Dr. Beriwan Ali received a PhD in medical microbiology from The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and is currently teaching and supervising several courses and higher education students at Erbil Polytechnic University. Her professional interests focus on Medical Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Global Burden of Diseases. Her current projects include antibiotic resistance and epidemiology studies. In addition, she serves as a senior Global Burden of Diseases collaborator with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent population health research organization based at the University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.