Dr. Hassan Farhat — CBRN preparedness, disaster research and patient safety | ARETION Senior Advisor
Dr. Hassan Farhat — Senior Advisor, ARETION Consulting
Dr. Hassan Farhat is a Senior Advisor at ARETION, specialising in clinical research services. They advise on CBRN and mass-casualty preparedness, patient safety and risk management, and health research and biostatistics. Book a consultation with Dr. Hassan Farhat directly on platform.aretion.org.
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Dr. Hassan Farhat advises ARETION clients where emergency preparedness meets evidence. He brings sixteen years of operational disaster and prehospital work, two doctorates — one on health-sector preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) mass-casualty incidents across the Middle East and North Africa — and a research method that pairs biostatistics with artificial intelligence. Clients engage him to test whether a plan will hold, to measure what a service is actually delivering, and to turn data into decisions.
What does Dr. Hassan Farhat help clients with?
The work they take on as a Senior Advisor at ARETION.
Assessing a hospital's or an ambulance service's readiness for CBRN and hazardous-material incidents, and closing the gaps
Medical planning and command structure for mass gatherings and major sporting events
Designing CBRN, hazmat and major-incident training, drills and after-action reviews
Patient-safety and risk-management systems: incident reporting, root-cause analysis and quality-improvement programmes
Research design, biostatistics and machine-learning analysis for health-service data, through to a publishable manuscript
Expert-consensus studies (Delphi) and evidence reviews to ground a policy or a preparedness framework
Dr. Hassan Farhat's portfolio
What each area of advice rests on: appointments, published work and recognition.
CBRN and mass-casualty preparedness
Doctoral thesis on health-sector preparedness for CBRN mass-casualty incidents across the Middle East and North Africa — awarded first prize for a doctoral thesis in 2024. Previously led a 30-strong CBRN-E response team for a national ambulance service (2015–2019).
Major-event medical command
Prehospital tactical and operations leader for the FIFA World Cup 2022, the AFC Asian Cup 2023 and the World Aquatics World Cup, coordinating prehospital teams across multiple venues.
National emergency coordination
National emergency preparedness and response coordinator at a Ministry of Health strategic operations centre covering 108 emergency departments (2010–2014), including a World Health Organization deployment to refugee camps on the Tunisia–Libya border.
Patient safety and quality improvement
Manages quality, patient safety and risk management for a major-incident and ambulance group since 2019. First award across all categories at the Qatar Summit for Healthcare Risk Management 2023; certified in Enterprise Risk Management (ASHRM).
Research, biostatistics and AI analysis
A second doctorate in biostatistics in emergency medicine, an MSc in health statistics and data analysis, and a postgraduate diploma in AI and machine learning (natural language processing). Author or co-author of 47 scholarly works; peer reviewer for 12 journals including PLOS One, BMC Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
Humanitarian and international standards
Assessed deployable for humanitarian missions through the WHO Public Health Pre-Deployment Training; trained in the WHO Emergency Response Framework, MIMMS and NFPA 472 hazardous-materials response.
Qualifications
As recorded in the firm's advisor directory and maintained by the advisor.
Can Dr. Hassan Farhat assess our hospital's readiness for a chemical or CBRN incident?
Yes. CBRN preparedness is the subject of his award-winning doctorate and of four years leading a CBRN-E response team. An ARETION engagement typically reviews the plan, the decontamination and triage pathway, staff readiness and the training cycle, and returns a written gap analysis with priorities.
We are planning medical cover for a large event. Can he help?
Yes. He served as prehospital tactical and operations leader at the FIFA World Cup 2022 and the AFC Asian Cup 2023. He can review your medical plan, command structure, staffing distribution and escalation routes before the event.
Can he help us analyse our data and publish the results?
Yes. He holds a doctorate in biostatistics and a postgraduate diploma in AI and machine learning, has authored or co-authored 47 scholarly works, and reviews for 12 journals. Sessions cover study design, statistical and machine-learning analysis, and preparing a manuscript and the response to reviewers.
Does he advise on patient safety and incident reporting?
Yes. He has managed quality, patient safety and risk management for an emergency services group since 2019, and his lean redesign of an incident-reporting system was recognised at the Middle East Quality and Patient Safety Forum 2023.
How do I book a consultation with Dr. Hassan Farhat?
On the ARETION platform at platform.aretion.org: open the Advisors page, choose Dr. Hassan Farhat, pick an available date and time, and confirm. The session link and confirmation arrive by email, and written advice follows on the firm's letterhead.
Can I consult Dr. Hassan Farhat online?
Yes. Available formats: Online, over Zoom; Document review and evaluation. Online sessions run over Zoom from anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf, in Arabic or English.
What can Dr. Hassan Farhat help with?
Dr. Hassan Farhat is a Senior Advisor at ARETION, specialising in clinical research services. The problems clients typically bring to this discipline, and the advisor's own areas of expertise, are set out on this page. To book: https://platform.aretion.org.
Can I reschedule a session?
Yes, free of charge: immediately before the session starts, and with the advisor's approval after it has started.
Areas of expertise
The subjects this advisor takes work in, in their own words.
CBRN preparedness and response
disaster medicine
Artificial Intelligence
Anlysis
emergency medical services
patient safety
risk management
healthcare quality improvement
health statistics and data analytics
AI analysis
machine learning
natural language processing (NLP)
research and manuscript development
Epidemiology
Disaster Management
How an engagement runs
Discipline
Clinical Research Services
Formats
Online, over Zoom · Document review and evaluation
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