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MEKEI, in conjunction with WASD, has built a strong network of researchers, policy makers, educators, consultants and employers from all parts of the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss current developments and challenges. This directory can be used to help find, support and collaborate with experts from the network. Interested in joining the expert directory? Complete the application form. Please check your details in our directory after 48 hrs and if you can not find your name, please contact the directory coordinator at admin@wasd.org.uk. You can also join the expert directories of our sister organisation: World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and Sudan Knowledge (SK).
prof. W Paul Davies
Deputy Vice Chancellor
Paul Davies is Professor of Agricultural Systems and previously graduated from the universities of Wales; Exeter and East Anglia in the UK with degrees in agriculture; agricultural botany; crop protection and post-harvest biology.…
Dr. Margaret Lawson
Researcher
Dr. Margaret Lawson is a State registered dietician since 1969, MSc in Human Nutrition, and PhD in Clinical Biochemistry (1990). A fellow of the British Dietetic Association in 2001 and A Postgraduate certificate in Allergy was awarded by Southampton University in 2004.…
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Director MEKEI
Allam Ahmed is the Founding President of World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and Founding Editor of all its journals. Allam completed his Ph.D. in Economics (Technology and Knowledge Transfer for Development) at Edinburgh Napier University, UK in two years; MSc/MBA from the Royal Agricultural University, UK (awarded the RAU Scholarship and Prestigious Book Prize for Best MSc/MBA Dissertation) and he is a Fellow and Chartered Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.…
Dr. Isameldin M.H. Izzeldin
Consultant Neurologist & Clinical Neurophysiologist
Dr Isameldin M. H. Izzeldin graduated in 1994 with an MBBS from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He was medically trained in Sudan then Saudi Arabia, where he became Senior Neurology Resident at the Tertiary Neuroscience Center in Riyadh.…
Richard Hutson
Researcher
Richard Hutson has completed a BSc in Human Nutrition from the University of Westminster, London. The work reported in this study is based on research carried out for his final year project as part of the undergraduate study.…
Dr. Claire Robertson
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Claire Robertson has a degree in Applied Human Nutrition (QMC, Edinburgh 1997), PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology (QuB, 2001) and MA Higher Education (UoW, 2012). Following five years post-doctorate experience in cardiovascular epidemiology at Imperial College, she joined the University of Westminster as a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition.…
Regina Papp
Researcher
Regina Papp holds a First Class Honours BSc degree from the University of Westminster. After having worked as a financial analyst for years, her attention turned to health and nutrition. Currently working for Action for Blind People, her focus of research is how nutrition can help prevent or slow sight loss with further interest in how nutrition influences health outcomes and health risks to individuals and communities.…
Dr. Mayada Abuaffan
Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dr. Mayada Abu Affan Graduated from Khartoum Medical School in the Sudan , completed foundation training and the MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Sudan . During her working in obstetrics and gynaecology she became convinced that a combination of population and clinical perspectives are the most powerful approaches to improving health and achieving a bigger impact on health and health service quality, as a resulted she entered the Public Health higher specialist training programme in Scotland and obtained the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2006.…
Kate Goddenand
Lecturer
Kate Godden is a lecturer in the School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster. She is also a food security and nutrition adviser who has specialized in the humanitarian and development sectors since 1990.…
Cathryn Salisbury
Researcher
Cathryn Salisbury has recently graduated with first class BSc (Hons) in Human Nutrition from the University of Westminster. She received a UoW bursary award for her final year project, investigating the impact public health messages have on diet quality and lifestyle choices of women during pregnancy, considering quality and effectiveness in the dissemination of current messages.…
Folashade Alloh
Researcher
Folashade Alloh holds an MSc in Public health and is currently a Postgraduate Researcher at Bournemouth
University. Her research interests are in Type 2 diabetes among African migrants, and she is currently looking at how environment and lifestyle factors in uence the development and management of the condition among the black and ethnic minority population in the UK.
Dr. Om Kurmi
Senior Scientist
Om Kurmi is a Senior Scientist in Respiratory Epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nu eld Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His main research interest is environmental epidemiology of chronic diseases, particularly cardiorespiratory health in low and middle-income countries.…
Prof. Dick Heller
Professor
Prof. Dick Heller is a medical graduate from London University and has worked in the UK, the US and Australia. He retired in 2006 from the post of Professor of Public Health in the University of Manchester, UK, having previously been Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia.…
Dr. Abdeen Mustafa Omer
Associate Researcher
Dr Abdeen Mustafa Omer (BSc, MSc, PhD) is an Associate Researcher at Energy Research Institute. He obtained both his PhD degree in the Built Environment and Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham.…
Jela Webb
Senior Lecturer
Jela Webb is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton Business School. She teaches and supervises at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. Her specialist area is in the field of Information and Knowledge Management. …
Dr. Richard Baines
Principal Lecturer
Research interests encompass two converging themes: agricultural and rural development with special reference to emerging economies and Africa; and, the management of food safety and quality for agricultural production in response to legislation, the food chain and consumers. …