Sultana A Alhurishi سلطانة بنت عبدالعزيز الحريشي

Biography
Sultana completed her undergraduate degree at King Saud University and was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Health Education in 2003. She then worked as a Clinical Patient Educator at King Fahad Medical City maternity hospital. She joined King Saud University in 2005 and has worked as a teaching assistant in the Community Health Sciences Department. She was awarded her Master’s in Public Health (MPH) by the University of Leeds in 2009, and a PhD by the University of Leeds in January 2015. She now works as an assistant professor at the Community Health Sciences Department at the College of Applied Medical Sciences.
Research Interests
She is interested in research that focuses on public health, especially cancer, health education and promotion using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. She has research experience in running statistical analyses, applied thematic analyses, mixed methods syntheses and mixed methods systematic reviews. Her doctoral thesis looked at factors associated with the late presentation and diagnosis of breast cancer, for which she used a mixed methods analysis. She has synthesised evidence from the analyses of cancer registry data and narratives of women diagnosed with breast cancer to generate evidence about the characteristics possessed by women with a higher likelihood to present late for breast cancer investigations in Saudi Arabia.