Dr. Petra Khoury
Director of Health and Care department, IFRC
Day 3 - Friday October 4th 2024 | 1:00pm
Session 6: Closing Gaps in Global Health
Dr. Petra Khoury, serving as the Director of Health and Care department for the IFRC, is a national of both Lebanon and the United States, with significant professional experience from both countries. Most recently, she led the national COVID-19 response and vaccination plan in Lebanon and was appointed as the Chair for both national COVID-19 Response and Vaccination Executive Committees. In this capacity, she developed and executed the operational response and preparedness plan as well as vaccination roll-out plan and became the nation's scientific spokesperson on COVID-19 related matters, serving as the Public Health Advisor to the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Prior to her leadership role in the national COVID-19 response in Lebanon, Petra was Chief Quality and Compliance Officer in the Executive Leadership Team at AUBMC. In this role, she had oversight over compliance, quality, safety, risk management, medico-legal, Joint Commission accreditations and regulatory compliance. She also worked on Re-engineering the Delivery of Healthcare at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre (AUBMC) thru implementation of electronic health records (Epic) and automation systems.
Her career started in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital as an infectious disease specialist developing antimicrobial stewardship program, providing patient care, and leading internal medicine pharmacy clinical service. Petra holds a doctorate degree in Pharmacy from Lebanese American University in Lebanon. She trained at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A, and specialized in infectious diseases. She also earned a Post-graduate certificate in Quality, Safety, Leadership, and Informatics from Harvard Medical School. She is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.