Rafia Ghubash

Rafia Obaid Ghubash is a Dubayi psychiatrist and epidemiologist who serves as president of the Arab Network for Women in Science and Technology, and is a former president of the Arabian Gulf University. She is known as a role model of women's empowerment.[1]

Prof.

Rafia Ghubash
Born
رفيعة غباش

Dubai, UAE
NationalityBahraini
CitizenshipUnited Arab Emirates
OccupationProfessor
Medical career
ProfessionPsychiatrist
FieldEpidemiology
InstitutionsArabian Gulf University
Sub-specialtiesEpidemiological psychiatry
ResearchPsychiatry; women's history

Education and career

Ghubash earned a PhD in epidemiological psychiatry from London University in 1992, becoming an assistant professor of psychiatry at UAE University School of Medicine, then newly opened, in Al Ain.[2] She is a practicing psychiatrist.[3]

She was president of the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain during 2000-2009.[4] She is president of the Arab Network for Women in Science and Technology, an organization to both help women scientists attain leadership positions and to attract more women into science.[3]

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

In 2006, Ghubash was nominated to become a councilor for the World Future Council.

In 2012, she founded The Women’s Museum, Bait al Banat (House of Women, in English) in her childhood home in Dubai.[5][6][2]

References
  1. "Dr. Rafia Ghubash". globalthinkersforum.org. Global Thinkers Forum i. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  2. "The Founder". womenmuseumuae.com. YoutubeFacebookTwitter The Women’s Museum at Bait Al Banat. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  3. "Rafia Ghubash - 100 Most Powerful Arabs 2018". Arabian Business. ITP Media. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  4. "Local News Global genetics forum opens". Gulf Daily News. February 7, 2008.
  5. Al Nowais, Shireena. "Class of '71: the first female Emirati psychiatrist who founded museum dedicated to women". www.thenationalnews.com. The National. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  6. Exell, Karen (2016). Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula. Routledge. p. 183. ISBN 9781317279013. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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