Dr. Fauziah Hasan, Malaysia
Dr. Fauziah Hasan received her MBBS from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 1982 and is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (United Kingdom). She also serves as a consultant at the Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. Dr Fauziah has been very active in humanitarian activities, firstly with the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (MERCY Malaysia) where she served as Treasurer (2000-2006) and participated in missions to Kosovo (1999), Maluku Indonesia (2000), Afghanistan (2001,2002,2003), Aceh (2005), Pakistan (2005) and Gaza (2009).
She was then active in Aqsa Syarif, a Malaysian humanitarian NGO in support of the Palestinians, which in 2015 became an agency under the umbrella of Humanitarian Care Malaysia (MyCARE). She was Deputy Chairperson of Aqsa Syarif from 2010 and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of MyCARE. Since 2011 she has also been the Advisor of Rose2Rose (R2R), another agency of MyCARE, focusing on empowering women and children. She has led its campaign to care for the many unfortunate women and children in Palestine, Syria and Rohingya, which included another mission to Gaza in 2012. She is married with three children and six grandchildren.