Mr. Ayman Ahmed is a Research Fellow at Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and a Wellcome Trust Master Fellow's of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK. His interests are the research and control of arboviral diseases and Viral hemorrhagic fevers, with a particular interest in zoonotic arboviruses such as Rift Valley Fever. He is working toward developing an outstanding research career in Arbovirology and establishing the first Centre of Arbovirology Research in Sudan.