Dr. Hamisu Salihu MD, MPH

Hamisu Salihu is a Professor in Maternal and Child Health as well as Preventive Medicine. He is a specialist in health disparity issues, and has published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal articles mostly on the topic. Hamisu was selected in 2019 as the international monitor to supervise the largest HIV survey in the world (https://annalsofglobalhealth.o...) conducted in Nigeria and funded by the CDC and Global Fund. He is a founding member of the SCOR Consortium, an international assembly of scientists and researchers from the US, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa that aims to tackle global health issues (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic) through the use of artificial intelligence systems (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...). Hamisu was also the Founding Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, Houston, Texas. As reported by the New York Times, he is one of the world’s leading researchers in stillbirth (New York Times, April 1st, 2008). He was also featured in Time Magazine as a pioneer in the epidemiology of the male biologic clock in humans (April 22, 2013 issue of Time magazine).