Asma Elsony

Elsony is health and human rights activist. She is the Director and Head of Scientific Activities at Epi-Lab Khartoum Reserch and Public Health. She was the Secretary of the WHO/Horn of Africa Initiative (1998– 2004), and Former President of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (2002-2007). She worked with major international agencies, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, WHO expert for Geneva and the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, STAC, TDR, GDF, Imperial College and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine among others and with international NGOs LHL International, CDC, and the Union. She contributed to over 40 scientific publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, and have produced over 20 reports and book chapters in the field of public health.