Dr. Mohammad Amin Fatemi
Minister of Public Health
Dr. Mohammad Amin Fatemi was born in 1952 in Nangarhar province. In 1970 he graduated from Habibia High School and earned his medical diploma from Nangarhar medical college in 1977. He also participated in an advanced academic program in Bonn, Germany and obtained a certificate from the High Institute of Public Management in Karachi. He also has earned a certificate in health care from the Boston University the United States in 1995.
He has served as a doctor in Badakhshan, teacher in Kabul Public Health Institute and served in numerous capacities during the mujahideen government such as member of the health awareness department, founder and director of the education program of IRC, founder and director of the programs of Afghan resistance groups unity, member of the advisory board of the Health Ministry, deputy minister and Minister of the Public Health Ministry from 1993-1995.
He also served as temporary advisor of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and the Mediterranean countries, permanent advisor of WHO for the eastern Mediterranean countries, was a member of the executive board of World Health Organization, the Board of the Medical Services Development for Afghans, the board of the Women’s hospital for Afghan Refugees. He has also participated in many academic conferences and is the author of "Health Care: The Right and Wrong Use of the Medicines" and "First Aid."
