About Dean

Dr. Mohammed AM Ahmed, is clinical researcher and a cardiologist, he is passionate about investigating cardiovascular risk factors in children and adults, as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases including covid-19, he was the principal investigator of international citizen project for covid 19.

Peer-Review

Publication(s):

1. Ahmed, M.A.M.; Siewe Fodjo, J.N.; Gele, A.A.; Farah, A.A.; Osman, S.; Guled, I.A.; Ali, A.M.; Colebunders, R. COVID-19 in Somalia: Adherence to Preventive Measures and Evolution of the Disease Burden. Pathogens 2020, 9, 735.
2. Ahmed MAM, Colebunders R, Siewe Fodjo JN. Evidence for important COVID-19 community transmission in Somalia using a clinical case definition. Int J Infect Dis 2020, Jun 25;S1201-9712(20)30503-8.
3. Siewe Fodjo JN, Pengpid S, Villela EFM, Van Thang V, Ahmed M, Ditekemena J, Crespo BV, Wanyenze RK, Dula J, Watanabe T, Delgado-Ratto C, Driessche KV, Van den Bergh R, Colebunders R. Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries. J Infect. 2020 Jul 17:S0163-4453(20)30489-8.
4. Ahmed, M. A., Colebunders, R., Gele, A. A., Farah, A. A., Osman, S., Guled, I. A., … & Siewe Fodjo, J. N. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and adherence to preventive measures in Somalia: results of an online survey. Vaccines, 9(6), 543.
5. Ahmed MA, Hussein AM, Abdullahi AA, Ahmed AY, Hussain HM, Ali AM, Barre AA, Yusuf FM, Olum R, Sereke SG, Elfadul MA. Cardiovascular risk factors and clinical outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia in Somalia. Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease. 2022 Apr;9:20499361221095731.
6. Mohamud MF, Jeele MO, Cetinkaya O, Sereke SG, Bongomin F, Ahmed MA. Baseline Characteristics, Risk Factors and Etiology of Heart Failure Among Patients Hospitalized at a Teaching Hospital in Somalia: Cross-Sectional Study. Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology. 2022 Sep 13;13:63-71.
7. NGARKA L, Siewe Fodjo JN, Njamnshi WY, Ditekemena JD, Ahmed MA, Wanyenze RK, Dula J, Sessou P, Happi C, Nkengasong JN, Colebunders R. Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures in Sub-Saharan Africa during the first year of the pandemic: Pooled analysis of the International Citizen Project on COVID-19 (ICPCovid) surveys. Frontiers in Public Health.:4222.
8. A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat. By

Lazarus, Jeffrey V,Romero, Diana,Kopka, Christopher J.Karim, Salim Abdool

Abu-Raddad, Laith J.Almeida, Gisele Baptista-Leite, RicardoBarocas, Joshua A.Barreto, Mauricio L.Bar-Yam, Yaneer Bassat, Quique Batista, Carolina Bazilian, Morgan

Ahmed, Mohammed, Ramy, Mohamed Ahmed, Aide, Pedro, Aleman, Soo ,Alfred, Jean-Patrick, The, Covid-Consensus Statement Panel.

World Heart Federation Grant 2020; “Health-related quality of life of Children Following Valve replacement surgery for rheumatic heart disease in Uganda -Cross sectional Study”

Young achiever’s Award 2019 for academic excellence in the Masters’ of Paediatric training program. (MKPGMS) – UMU.

1. 1st COVID19 Conference “Adherence to covid19 preventive measures -Somalia
2. 15^th annual scientific conference of Uganda Paediatric association “Acceptability to donate human breast milk among postnatal mothers at St Francis hospital Nsambya. Mixed method study”.
3. 1^st Public Health Conference, Ministry Of health Somalia “ Cardiovascular risk factors and clinical outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia in Somalia” and “Clinical Outcomes of 1,111 Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Somalia: A High TB/Low HIV Prevalence Setting”
4. 20^th annual scientific conference of Uganda Paediatric association “Covid-19 in Somalia;Adherence to Preventive Measures and Evolution of the Disease Burden”.
5. 7^th Annual Conference for Institute of Somali Studies ACSOS-7 “COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and adherence to preventive measures in Somalia”
6. 55^th Conference of the European Association of Paediatric and congenital cardiology (AEPC).