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Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Medical Writing,
Technical Writing,
Copywriting,
Creative Writing,
Audio Transcription,
General Proofreading & Editing,
Translation
Research
Feasibility Study,
Gray Literature Search
Consulting
Healthcare Consulting,
Operations Consulting
Data & AI
Predictive Modeling,
Statistical Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Big Data Analytics
Work Experience
Country Director
GHD|EMPHNET
November 2021 - Present
Public Health Specialist
GHD/EMPHNET
November 2021 - Present 
National Consultant MR
World Health Organization
September 2021 - November 2021
Technical consultant
TEPHINET USA
October 2019 - August 2021
Provincial Program Manager
Department of Health Gilgit-Baltistan
January 2017 - September 2019
Federal Technical Officer
TEPHINET USA
July 2015 - December 2016
District Health officer
Department of Health Gilgit-Baltistan
April 2010 - June 2015
Education
Msc Public Health
Quaid-i-Azam University
- Present
MBBS
University of Sindh
- Present
Msc Field Epidemiology
University of Health Sciences
- Present
Fellowship -One Health
Duke University United States
March 2017 - August 2017
Fellowship Global Health
University of Washington
April 2012 - April 2013
Certifications
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zakir Hussain, Najma Javed Awan, Ambreen Chaudhry, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, Rana Jawad Asghar, Yousef Khader, Aamer Ikram(2022). Risk Factors of Dengue Fever in Urban Areas of Rawalpindi District in Pakistan During 2017: A Case Control Study . JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Amjad Mehmood, Fawad Khalid Khan, Ambreen Chaudhry, Mumtaz Ali Laghari, Ijaz Shah, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, Yousef Khader, Aamer Ikram(2021). Risk Factors Associated with a Dengue Fever Outbreak in Islamabad, Pakistan: Case-Control Study . JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Munaza Fatima, Santosh Kumar, Mudassar Hussain, Naveed Masood Memon, Anum Vighio, Muhammad Asif Syed, Ambreen Chaudhry, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, et al.(2021). Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Typhoid Fever Among Hospitalized Patients in Hyderabad District, Pakistan, 2017-2018: Retrospective Record Review . JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Anum Vighio, Muhammad Asif Syed, Ishfaque Hussain, Syed Masroor Zia, Munaza Fatima, Naveed Masood, Ambreen Chaudry, Mirza Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, et al.(2021). Risk Factors of Extensively Drug Resistant Typhoid Fever Among Children in Karachi: Case-Control Study . JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Majid Ali Tahir, Amjad Mehmood, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Amna Ali, Aliya Jabeen, Nazia Hassan, Moin Iqbal, Sana Habib Abbasi(2020). Acute watery diarrhea in an urban sector of Islamabad in 2018: an outbreak investigation . 台灣公共衛生雜誌. 39?. (6?). p. 623-631.
GBD 2017 Diarrhoeal Disease Collaborators(2019). Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of diarrhoea among children younger than 5 years: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 . The Lancet. Infectious diseases.
GBD 2017 Lower Respiratory Infections Collaborators(2019). Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of lower respiratory infections among children younger than 5 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 . The Lancet. Infectious diseases.
Hussain Z, Ansari JA, Salman M, Khan EA, Asghar J(2016). An evaluation of acute respiratory infection surveillance systems in Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan . JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association.
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Zakir Hussain, Fawad Khalid Khan, Khurram Shahzad Akram, Ambreen Chaudhry, Mir Hassan Bullo, Mirza Amir Baig, Amjad Mehmood, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig(2021). Investigation of Dengue Fever Outbreak in a Rural Area of Islamabad, Pakistan: A Case Control Study . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Zakir Hussain, Mirza Amir Baig, Jamil Ahmed Ansari, Aamer Ikram, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Salman, Mirza Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Ambreen Chaudhry, Muhammad Wasif Malik, Khurram Shahzad Akram, et al.(2021). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2: An age-stratified, population-based, sero-epidemiological survey in Islamabad, Pakistan . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Zakir Hussain, Munaza Fatima, Santosh Kumar, Mudassar Hussain, Naveed Masood Memon, Anum Vighio, Muhammad Asif Syed, Ambreen Chaudhry, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, et al.(2021). Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Typhoid Fever Among Hospitalized Patients in Hyderabad District, Pakistan, 2017-2018: Retrospective Record Review (Preprint) . {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Anum Vighio, Muhammad Asif Syed, Ishfaque Hussain, Syed Masroor Zia, Munaza Fatima, Naveed Masood, Ambreen Chaudry, Mirza Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, et al.(2021). Risk Factors of Extensively Drug Resistant Typhoid Fever Among Children in Karachi: Case-Control Study (Preprint) . {JMIR} Publications Inc.
PREPRINT
Zakir Hussain, Amjad Mehmood, Fawad Khalid Khan, Ambreen Chaudhry, Mumtaz Ali Laghari, Ijaz Shah, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, Yousef Khader, Aamer Ikram(2021). Risk Factors Associated with a Dengue Fever Outbreak in Islamabad, Pakistan: Case-Control Study (Preprint) . {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Zakir Hussain, Najma Javed Awan, Ambreen Chaudhry, Zeeshan Iqbal Baig, Mirza Amir Baig, Rana Jawad Asghar, Yousef Khader, Aamer Ikram(2021). Risk Factors of Dengue Fever in Urban Areas of Rawalpindi District in Pakistan During 2017: A Case Control Study (Preprint) . {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Larik E, Arif M, Saeed A, Baig MA, Hussain Z, Chaudhary A, Baig ZI, Bugti Z, Inayat J, Muhammad K, et al.(2020). COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic test results and their associations with certain factors among the residents of Balochistan .
Chaudhry A, Ikram A, Baig MA, Salman M, Ghafoor T, Hussain Z, Khan MA, Ansari JA, Syed A, Javed W, et al.(2020). Mortality Analysis of COVID-19 Confirmed cases in Pakistan .
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