Najla Al-Sonboli is Associate Professor in Paediatrics in the Paediatric Department at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University. She is also Head of the Paediatrics Department at Al-Sabeen Hospital for Children and Women, Sana'a, Yemen. She has undertaken research for the past 15 years, working on studies of respiratory tract infections in Yemen and diarrhoeal diseases in children in Brazil and Yemen, as part of her Master's and PhD at the LSTM.