President

Professor Dato' Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid Syed Junid

Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University

Professor Dato' Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid Syed Junid

Position

President

Qualifications

MD (UKM), MSc Public Health (NUS), PhD Health Economics (LSHTM)

Areas of Expertise

Health EconomicsHealth FinancingSocial Health InsuranceCasemixICD CodingHealth Policy

Profile

Professor Dato' Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid is the first Professor of Health Economics in Malaysia. He is the first Malaysian to obtain PhD in Health Economics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. He obtained his MD from National University of Malaysia and Master of Science in Public Health from National University of Singapore.

He is the Founding Head of International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding, a centre of excellence on casemix and health economics research in Faculty of Medicine UKM, which was established in 2011. Prior to this he served as a Senior Research Fellow of United Nations University International Institute for Global Health from 2006 to 2014.

Currently, he is appointed as the Founding Professor and Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University. He is also the Chair of Department of Health Policy & Management and Chair of Area Committee for Postgraduate Programmes of Faculty of Public Health Kuwait University. He is now appointed as a consultant and adviser to Ministry of Health of Kuwait on Control and Prevention of COVID-19 pandemic.

His main interest is in the strengthening of health care system of developing countries through research and development in health policy, health economics and financing. He has conducted more than 50 research projects; most of the projects are to support policy decisions on health economics and financing. He has supervised 45 PhD scholars and more than 100 Master students. He is currently involves in supporting a number of developing countries to implement Social Health Insurance programmes. His work on Social Health Insurance covers many countries around the world including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Mongolia, Vietnam, Bhutan, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Nepal, Uruguay, Iran, Chile, Kenya and Ghana.

He served as the Co-chair Morbidity Technical Advisory Group of ICD-11 Revision of World Health Organisation-Family of International Classification from 2007-2016. He is the Founding President of Malaysian Health Economics Association (MY-HEA) and Malaysian Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (MY-ISPOR) and the current Deputy-President of the Public Health Medicine Specialists' Association of Malaysia.

He has published more than 200 journal articles, book chapters and scientific reports with 29,162 citations and h-index of 48. He has presented more than 250 papers in local and international conferences, seminars and workshops. He has authored and co-authored eight books. His recent book is "Using Casemix for Hospital Reimbursement in Social Health Insurance Programme: Comparing Casemix System and Fee-For-Service As Provider Payment Method"

Selected Publications

  1. 1.

    Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Mohd Fairuz Ali, Mohammad Fhaisol Yusof, Zuraidah Che' Man, Saperi Sulong and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2018). Profile and outcome of post stroke patients managed at selected public primary care health centres in Peninsular Malaysia: A retrospective observational study. Scientific Report 8: 17965: 1-8

  2. 2.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Mortality Collaborators (2018). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1684-1735

  3. 3.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Causes of Deaths Collaborators (2018) Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1736-1788

  4. 4.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Risk Factors Collaborators (2018) Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1923-1994

  5. 5.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators (2018). Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1995-2051

  6. 6.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Prevention Collaborators (2018) Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1789-1858

  7. 7.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators (2018) Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 2091-2138

  8. 8.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 DALYs and HALE Collaborators (2018) Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 392: 1859-1922

  9. 9.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2016 Meningitis Collaborators (2018) Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurology 17: 1061-1082

  10. 10.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2016 Health Care Access and Quality Index Collaborators (2018). Measuring Performance on Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 Countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet 391(10136): 2236-2271

  11. 11.

    Aljunid SM, Aung YN, Ismail A, Abdul Rashid SAZ, Nur AM, Cheah J, et al. (2019) Economic burden of hypoglycemia for type II diabetes mellitus patients in Malaysia. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0211248

  12. 12.

    Yin Nwe Aung, Amrizal M Nur, Aniza Ismail, Syed M Aljunid (2019). Characteristics and outcome of high-cost ICU patients. ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research 11: 505-513

  13. 13.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Collaborators (2019) Mapping of 129 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017. Nature 574:353-358

  14. 14.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Colorectal Collaborators (2019). The global, regional and national burden of colorectal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017. Lancet Gastroenterology Hepatology

  15. 15.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration (2019) Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017. JAMA Oncology

  16. 16.

    Haliza Hasan, Syed Mohamed Aljunid and Amrizal MN (2019) The Costs of Caregivers for Children with Disabilities that Participate in Centre-Based and Home-Based Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programmes in the East Coast of Malaysia. Intellectual Discourse 27: 945-964

  17. 17.

    Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Noor Azah Aziz, Saperi Sulong and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2019). Effectiveness of home-based carer-assisted in comparison to hospital-based therapist delivered therapy for people with stroke: A randomised controlled trial. NeuroRehabilitation 45: 87–97

  18. 18.

