The lecturer in the department of Community Medicine  / Faculty of Medicine _ University of Basrah Assistant Professor Dr. Amal Yassin Youssef participated in discussing a master's thesis at the college of higher studies of the Southern Technical University. Where she chaired the discussion committee of the student Abeer Khairy Dekan for her thesis entitled: The association of weight and obesity to food habits and some social and demographic variables among students of the Southern Technical University.