The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) would like to welcome Dr. Mohamed M. Sirdar, PhD back to the Team! From 2016 until 2021, Dr. Sirdar worked as an Animal Health Moderator with ISID’s Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED). Prior to re-joining ISID, Dr. Sirdar was a Sub-Regional Programme Officer at the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) based in Gaborone (Botswana). Mohamed was primarily coordinating AMR projects in terrestrial and aquatic animals within the 16 Southern African Development Community Member states. He was also responsible for coordinating the animal health component of two AMR Multi-partner Trust Fund projects focusing on vaccine development, substandard and falsified veterinary medicines, and advancing the implementation of AMR National Action Plans (NAPs).
Prior to joining WOAH, Mohamed was a Senior Veterinary Researcher at the South African Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute (ARC-OVR) based in Pretoria where he led the Epidemiology and Training Unit. Before his move to South Africa, Dr. Sirdar worked for nine years with the poultry industry in both the public and private sectors of Sudan.
Mohamed has published more than 45 research articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences proceedings. His research activities are related to food safety and trans-boundary animal diseases with specific emphasis on foot and mouth disease (FMD). Mohamed is the current President of the Southern African Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SASVEPM).
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum (Sudan) and completed his MSc and PhD at the Epidemiology Section of the Faculty of Veterinary of Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Dr. Sirdar will be directly supporting ISID and ProMED’s CAMO-Net global efforts (https://camonet.org/) in addition to other AMR outbreak reporting and general surveillance efforts. You can also find him at the upcoming 20th ICID in Cape Town, SA this December.
Please join us as we welcome him (back) to the Team!