award in London
Chemical Suhad Bahari ... daughter of the first Saudi chemist
The chemist Suhad Bahjari is considered the daughter of the first Saudi chemist. And her father instilled in her - as the first Saudi chemist - a love of "chemistry" from a young age.
Bahari managed to become the first Saudi woman to receive an international award in London, after her father used to tell her about chemistry and its importance by conducting simple practical experiments.
The superiority of Dr. Suhad Maatouq Bahjari began to appear when she ranked fifth at the level of the Kingdom''s schools in the scientific field in 1975, and she actually started this while studying biochemistry in Britain.
A professor of chemistry at the boarding school encouraged her to study the specialty and she became passionate about it, then she obtained a bachelor''s degree in biochemistry in 1975, to obtain a clinical biochemistry doctorate from the University of Wales, and over the course of two and a half years she conducted several scientific experiments within the nutrition unit at the King Fahd Center for Research Laboratory.
Its practical interests are numerous, the most prominent of which are: conducting research that shows the local nutritional situation and its relationship to common diseases, developing the concept of the relationship of different diseases to the diet (quantity and type of consumption), and conducting research based on field surveys, observation and measurement of daily consumption and biochemical indicators of healthy individuals and those with diseases that have previously proven their relationship to nutrition in International research and other countries, studying the relationship of the environmental situation and pollution to local diseases, especially chronic ones, developing environmental and nutritional awareness programs for the community, and studying the relationship between ethnic origins and drug interactions and effects.
It should be noted that Bahjari has completed several scientific researches, including “the effect of chlorine on the people of Jeddah,” “the causes of obesity in Saudi society,” and “the effect of local foods on the health of society.” In 2002 she was awarded the best joint summary award with “King College”. .
