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Dr. Haruna Sesay
Assistant
Professor
Department
of Biology
School of Computer, Mathematical and
Natural Sciences
Morgan State University
1700 E. Coldspring Lane
Baltimore, Maryland 21251
Key 152
(tel) 443-885-1367
hsesay@morgan.edu
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Biographical Sketch
Born
at Kailahun in the Eastern Province
of Sierra Leone. Attended the
Kailahun Methodist Elementary
School and moved to the then
Kenema Central School. Transferred
to the Prince of Wales Secondary
School, Freetown, for the Junior
Level West African School Certificate
and also the Advanced Level London
General Certificate of Education
(GCE-A Level). Awarded a Sierra
Leone National Scholarship to study in Britain.
Returned, with the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, and
served in the Ministry of Health in various capacities.
Obtained the Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University,
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,
Maryland, on a World Health Organization (WHO)
Tropical Diseases Research (TDR) Fellowship.
Returned to Sierra Leone for
service in aspects of public sector, academic,
and international collaboration, in the development
of the Sierra Leone Health care system. Presently
resident in the United States and on the faculty
of the Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr
Sesay served as head of the Microbiology
Department of the College Medicine
and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone.
Before moving to Morgan, he was
an adjunct faculty, for Immunology
and Biology, in the University
of the District
of Columbia, Washington, DC.
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Research Interest
Microbial ecology, microbial pathogenesis and
transmission, health care intervention program development and evaluation.
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Publications
- Sesay, HR. and
Trpis, M. Prevalence,
Intensity of Infection and Endemicity of Onchocerciasis in
the Forest- Savanna mosaic Region
of Sierra Leone. Acta. Leiden 1992; 60(2): 61-77.
- Sesay,HR. and Trpis, M. Poster Presentation:
ONCHO-NOW Symposium,1989: Recent Developments and Prospects of Control:
Prevalence, Intensity of Infection and Endemicity of
Onchocerciasis in the Forest-
Savanna mosaic Region of Sierra Leone.
- Sesay, HR and Dobson, R. Mites
in Scottish house dust with special emphasis on bedding and allergic
bronchial asthma, Acaralogia: 1974, 14(30, 384-392);
and Cumulated Index Medicus: 15, 2795, 1974.
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