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Prof. Alhaji Umaru Shehu

Professor Emeritus, Community Medicine, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Shehu is also the joint editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, West African Edition. In 1990 he was the World Health Organization's representative to Ethiopia and the director of the WHO Sub-Regional Health Development Office from 1985 to 1989.

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