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Thirty-five years. One consistent focus.
Dr. Nayab Sultan is a globally recognized advisor working at the intersection of occupational, environmental, and public health systems. He specializes in silica exposure, silicosis prevention, silica-induced diseases, and the long-latency occupational diseases that claim workers' lives years or decades after the exposure that caused them. His clients are the organizations – governments, corporations, global agencies, and research institutions – that need to understand exposure risk at the system level and build the frameworks to manage it. His work spans national OHS policy design, international standards governance, field-level research, and the advisory relationships that knowledge translation into operational change.
The Work
Where the problems are hardest, the work is most needed.
The field is where occupational health is ultimately tested. Dr. Sultan has spent three decades in it – in the tunnels of the Channel Tunnel construction project, in the oil and gas fields of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Azerbaijan, across the mining communities of Southern Africa and South America, and in the government offices of the Caribbean, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, and Namibia where national OHS systems were built, sometimes from nothing.
The consistent thread is the gap between what regulations say and what systems actually do. Silicosis is preventable. So are pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, and the occupational lung diseases that kill workers who followed the rules their employers gave them. Public and families are also affected directly and indirectly by exposures.
Prevention requires systems that function – not just policies that exist. That is the work. That is why it matters.
"The gap is not regulation. The gap is system design."
Credentials
Selected Publications