Dr. Salih Mahdi Muttalib al-Hasnawi (Arabic: صالح مهدي مطلب الحسناوي) is an Iraqi psychiatrist, professor, public health expert, and politician.
[1] Al-Hasnawi was born in 1960 into a Shia muslim family in the city of Karbala.
[3] In January 2008 he reported the results of the "Iraq Family Health Survey" of 9,345 households across Iraq which was carried out in 2006 and 2007 for the World Health Organization and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
[4][5] It estimated that there had been 151,000 deaths from violence (95% uncertainty range, 104,000 to 223,000) from March 2003 through June 2006.
[12] Al Hasnawi is the first Iraqi and Arab physician to win the Presidential Medal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh, for his vital role in the improvement of mental health in Iraq and the Middle East.