. His professional profile combines academic expertise, practical health-system leadership, and a strong commitment to improving population health and the quality and accessibility of healthcare services.