Najla Al-Sonboli is a
pediatrician and the head of the Pediatric Department of
Al-Sabeen Hospital for Maternity and Children in Sana’a. This hospital is the biggest tertiary referral pediatric hospital in
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
and receives patients from
Sana’a
Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Govern ...
and surrounding areas, which includes people who are relocated due to war.
She is a research partner at the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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.
Biography
Al-Sonboli received her Masters in Tropical Paediatrics in 1999, a diploma in Tropical Child Health in 2000, and her Ph.D. in pediatric health in 2006 from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in
Liverpool
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, United Kingdom.
Her areas of research include
respiratory disease
Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals. They include conditions of the respiratory tract including the trachea, bronchi, bro ...
s,
pulmonary tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...
,
malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. Specifically, it is "a deficiency, excess, or imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients" which adversely affects the body's tissues ...
, and diarrhea diseases in children.
In 2018, Al-Sonboli was given the
World Health Assembly
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Th ...
Heroine of Health Award for her contributions and improvement to global healthcare.
In the face of war, and graving personal risk, Najla has shown great resilience, working tirelessly to provide essential medical care to save babies and children. Due to war, medical staff had no salaries, thus, Najla worked with no salary and under fire to help the people of her country through war. Children are dying from diseases, hunger, pieces of rocket and gunshots. Many have lost their parents in this war, many are displaced and separated from their families and their homeland.
Publications
* Assessment of Immunization to Hepatitis B Vaccine Among Children Under Five Years in Rural Areas of Taiz, Yemen - Mar 2017
* Patients Direct Costs to Undergo TB Diagnosis - Mar 2016
* Barriers to Completing TB Diagnosis in Yemen: Services Should Response to Patients’ Needs - Sept. 2014
* A Multi-Country Non-Inferiority Cluster Randomized Trial of Frontloaded Smear Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis - July 2011
* LED Fluorescence Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Evaluation - July 2011
* Rotavirus and Norovirus Infections in Children in Sana’a, Yemen - Mar 2011
* Multiple Sampling in One Day to Optimize Smear Microscopy in Children with Tuberculosis in Yemen - Feb. 2009
* Human Metapneumovirus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease in Children, Yemen - Sept. 2006
* Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Metapneumovirus in Children with Acute Respiratory Infections in Yemen - Sept. 2005
Full Citations for Published Works
* Fuad A. A. Alssamei et al., “Assessment of Immunization to Hepatitis B Vaccine among Children under Five Years in Rural Areas of Taiz, Yemen,” ed. Man-Fung Yuen, Hepatitis Research and Treatment 2017 (March 6, 2017): 2131627,
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/heprt/2017/2131627/.
* Rachel M. Anderson de Cuevas et al., “Patients Direct Costs to Undergo TB Diagnosis,” Infectious Diseases of Poverty 5, no. 1 (March 24, 2016): 24,
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0117-x.
* Rachel M. Anderson de Cuevas et al., “Barriers to Completing TB Diagnosis in Yemen: Services Should Respond to Patients’ Needs,” ed. David W. Dowdy, PLoS ONE 9, no. 9 (September 22, 2014): e105194,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105194.
* Luis Eduardo Cuevas et al., “A Multi-Country Non-Inferiority Cluster Randomized Trial of Frontloaded Smear Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,” PLOS Medicine 8, no. 7 (July 12, 2011): e1000443,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000443.
* Luis Eduardo Cuevas et al., “LED Fluorescence Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Evaluation,” ed. Douglas Wilson, PLoS Medicine 8, no. 7 (July 12, 2011): e1001057,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001057.
* Andrew Kirby et al., “Rotavirus and Norovirus Infections in Children in Sana’a, Yemen,” Tropical Medicine & International Health : TM & IH 16 (March 1, 2011): 680–84,
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02756.x.
* Nasher Al-Aghbari et al., “Multiple Sampling in One Day to Optimize Smear Microscopy in Children with Tuberculosis in Yemen,” PLoS ONE 4, no. 4 (April 9, 2009),
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005140.
* Najla Al-Sonboli et al., “Human Metapneumovirus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease in Children, Yemen - Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006 - Emerging Infectious Diseases - CDC,” accessed November 7, 2020,
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1209.060207.
Najla Al-Sonboli et al., “Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Metapneumovirus in Children with Acute Respiratory Infections in Yemen,” The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 24, no. 8 (August 2005): 734–36,
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.inf.0000172937.80719.7f.
Awards
* LSTM 2019 Honorary Degree Recipient.
* World Health Assembly Heroine of Health (2018).
References
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Women pediatricians
Alumni of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)