Creating a better future together
UQ is collaborating with institutions throughout the Middle East and North Africa to find solutions to humanitarian, security, economic, political, and social challenges – many of which have global implications.
Fast facts
340
MENA students enrolled at UQ
828
MENA-UQ co-publications
91
academic staff born in MENA
8
research project collaborations
1273
alumni in MENA
7
agreements with 6 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2023 data.
Collaboration in action
- The University of Queensland’s potential COVID-19 vaccine is entering an important new phase of testing with the live coronavirus to determine how effectively it induces protection against coronavirus infection.
- Across UQ, nearly 100 researchers from a range of disciplines are banding together to prevent, better diagnose and treat breast cancer – an insidious disease that affects millions of lives around the world each year.
- Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.
- Cervical cancer vaccine co-inventor Professor Ian Frazer AC will stand beside Presidents and Princesses at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) awards in Kazakhstan later this month.
- 7 August 2019The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development unit hosted an opening ceremony in August 2019, for 46 participants undertaking Australia Awards Short Courses in Agribusiness (Africa) and Inclusive Governance for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (Nepal).
- Queensland Multicultural Awards finalist Madina Mohmood (centre) reflects on the people and circumstances that inspire her to make a positive change in her community.
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Alumni
UQ has more than 1,200 alumni from the Middle East and North Africa. Alumni with significant links to the region include: