Huda Basaleem

Commissioner

Assistant Vice President of the University of Aden for Academic Affairs and Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health at the University of Aden, Yemen

Dr. Huda Basaleem is the Assistant Vice President of the University of Aden for Academic Affairs, Director of the Aden Cancer Registry and Research Center, and a Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Yemen. She is the Vice President of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing Countries (UNESCO) and the Secretary General of the Yemeni Women Association for Science & Technology. Dr. Huda also represents Yemen in the Permanent Advisory Committee for Scientific Research and Innovation, Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization.

With over 20 years of experience as a practising physician and public health consultant, Dr. Huda has worked extensively with UN agencies and NGOs, including WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, and the World Bank. She specializes in women and child health, nutrition, women empowerment, reproductive health, and gender-based violence. She collaborates with governmental and non-governmental stakeholders to address humanitarian issues in Yemen. An expert at the WHO for the Eastern Mediterranean Countries on NCDs surveillance, she is also a member of the Country Focal Point Bioethics Network on Women’s Issues in the Arab Region.

Dr. Huda has published over 80 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and books from international publishing houses. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Yemeni Journal of Medical and Health Sciences and an Editorial Board Member of several regional and international journals. She has received numerous awards, including the Elsevier Award in Life Sciences (2013), Best Doctor for the Fight for a Better World in the Arab World (2014), and the TWAS-Fayzah Al-Kharafi Award (2021). She has been ranked the top researcher at the University of Aden for four consecutive years (2021-2024) in the international AD Scientific Index.