UAE: Abu Dhabi

Emergency preparedness is an important pillar of the Health Authority - Abu Dhabi’s (HAAD)’s midterm strategy, which entails expanding both emergency service provision and emergency medicine, in addition to formulating new disaster response plans aimed at containing potential disease outbreaks and effectively managing a mass-casualty incident...

In the midst of an ongoing transformation that has seen patient outcomes and specialty care offerings significantly improve, Abu Dhabi’s health sector is poised to continue expanding rapidly, driven by growth in private sector investment. The health authority in Abu Dhabi continues to implement sector reforms, with a new seven-point health...

Improvement to the continuum of care is one of the main areas of focus for the Health Authority - Abu Dhabi (HAAD) in its seven-point strategy. Fresh efforts to reduce existing capacity gaps in health care provision through the expansion of specialty care services is expected to transform the emirate’s already dynamic health sector.

As Abu Dhabi moves to diversify its economy and develop knowledge-based industries that are reliant on a highly trained workforce, education stakeholders have moved to begin career development at the secondary school level. Local English-language daily The National reported in March 2015 that the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)...

With 2015 declared a “Year of Innovation” by the federal government, public and private stakeholders in the emirate have increasingly focused on post-graduate education, particularly research and development (R&D) activities at the PhD level. Both private and government-funded universities have actively sought to expand their PhD offerings...