El Daw Suliman is a program associate in the Population Council’s regional office in Cairo. Before joining the Council he worked as a consultant for the World Bank thematic group on Population, Health, and Poverty. Suliman directs the activities of the Council’s regional health program. His current program activities include a study of the situation of reproductive health (RH) services in Sudan; a study of urban health and poverty in Khartoum State; technical capacity-building training for junior researchers working in the RH field in Sudan; and a study of HIV and AIDS among street children in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt.

Suliman has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with a specialty in population and health economics. He has presented work on Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen at a number of local and international conferences on issues related to mother and child health, family planning, fertility, children’s schooling, and child labor. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the demographic and economic impacts of HIV and AIDS, and he has presented his thesis work at a number of international conferences.  

Suliman is affiliated with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program.