Dr. Hiba Boujnah

Dr Hiba Boujnah is a global health strategist, policy leader, and former African diplomat with experience across multilateral, continental, governmental, and research institutions. She is Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional, Integrative and Preventive Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She led the WHO designation process, establishing the first WHO Collaborating Centre at Charité and the first under the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre. Her current work focuses on strengthening the evidence, policy frameworks, and international partnerships required for the safe and effective integration of traditional medicine into health systems. Dr Boujnah has held strategic roles with WHO, Africa CDC, the African Union Commission, the US CDC, and The Carter Center. She was the first senior consultant seconded from WHO to the African Union Commission. Her work has covered health diplomacy, health security, pandemic response, vaccine equity, neglected tropical diseases, immunization, and health-system resilience. Across these fields, her focus has remained consistent: understanding the policy and institutional conditions that enable scientific evidence to inform decisions and translate into action. Her publications and policy contributions address African health diplomacy, the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus, immunization, Indigenous knowledge, planetary health, and evidence-informed traditional medicine. A dentist by training, Dr Boujnah is a Fulbright Scholar with an MPH in Management and Policy and an Executive Master’s in Global Public Diplomacy and Sustainable Development. She speaks Arabic, French, English, Spanish, and German.