Dr. Mohammed Alhajji, Director of Behavioral Insights with Saudi Ministry of Health Joins The 966 to talk about his career and journey as a Saudi student in the USA

The 966 welcomes onto the show Dr. Mohammed Alhajji, Director of the Behavioral Insights and Nudge Unit at Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, and co-founder of SaudiGenome, onto the program to discuss his journey as a Saudi student in the United States for 15 years and his work now in Saudi Arabia for the ministry.

Dr. Alhajji was born in a small town in Saudi Arabia, but because of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program that sent thousands of qualified young Saudis (and their families) abroad for higher education, he was given the opportunity to study in the United States and made the most of that opportunity, obtaining a PhD and a MPH before returning to the Kingdom to work for the Ministry of Health and running a genetics research company.

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Dr. Mohammed Alhajji is director of the Behavioral Insights & Nudge Unit at the Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia since November 2020 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he develops and implements. He also is co-founder of SaudiGenome, an innovative social entrepreneurship startup in Saudi Arabia to provide genetic testing at low costs with the goal of reducing prevalence of hereditary diseases in the nation.