Experts::USM

SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Health Campus

UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA (USM)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

drzahir@usm.my

+6(09) 767 (Ext) 6639

https://experts.usm.my/cvitae/drzahir

MD, PERUBATAN
UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA (USM) (MALAYSIA)
M Med, PERUBATAN MASYARAKAT
UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA (USM) (MALAYSIA)

BIOGRAPHY

I'm a USM graduate in 1994. I joined the School of Medical Sciences USM in 2005 from the MOH after obtaining a Master of Community Medicine (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) in 2002. As a lecturer, I'm coordinating the public health curriculum for the medical undergraduate. Currently, the President of SAHABAT, an NGO affiliate of Malaysian AIDS Council.

INTERESTS

Research interests are epidemiology/public health aspects of communicable diseases, i.e trends and risk among HIV/AIDS key populations (drug users, MSM, transgender etc) as well as TB contact management and high-risk groups. The next PhD-supervision project will be on the preparedness of hospital/healthcare settings in future pandemics.