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Professor Suad Mohamed Sulaiman

Ensuring safe water

rofessor Suad Mohamed Professor Mohamed Sulaiman sat on president of the Sudanese Environment
Sulaiman is a professor of several World Health Organisation advisory Conservation Society for four years, and
parasitology with special committees. member of the board of the National
training skills in scientific She was director of the Medical Biosafety Advisory Committee,
research methodology, ethics in Parasitology Research Project at the Higher Council for Environment,
Presearch, community Khartoum Laboratory. She was a ministry of environment.
development, health and environment, team member in major health She sits on the national
waterborne diseases risks and prevention, projects in Sudan, including the steering committee of the Nile
health and sanitation for community Blue Nile Health Project; the Basin Discourse, Sudan
development, human parasitology surveys, Michigan State Forum; was adviser on health
biological transmission of tropical diseases, University/National Institute of research, UNESCO Chair for
and applied field research on waterborne Health Medical Parasitology Women in Science and
diseases (mainly schistosomiasis and malaria). Research Project; the Institute for Technology, Sudan; and was
She held the posts of assistant dean for Tropical Hygiene, University of chair of the Transboundary
academic affairs at Nile College; academic Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany; Microgrants programme of the Nile
research professor and adviser on health the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Basin Initiative in the Sudan.
issues and coordination, ministry of science Copenhagen, Denmark; and member of the Professor Mohamed Sulaiman has more
and technology; research professor and London Khartoum Bilharzia Control Project than 70 published scientific papers and
director, Tropical Medicine Research in the Gezira, Sudan. supervised the work of more than 50
Institute, National Centre for Research, She taught ethics in research, research postgraduate degrees, and is a referee to
Khartoum, Bilharzia Research Unit, methodology, community medicine, and several scientific journals inland and abroad.
National Health Laboratories; and is medical parasitology to undergraduate and She is on the editorial board of some local
currently a freelance health and postgraduate university students. medical and science journals and member of
environment adviser. Professor Mohamed Sulaiman was vice- the Sudan Editors’ group.
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