Rasha Siddig Azrag Ahmed Ph. D.
Rasha Siddig Azrag Ahmed
Ph. D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus
Epidemiology; Microbiology
Research Expertise:
- Ecology of disease vectors
- Population genetics of disease vectors
- Surveillance's of disease vectors
- Susceptibility of disease vectors to insecticides
- Taxonomy of mosquitoes, sandflies and black flies
- Transmission 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..
- Elnour M. B, Mohamed Moustafa M. A., Khogali R., Azrag R. S., Abdullah D. Alanazi, Amani Kheir, Ryo Nakao, Thierry de Meeûs, Bashir Salim. (2020) Distinct haplotypes and free movement of Aedes aegypti in Port Sudan, Sudan. Journal of Applied Entomology, (May), 144(9): 817-823.
- Azrag R. S. and Mohammed B. H. (2018) Anopheles arabiensis in Sudan: a noticeable tolerance to urban polluted larval habitats associated with resistance to Temephos. Malaria Journal, (May)(17): 204.
- Mohamed A. H., Ali A. M., Harbach R. E., Reeves R. G., Ibrahim K. M., AhmedMohmed M. A. and Azrag R. S. (2017) Aedes mosquitoes in the Republic of the Sudan, with dichotomous keys for the adult and larval stages. Journal of Natural History, (May), 51: 513-529.
- Azrag R. S., Ibrahim K., Malcolm C., El Rayah E. and El-Sayed B. (2016) Laboratory rearing of Anopheles arabiensis: impact on genetic variability and implications for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) based mosquito control in northern Sudan. Malaria Journal, (May), 15: 432.