Dubai Medical University · Quality Assurance & Institutional Effectiveness

Sustainability Reports 2025

Dubai Medical University’s reporting against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — the teaching, research, partnerships and community work behind each Goal.

Reports (17)

• SDG 01 – No Poverty 2025
  SDG 01

  In 2025 DMU worked against poverty through food and clothing drives for labourers, orphans and families in Gaza, free health screening for people of determination, and AED 7.8 million of scholarships and discounts that keep a health-professions degree within reach.

• SDG 02 – Zero Hunger 2025
  SDG 02

  DMU addressed hunger in 2025 through food packing for labour camps and for Gaza, nutrition education in schools and the community, and research on diet, functional foods and the value of medical nutrition.

• SDG 03 – Good Health and Well-being 2025
  SDG 03

  Health is DMU's mission. In 2025 its students ran more than 60 community events — screening, awareness and first aid in schools, malls, hospitals and clubs — and its researchers published 159 Scopus-indexed papers.

• SDG 04 – Quality Education 2025
  SDG 04

  DMU grew to 828 students in 2025/26, launched a Master's in Health Professions Education, began UK QAA institutional accreditation and opened its training to the wider profession through CPD, preceptor programmes and free school outreach.

• SDG 05 – Gender Equality 2025
  SDG 05

  Founded to educate women in medicine and pharmacy, DMU enrolled 825 women among its 828 students in 2025/26. Its 2025 work for women included a student Women's Health & Empowerment Club, women's health campaigns in schools and full scholarships for Emirati women.

• SDG 06 – Clean Water and Sanitation 2025
  SDG 06

  DMU provides free filtered drinking water across campus and has made reducing water use one of its five sustainability goals. In 2025 its students taught hand hygiene in schools and proposed a national solution to pharmaceutical waste in water.

• SDG 07 – Affordable and Clean Energy 2025
  SDG 07

  Reducing energy use is one of DMU's five sustainability goals. In 2025 DMU taught energy and climate literacy through its sustainability courses and published research on energy-efficient LED lighting for food production.

• SDG 08 – Decent Work and Economic Growth 2025
  SDG 08

  DMU prepares graduates for licensed employment and supports Emiratisation in health. In 2025 it signed an agreement with Nafis, ran licensing and career sessions, and placed students in training with hospitals, industry and government.

• SDG 09 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 2025
  SDG 09

  In 2025 DMU opened a sterile compounding laboratory, set up the UAE's first Department of Integrative Medicine, registered 82 research projects and saw its students win national innovation prizes for AI health apps.

• SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities 2025
  SDG 10

  DMU's 828 students come from 55 countries. In 2025 it extended scholarships to 386 students, adapted its campus for students of determination and took its health students to people of determination, older people and orphans.

• SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities 2025
  SDG 11

  DMU offers on-campus housing, shared transport, green space and public access to its hospital and events. In 2025 its students trained as national emergency volunteers and joined Dubai's community fitness and heritage events.

• SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production 2025
  SDG 12

  DMU teaches responsible use of medicines and materials. In 2025 its pharmacy students ran Green February on safe medicine disposal, reached the national Pitch@Gov finals with a pharmaceutical-waste solution, and its researchers published on eco-friendly medicines.

• SDG 13 – Climate Action 2025
  SDG 13

  DMU launched its sustainability programme with a tree-planting event in June 2025, teaches climate and environmental health in three courses, and trains students to respond to heat and emergencies.

• SDG 15 – Life on Land 2025
  SDG 15

  Through its “Plant a Ghaf” project with Goumbook, DMU plants native trees that need little water; in 2025 it launched its sustainability programme with a native-seedling planting and used its greenhouse for plant-based teaching.

• SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 2025
  SDG 16

  In 2025 DMU put its policies online for anyone to read, began UK QAA accreditation, held open Student Council elections (32 candidates for 13 seats) and adopted an AI Usage policy and AI governance framework.

• SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals 2025
  SDG 17

  QA Hub records 71 partnership agreements in force for DMU in 2025, 19 of them signed that year — among them AIIMS New Delhi, University College Dublin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Nafis.

• Sustainability Education and Literacy 2025
  Across the Goals

  DMU teaches sustainability in three credit-bearing courses across Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, and in 2025 its students carried that learning into schools, pharmacies and national competitions.