Rasha Siddig Azrag Ahmed Ph. D.
Rasha Siddig Azrag Ahmed
Ph. D.
Professional Summary:
I am a medical entomologist with over 20 years of experience in vector surveillance, disease ecology, population genetics and vector control. I contributed to major regional health initiatives, including the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s malaria vector control project using the Sterile Insect Technique in northern Sudan. My research focuses on vectors surveillances and ecology in underdeveloped urban settings with a particular focus on adaptive behaviors of mosquito vectors and their consequences in insecticide resistance and control interventions
Research Expertise:
- ecology of disease vectors
- population genetics of mosquito vectors
- Surveillance's of disease vectors
- susceptibility to insecticides
- Taxonomy of mosquitoes, sandflies and black flies
- transmission studies of vector borne diseases
Journal Articles:
- Elmalih E., Tamomh A. G., Nour B. Y., Azrag R. S. and Eltahir N. (2025) Diversity and Composition of Mosquito Species in North Kosti Town, White Nile State, Sudan. European Academic Research, (May), x(10): 4034 – 4042..
- Elnour M. B., Gloria-Soria A, Azrag R. S., Alkhaibari A., Powell J. R. and Salim B. (2025) Population genetic analysis of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Sudan revealed recent independent colonization events by the two subspecies". Frontiers in Genetics. (May)(13): 825652..
- Atia M. A., Bashir N. H., Azrag R. S. and Hassan M. M. (2025) Resting behaviors and seasonal variation of Anopheles arabiensis in River Nile State, Sudan. . International Journal for Mosquito Research, (May), 9(1): 99-104..
- Hamid H. A., Musa H. H., Ahmed A. G, Abdul Azeez T. A, Adam A. H., Malik M. A., El Tahir A., Kafy H. T and Azrag, R. S. (2025) Stegomyia Indices of Aedes Aquatic Stages in Elgeneina town at western Darfur state. East Mediterranean Health Journal, (May), 72(12): 1189-1196.
- Khalid H. and Azrag R. S. (2025) Retrospective hospital-based study on snakebite envenomation in Sudan. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, (May), 9(115): 992-997.
- Azrag R. S., Bakhiet S. M., Mhmoud N. A., Almalik A. M., Mohamed A. H. and Fahal A. H. (2025) A possible role for ticks in the transmission of Madurella mycetomatis in a mycetoma-endemic village in Sudan. Transactions of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, (May), 115(4): 364-374..
- Simsaa M. A., Harbach R. E., Almalik A. M., Ahmed E. M., Eisa A. A., Mohamed A. H. and Azrag R. S. (2025) Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) recorded along the Nile River in central and northern Sudan, with a key for the identification of all species of the genus known to occur in the country. Zootaxa, (May), 4963(3): 401-411.
- Atia M. A., Bashir N. H., Azrag R. S. and Hassan M. M. (2025) Fauna and spatial distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in River Nile State, Sudan. International Journal of Mosquito Research,. International Journal of Mosquito Research, (May), 8(1): 123-129.
- HasapAla, S.M., Azrag, R.S. and Awad, O.M. (2024) Cost effectiveness of malaria vector control activities in Sudan. Malaria Journal, (May), 23,: 80.
- Aljaily SM, Hamed IAY, Mustafa KS, Ishag OSB, Musa EAE, Ahmed AK, Ibrahim EMA, Azrag R.S. (2024) Challenges and epidemiological implications of the first outbreak of dengue and chikungunya in Sudan. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. (May), 21(30): 53-59.
- Khalid H., Siyam M. E, Elamin M. and Azrag R.S. (2023) Scorpion stings envenomation in Sudan: a retrospective study of hospital-based incidence. Toxicology Communications, (May)(7): 1.
- Almalik A. M., Reeves R. G. and Azrag R. S. (2021) Comparison of the temporal efficacy of Aquatain surface films for the control of Anopheles arabiensis and Ochlerotatus caspius larvae from Sudan. Royal Society Open Science Journal, (May), 8(2): 200980..