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Hanin Odeh is a Jordanian international development consultant and a public health advocate. She has 16+ years of experience working in the development domain leading programs in education, health, social and economic empowerment, and specifically in humanitarian contexts.

She was the former Director General of Royal Health Awareness Society, a non-profit initiative of Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan. RHAS focuses on promoting wellbeing behaviors and healthy lifestyles among children, youth and communities at large. During her tenure at RHAS, Hanin has contributed to the design and implementation to nation-wide programs with UN agencies (WHO, WFP, UNICEF, UNFPA), WDF, USAID, EU, as well as other regional and local partners. She has also led multiple communications and advocacy efforts with ministries of health and education, related to children’s healthy diets, physical activity, tobacco control, child and maternal health, reproductive health, drugs prevention, road safety, and chronic disease prevention at primary health care level, and more recently in national COVID response.

Hanin was the chair of the organizing committee for the “Third Regional Adolescent Health Conference”, and has also been a founding member of the Jordanian as well as the EMRO NCD Alliances.

Hanin is a current Member of the World Heart Federation’s Tobacco Expert Group, and has contributed to a recent published policy brief related to harmful impact of E-cigarettes on Cardio-vascular health.

Prior to her appointment at RHAS in 2015, Hanin worked about 8 years at the King Abdullah II Fund for Development, last role was the Fund’s Programs and Initiatives Manager. She also worked as an Assistant Manager at PwC’s Middle East Public Sector Institute, where she developed and delivered Learning and Development trainings for upskilling public sector leaders across the Middle East.

Hanin holds an MSc. in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics, where she focused her thesis on ‘Host Countries Responses to Refugees Influx: The case of Jordan’. She has extensive experience in nonprofit strategic management, business development, and public private partnerships. She attended an executive program on NGOs management at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a certified Project Management Professional​