Profile

Prof. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar

Assistant for Institutional Reform, Political Communication, Parliamentary Affairs and Media Official Spokesperson
Ministry of Health and Population Arab Republic of Egypt

Prof. Hossam Abdelghaffar is an Egyptian physician and academic specialising in audiology and balance (audio-vestibular) medicine, and a senior official of Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP). He serves as Assistant Minister for Institutional Development, Political Communication, Parliamentary Affairs and Media, and has been the Ministry’s Official Spokesperson since November 2021. His career combines more than two decades of academic medicine with senior leadership of university hospitals and of the national councils that govern them — the Supreme Council of University Hospitals and the Supreme Council of Universities — together with government communication roles at the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. He also writes the health column “Nabd Al-Seha” (Pulse of Health) in Akhbar Al-Youm.