Dr. Abdullah Mufarrih Assiri has been the assistant deputy minister for preventive health since 2013. He is currently the representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is a member of the IHR Emergency Committee concerning Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). In a recent briefing on the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Assiri highlighted various studies and clinical trials being conducted in th...
