Dr. Farida Al Hosani, the official spokesman for the health sector in the UAE, urged Emirati and Arab youth to show a positive spirit and benefit from the challenges that the world is going through as a result of the emerging Corona virus as opportunities that can be developed and discover the size of their readiness to face them.
This came during a dialogue organized by “Sharjah Women’s Sajaya” - affiliated with the Quarter-Century Foundation for the Industry of Leaders and Innovators - yesterday evening in a visual call at a distance within the “Meet with Inspiring” event that it organizes with the aim of providing inspirational models from the Emirati society to its members and to new generations of adolescents and youth and the opportunity They have to talk to her and learn about the challenges and difficulties that faced their path.

Al-Hosani said that the new Corona virus challenged the imposition of an exceptional circumstance, but in return for it, had it not been for this circumstance, we would have had a remote study experience so quickly, and had it not been for this challenge, we would have had many different and unique experiences ... as young people should take advantage of these situations and take advantage of times to acquire new skills and hobbies .

Al-Hosani talked during the meeting, which was attended by more than 300 young men and women and a number of media professionals from inside and outside the country, about her personal experience as an official spokesman for the state's health sector in light of the current situation and stopped at her career and years of study that she went through along with her family life and her role as a mother.

At the beginning of the meeting, I thanked His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and his wife, Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, President of the Quarter-Century Foundation for Leaders and Innovators, for their keenness and continuous support for all initiatives that aim to embrace and raise children and young people and create a positive environment that invests their energies and abilities And it helps them to adopt important life skills.

Speaking about her work as an official speaker on the health sector ... Al Hosani said: "This is a great honor for me from the leadership of the UAE and from officials in the health sector, despite my previous media participation, but this experience was different. In this current situation, I speak with all groups of Emirati society, so The information should be presented in an easy and simple way to reach all viewers and I hope that I succeeded in this. "

She called on the youth to support the community through volunteering in various sectors and work to spread awareness among its members based on knowledge and science and not through what is circulated on social networking sites from unreliable information source ... indicating the role of youth in communicating the correct information and supporting health practices Sound in society.

On the importance of working with the team spirit .. Al-Hosani said: "I believe that a person as a person cannot succeed alone, no matter how distinguished. Working within one team is a necessity. Although personal skills are useful, but they cannot enrich the person and the leader from his work with the team, our role as leaders is to work out The energies that exist within the team members and we achieve complementarity between them to reach impressive results and very successful. "

She talked about her academic studies, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Medicine and General Surgery at Emirates University in 2003 and obtained a master’s degree in public health in 2011 from Johns Hopkins University in the United States and in 2017 she obtained a diploma in government innovation expert from the “Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Governmental Innovation” University of Cambridge, UK, PhD in Public Health and Health Policy 2018 from Johns Hopkins University.

She pointed out that the balance between her masters and doctorate studies and her work in the government side in addition to being a wife and mother of four posed a great challenge for her .. She explained that she succeeded in achieving this budget by arranging priorities and organizing work time and commitment to plans without neglecting or laziness.

She expressed her pride in being part of the first line of defense in the health sector and the fact that she is an Emirati woman working in the scientific side ... stressing that she considers all that she achieved as a result of the state’s investment in its children and harnessing all capabilities to educate and develop them and has charted the path of this investment in the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan - may God rest his soul - will remain an example and an example in his keenness to build, educate and educate the human being.

For her part, Sheikha Aisha Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Women’s Attitudes, thanked Dr. Farida Al Hosani for her presence in this inspiring session, her participation in many of her life and practical stations, and her export of a successful new and influential image of Emirati women to inspire many girls in Sajaya and the Emirates.