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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).
Andi Gaywood
Researcher
Andi Gaywood been employed as a Family Cards Worker and Social Work Instructor he went on to work in the field of IT and banking. During this time he developed a keen interest in nutrition, obesity and healthy living which motivated him to an undertaking and achieving first-class honour in a human nutrition degree.…
Dr. Ishraqa M.A. Awad
Consultant
Ishraqa M.A. Awad studied Medicine at the University of Khartoum and an MPH from Nottingham University. She is a Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health and worked as a Consultant Regional Epidemiologist with the Health Protection Agency and Consultant in Public Health with Sandwell Primary Care Trust, UK.…
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. Sundus Tewfik
Pharmaceutical Scientist
Dr. Sundus Tewfik is the Course Leader for Herbal Medicinal Sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University. As a Pharmaceutical scientist, she lectures on conventional and herbal pharmacology.…
Dr. Rayan Gaafar
Foundation Year 1 Doctor
Rayan is a foundation doctor who completed her training at Newcastle University. Between her fourth and fifth years, she completed a Masters of Research in Epidemiology. This involved a research project assessing the barriers that Sudanese women face when accessing antenatal care in Sudan.…
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.…
Prof. Geoffrey Oldham
Professor
Prof. Oldham is an Honorary Professor with SPRU at the University of Sussex, UK. Prof. Oldham trained as a geophysicist and spent several years in the exploration research laboratories of Standard Oil Company of California.…
Prof. John Adams
Professor of Economics
Professor Adams was the Head of Department of Economics at the British University in Egypt from 2011 until August 2018 and was previously Director of the China-EU Research Centre based in Edinburgh, Scotland.…
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.…
Ahmed Abdeldaim
Coordinator
Studied Accounting and finance at the university of Brighton and proceeded to work for one of the major banks in the UK as a specialist in the tactical and short term planning.…
Prof. W. Edward Steinmueller
Director
Steinmueller received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University His works include industrial economics studies of software, integrated circuit and telecommunication industries and the book Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity, Oxford University Press, 2000 (with R.…
Dr. Ihab Tewfik
Course Leader
Ihab Tewfik is the Course Leader for BSc. (Honours) Human Nutrition, Life Sciences Department, University of Westminster. He graduated in nutritional biochemistry University of Alexandria and completed his Master and Doctorate in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition Department, University of Alexandria.…
Prof. Fatemeh Rabiee
Professor
Prof Fatemeh Rabiee is a Professor of Public Health Promotion within the Faculty of Health, Birmingham City University. She has experience of working in the UK, Netherlands and in Iran as a practitioner, manager and as an academic in the field of Public Health Promotion.…
Dr. Leila Cheikh
Lecturer
Dr. Leila Cheikh is a Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She is a Director of Field Studies (OMPHI) and Project Leader of (INTERGROWTH-21ST). Dr. Leila Cheikh is A key role that involved contributing to decision making, implementation and overall management of major research projects.…
Rasha Alhaj
Doctoral Researcher
Rasha Alhaj an inventor, she discovered the substance in honey, which inhibit the growth of breast cancer cell. Founder of The Amal Initiative, A project to bring healing & hope to cancer patients.…
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. …
Dr. Barry Lee-Scherer
Prinicipal Lecturer
Barry is Principal Lecturer in International Management and Organisational Behaviour. He is an expert in international management education and development and organisational behaviour, with a wide experience of teaching and consultancy in the UK, France, Italy and Germany, as well as the USA, Russia, Africa and Asia. …
Dr. Peter Heisig
Senior Research Fellow
Peter holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and a Diploma in Social Sciences from the University of G¨ttingen (Germany). He is Senior Research Fellow at the Leeds University Business School (UK) where his main research centres around Knowledge Management.…
Dr. Hassan Hamdoun
Research Fellow
Research Fellow at Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Working on data analysis and Complex networks modelling and optimisation with applications to Communications networks, Health, broadband networks, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Energy Management and internet of things (IOT)-based networks. …
Jane Bailey
Researcher
Jane Bailey read her BSc degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Westminster, London and graduated with First Class Honours in 2010. The work described in this report is based on her final year project.…