H.E. Fahad Abdulrahman AlJalajel, Minister of Health, member of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, and Chairman of the Transformation Program Committee in the health sector. He is also the Saudi Health Council President, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Food and Drug. He also chairs (28) boards of directors, centers and committees.
AlJalajel, who is currently overseeing the transformation plan in the health sector, managed many important files during his career in a number of prominent locations, the most important of which are the General Authority for Investment (currently the Ministry of Investment), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and Ministry of Health. Among the most prominent of these files is the development of strategies, planning and development.
AlJalajel was educated in Saudi Arabia and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from King Saud University in Riyadh, followed by a Master’s degree in Computer Science from St. Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania, and an Executive Certificate in Leadership and Management from Sloan School of Management- MIT in the USA.
On October 15th, 2021, the honorable Royal Decree was issued appointing him as Minister of Health, in order to lead the development strategies in the Ministry, which resulted in the acceleration of achieving the Ministry's goals. This was preceded by his participation in supervising the development of transformation strategy in the health sector through his work as Deputy Minister of Health for Planning and Development since June 2nd, 2016, as that period culminated in making successive shifts in various fields of health services, including the areas of digital development. In addition to his participation in supervising emergency response plans to Corona pandemic (Covid-19) and vaccine centers, which had a significant impact on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia achieving first levels in the Group of Twenty, and achieving the second rank in the pandemic response index, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was considered a symbol of success in Confronting the pandemic and protecting health of the citizen, resident and visitor are among its highest priorities.
AlJalajel is also supervising and following up on the achievement of the qualitative and historical leap in health services represented in transformation of the institutional work in the Ministry after approval of the Council of Ministers in June 2022 to establish the Health Holding Company to provide health services through health clusters and establishment of the National Health Insurance Center to finance these services. This aims to separate the orgasnizer from the service provider, which contributes to achieving higher effectiveness and efficiency and meeting the needs of citizens, residents and visitors more, and this comes to continue working on what these decisions reflect as one of the regular bases for implementing the transformation strategy in the Ministry of Health.
In addition, AlJalajel participated in the work of many higher or ministerial councils and committees, as well as some national bodies working to promote community health, prevention and early detection of diseases and health risks, including: