Experts::USM

SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Health Campus

UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA (USM)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Starting Date in USM: 01 January 2013

drzahir@usm.my

+6(09) 767 (Ext) 6622

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

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

BIOGRAPHY

A USM medical graduate in 1994 who joined the School of Medical Sciences USM in 2005 from the Ministry of Health after obtaining a Master of Community Medicine (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) in 2002. Currently Head of the Community Medicine Department. Also holds the president post of SAHABAT, an NGO affiliate of the Malaysian AIDS Council.

RESEARCH 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.