Huda Omer Ba Saleem 2014 World Cancer Congress

Huda Omer Ba Saleem

Huda BaSaleem, M.B.Ch.B (Yemen), MPh majoring nutrition (Egypt), PhD (Malaysia), Diploma in International Child & Youth Care for Development, (Victoria University, Canada). Public health and community medicine consultant. Currently, she is the Head, and Assistant Prof in the Dept. of Community Medicine, director of f Aden Cancer Registry and Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Aden University. Member in important scientific and professional organizations including the Organization for Women in Sciences and Development (OWSD), the International Epidemiological Association (IEA) and the Yemeni Association for Women in Science and Technology, SOUL Organization for Women and Child Health, International Association for Cancer Registries (IACR) and the Asian Pacific Network for Cancer Registries (ACRN). She is member of the editorial board of the Saudi Medical Journal, the Iinternational Reviewer Panel of Medical Science Monitor (USA), American Journal of Food and Nutrition (USA), Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapeutics (Pakistan), Hadramout Medical Journal. Also working as coordinator of community medicine in the Yemeni Council of Medical Specialization and trainer in research methodology, statistics, cancer control/prevention, health curricula designing and evaluation, early childhood development (ECD), women health and health/nutrition education. The areas of research interest are: Public health, nutrition, women and child health, women empowerment, cancer control particularly reproductive cancer. Currently, Dr. Huda Basaleem is taking part in a regional research network in the Middle East and North Africa called GRACE or gender research for empowering women in information, communication, technology for development (ICT4D). Dr. Huda Basaleem performed several consultancies for UNICEF, World Bank, EU, and Foundation for Future. She has many articles published in regional and international peer reviewed journals.