Dr. Elfatih Mohamed Malik (Associate Professor) is a fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan. He is a medical doctor (MBBS, MD, FPH-UK) and specialist in public health with a particular interest in research methods and the control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Since graduation in 1991, Elfatih Malik has been involved in public health at the Federal Ministry of Health and State Ministry of Health in Khartoum, Sinnar, and Gezira States. He has the chance to work at many projects and programmes including primary health care, preventive medicine, health insurance, and planning and international health. He was the Minister of Health, Gezira State for 5 years.
He is recognized as a disease control specialist and as a malariologist. He worked with WHO Office in Khartoum as a malaria coordinator for a short time and he was a member of the “WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee” for 3 years and he is currently a “Member of The Global Fund Technical review Panel” as a malaria specialist. He acted as a Technical Advisor for the Sudan Field Epidemiology Training Programme- Sudan FETP for 3 years ended in 2020. He has been contracted by WHO to carry out Sudan Malaria Indicator Survey (2016), Sudan Malaria Progarmme Review (2017), Sudan Malaria Strategic Plan (2017, 2020), Somalia Malaria Programme Review 2019-2020).
Elfatih Malik is being involved in teaching and training at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and he was appointed as a rapporteur and as Head of the Community Medicine Council at the Sudan Medical specialization Board. He developed the interest in supporting junior medical and health personnel to consider research as a carrier not just a project for graduation. In this regard, he is availing himself to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students to write a sound research proposal, collecting data, and to get their findings published.
As a Coordinator of the Sudan Malaria Control programme (2001-2007), Elfatih Malik and his team established a system for conducting operational research. Many of them get published in peered reviewed journals. Up-to-date, Elfatih Malik has over 70 publications with a considerable citation index. He is a reviewer for many journals (https://publons.com/dashboard/summary/).
Furthermore, he is a Co-founder of the Sudanese Public Health Journal and is a founder of the Health and Development Journal (Arabic). I am the Principal investigator for the joint project with LSTM called CEASE project. during the period March -Dec 2021 Elfatih Malik was selected by GHD/EMPHNET to act as a consultant for event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan.