Heba Alkarimi

Dr. Heba Alkarimi is a Consultant Public Health Dentist at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health and an MSc in Dental Public Health from University College London. She leads the Child Oral Health Initiative (COHI), Saudi Arabia's first e‑referral‑based preventive pediatric dental program. COHI won first place in the Minister of Health Volunteer Award and was published in BMJ Open Quality (2025). Her work spans oral health integration into primary care, digital health, quality improvement and health inequalities, with publications in Pediatrics and BMC Public Health.