Sumera Riaz is serving as Associate Professor & Head of Community Medicine Department at University Medical & Dental College, Faisalabad. She is member of Editorial Board of Journal University Medical & Dental College (JUMDC) and reviewer of Annals of Punjab Medical College (APMC) & The Professional Medical Journal. She graduated from Punjab Medical College in 2003 with flying colours. After completing her internship from Allied Hospital Faisalabad and serving in primary health Care (PHC) sector for 2 years, she completed her Post-graduation, Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Deakin University Australia. She provided her services as General Practitioner at Red Crescent Hospital Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) for 1 year. In 2012 she joined University Medical and Dental College as Senior Demonstrator and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2015. Since then till to date she is attached with this institute and was promoted to Associate Professor & Head of Department in 2020. She is actively involved in research work and has many nationally published articles to her credit.
Dr Sumera is enthusiastically involved in many community health services initiatives like Breast cancer early detection and prevention, Drug abuse among youth, Dengue Fever Prevention & Control, awareness of malaria fever among masses.