Arwa completed her postgraduate study in Al-Nahrain University, College of Medicine, Microbiology Department, Baghdad, Iraq. She has held faculty positions in Microbiology Department at 2007. She granted six months from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education as visiting Scholar at Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, & Immunology, USC School of Medicine, South Carolina-United State of America. She has extensive practical experience in Tumor Virology and Molecular Virology. Arwa’s main research interests are in oncogenic viruses and tumor biology, in particular HPV and its association with cervical cancer progression and she has several publications about the carcinogenic effect of the "high-risk" HPVs. Also her current projects are focused on HCV genotypes and subtypes and New Drug Screening for HIV.

Ph.D. Medical Microbiology, Microbiology Department, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 2013. M.Sc. Medical Microbiology, Microbiology Department, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 2006. B.Sc. Microbiology, Biology Department, College of Science, Al-Mustansiriy University, 2000.

1- Teaching of Medical Virology for third year medical students. 2- Teaching of Clinical Virology for fifth year medical students. 3- Lab. instructor for undergraduate students of Medical Microbiology (Virology, Immunology, Bacteriology & Parasitology).

1- Lab. instructor for Ph.D. and M.Sc. students: Medical Virology. 2- Teaching of practical Immunology for Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.

Field of Interest: Medical Virology. 1- Tumor Virology (HPV& Cervical Cancer). 2- Molecular Virology (Hepatitis C Virus Genotyping). 3- Antiviral Study (HIV New Drug Screening). 4- Detection and study the RT and GIT viral infection. 5- Detection and study viral meningitis in Iraq. M.Sc. Thesis: A Study on Human Papillomavirus: High-Risk HPV E6, p53 and p16INK4Proteins Expression and Their Role in Cervical Carcinogenesis. Ph.D. Thesis: Hepatitis C virus Prevalence, Genotyping and Some Cytokines Profile in hemodialysis patients: a Survey by Polymerase Chain Reaction and Serological Methods

One Book: Arwa Al-Shuwaikh. High-Risk Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Carcinoma. LAMBERT Academic Publishing. (2013) ISBN: 978-3-659-28105-1. Other Publication: 1- HIV-1 endocytosis in astrocytes: A kiss of death or survival of the fittest?. Ashok Chauhan, Akshay Tikoo, Jankiben Patel, Arwa Mujahid Abdullah. Neuroscience Research, 2014. 2- Hepatitis C Prevalence in Hemodialysis Patients from Three Centers in Baghdad, Iraq: a Survey by Polymerase Chain Reaction and Serological Methods. Dr. Arwa Mujahid Abdullah, Dr. Ismail Ibrahim Latif, and Dr. Abdul-Razaq Hardan. 3- Role of hemodialysis and hepatitis C virus infection in circulating Th1 and Th2 cytokines in patients with chronic renal disease. Arwa M. Abdullh, Abdul-Razaq Hardan, Ismail I. Latif and Laith j. Abd-Al-Hassan. Journal of Genetic and Environmental Resource Conservation, 2013; 1(1): 6-11. 4- Genotyping of Hepatitis C Virus Isolates from Iraqi Hemodialysis Patients by Reverse Transcription-PCR and One Step Nested PCR. Arwa Mujahid Abdullah, Abdul-Razaq Hardan and Ismail Ibrahim Latif. Diyala Journal of Medicine, 2012; 3 (1): 9-18. 5- Changes in p16INK4 protein expression during cervical cancer progression and correlation to HPV infection. Arwa Al-Shwaikh, Ismail Latif and Saad Kadhim. Jordan Medical Journal, 2012; 46 (4): 307-314. 6- Relation between high risk HPV E6 and p53 proteins expression in cervical carcinoma and their premalignant lesions. The 3rd Kurdistan conference of biological sciences (Special Issue). Journal of Duhok University, 2010; Volume13 (1). 7- Immunohistochemical Study of Retinoblastoma Protein (Prb) Expression in Cervical Carcinomas and Their Premalignant Lesions. Arwa Mujahid Abdullah Al-Shwaikh and Ismail Ibrahim Latif. Diyala Journal for Pure Sciences, 2010; Volume 6 (3). 8- A study of the effect of combination of Ceftazidime and EDTA on some type of bacteria isolated from infected wound. Rana. M. Abdullah, Arwa M. Al-Shwaikh. Journal of Al-Anbar University for Pure Science, 2009; Volume 3 (3): 31-36. 9- Use of chromogenic Agar in detection of urinary tract pathogens and antimicrobial Susceptibility. Arwa M. Abdullah, Rana. M. Abdullah, Shaimma L. Salman. Journal of the Faculty Medicine Baghdad, 2009; Volume 51 (1): 39-42. 10- A study on human papillomavirus using in situ hybridization technique and its role in cervical neoplasia. Liqaa R. Al-Khuzaee, Ismail Ibrahim Latif, Arwa Mujahid Al-Shwaikh. Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2008; Volume 6(1): 28-37. 11- Detection of Serum Hs CRP and C3 Complement Levels Following Immunization with Measles Containing Vaccine in Iraqi Young Adults. Ismail Ibrahim Latif (MBChB, M.Sc., PhD), Salwa S. Abdul –Wahid (MSc., PhD.), Arwa Mujahid Abdullah (Ph.D.), Zena Jassim Mohammed (BSc.). Diyala Journal of Medicine, 2014; 7 (1): 57-63. 12- Cross-sectional study of infertile males with toxoplasmosis in Baghdad province. Husam E. Abdulla1, Nada M. Al-bashier1, Ula Al-kawaz, Arwa M. Abdullah Al-Shuwaikh, Ahmed S. Abood. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 2015; 6 (1): 254 -259.