Professor Mohamed Soussi Soltani: Leader, Innovator and Researcher in Public Health

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Published Feb 9, 2021
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Vol. 99 No. 1 (2021): Issue Jan 2021

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Ahmed Ben Abdelaziz
Abdallah Bchir
Afif Ben Salah
Kamel Ben Salem
Mansour Njah
Mohamed Hsairi
Samir Ennigrou
Taoufik Nacef
Lamine Dhidah
Ridha Bellaj
Faouzi Mehdi

Abstract

Mohamed Soussi SOLTANI (June 27, 1953 - March 2, 2016) is Professor of Preventive and Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Monastir (Tunisia). The objective of this paper is to present, to new generations of the specialty in the Greater Maghreb, this leading teacher from the Center-East of Tunisia (Monastir), through the testimonies of his companions, and his indexed publications. All the colleagues of the late SOLTANI testified to his high human and professional qualities, particularly perseverance, commitment, forward thinking, integrity and professionalism. The scientific life of the late Professor Soltani was oriented towards two major themes: Public Health and Family Medicine. Indeed, the deceased has developed several new preventive activities in first-line structures such as anonymous and free HIV screening, family planning, rational use of drugs, breast cancer screening, smoking cessation, prevention of rheumatic heart disease. Pr SOLTANI welcomed general practitioners from the Monastir region to the Faculty's Community Medicine Department, creating with them a movement to advocate for the academic and professional development of general medicine into an authentic specialty of family medicine. Out of the 34 publications of Professor SOLTANI, indexed on PubMed, 11 were signed by himself in first position, mainly relating to maternal health (prenatal surveillance, education for maternal health, pregnancy referral system) and infant (low birth weight, vaccination, mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B, meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae). Thus, with a life prospering by innovations and research in public health, Professor SOLTANI will always remain a model for young people in the specialty of Preventive and Community Medicine. His followers have an obligation to write his complete biography, to safeguard it and pass it on to new generations of public health.

Keywords:

Public Health - Preventive Medicine - Community medicine - Schools, Médical - School, Public Health - Reproductive Health - Infant Health - General Practice - Family Practice - Tunisia

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