    Aman, A.H.M., Al Junid, S.A.M., Salehudin, H., Hidayat, A., Hassan, R. & Aljunid, S.M. (2019). Ecosystem for healthcare services and management system. 3C Tecnología. Special Issue, October 2019, 28-39

  19. 19.

    Roshanim Koris, Norashidah Mohamed Nor, Sharifah Azizah Haron, Tengku Aizan Hamid, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Amrizal Muhammad Nur, Normaz Wana Ismail, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Suraya Yusuff & Namaitijiang Maimaiti (2019) The Cost of Healthcare among Malaysian Community-Dwelling Elderly. Malaysian Journal of Economics 53(1): 89-103

  20. 20.

    Haliza Hassan and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2019). Job satisfaction among Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) workers in caring for disabled persons in the east coast region of Peninsular Malaysia. BMC Public Health 19(208)

  21. 21.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Health Financing Collaborator Network (2019) Past, present, and future of global health financing: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995–2050. Lancet 393(10187): 2233-2260

  22. 22.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurology 18: 459-480

  23. 23.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Influenza Collaborators (2019) Mortality, morbidity, and hospitalisations due to influenza lower respiratory tract infections, 2017: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Respiratory Medicine 7: 69-89

  24. 24.

    Irwan Saputra, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Amrizal Muhammad Nur (2020). The Impact of Casemix Reimbursement on Hospital Revenue in Indonesia. Malaysian Journal of Health Sciences 18(2): 1-8

  25. 25.

    Rizanda Machmud, Syafrawati Syafrawati, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Rima Semiarty (2020). Does Moral Hazard Occurs in The Implementation of Social Health Insurance? Evidence from Public Hospitals in A Rural Province of Indonesia. Asia Pacific Fraud Journal 5(1): 24-32

  26. 26.

    Faisal Almaslami, Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2020). Cost-effectiveness of assisted reproductive technologies in Saudi Arabia: Comparing in vitro fertilization with intrauterine insemination. SAGE Open Medicine 8: 1–8

  27. 27.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Chronic Respiratory Disease Collaborators (2020). Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 8(6): 585-596

  28. 28.

    Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Chai-Eng Tan, Mohd Fairuz Ali and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2020). The Adaptation and Validation of the Satisfaction with Stroke Care Questionnaire (SASC10-MyTM) for use in public primary healthcare facilities caring for long-term stroke survivors residing at home in the community. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 18(193):1-10

  29. 29.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators (2020). Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. The Lancet 395(10239): 1779-1801

  30. 30.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Tahir Noraita (2020). Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Manufacturing Industries: How Much Does It Cost to the Workers, Families and Society? Partridge, Singapore

  31. 31.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Health Financing Collaborator Network (2020). Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3. Lancet April 23

  32. 32.

    Yin Nwe Aung, Amrizal M Nur, Aniza Ismail, Syed M Aljunid (2020). Determining the Cost and Length of Stay at Intensive Care Units and the Factors Influencing Them in a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia. Value in Health Regional Issues 21: 149-156

  33. 33.

    Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Amrizal Muhd Nur, Saperi Sulong, Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2020). The integrated care pathway for managing post stroke patients (iCaPPS©) in public primary care health centres in Malaysia: impact on quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and cost effectiveness analysis. BMC Geriatrics 20(1) 1-10

  34. 34.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Collaborators (2020). Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Injury Prevention 0:1–15

  35. 35.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD Collaborators (2020). Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Injury Prevention 0:1–11

  36. 36.

    Roszita Ibrahim, Azana Hafizah Mohd Aman, Amrizal Muhd Nur, Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2020) Cost centric data mining for radiology procedures at teaching hospital in Malaysia. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology 39(1): 1-8

  37. 37.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Lower Respiratory Infections Collaborators (2020) 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 20(1): 60-79

  38. 38.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 Lower Respiratory Infections Collaborators (2020) 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 20(1): 37-59

  39. 39.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Global Burden of Disease 2019 Cancer Collaboration (2021). Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability and Disability Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups from 2010 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis for Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. JAMA Oncology, Dec 30th, 2021

  40. 40.

    Wong, Timothy LW; Husain, Salina M; Ismail, Aniza; Zahedi, Farah Dayana; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed and Nur, Amrizal Muhammad (2021) Evaluation of previous management against a developed clinical pathway for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center. Medicine 100(44): e27675

  41. 41.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Adolescent Mortality Collaborators (2021). Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 398(10311): 1593-1618

  42. 42.

    Ayah Odeh, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Rihab Al-Wotayan, Mahmoud Annaka, Mohammad AlMari (2021). Cost Savings from Managing Hypertension in Primary Health Care Clinics in Kuwait. Teikyo Medical Journal 44(05): 1527-1540

  43. 43.

    Mahalul Azam, Rina Sulistiana, Arulita Ika Fibriana, Soesmeyka Savitri and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2021). Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders among Elderly Diabetics and Associated Risk Factors in Indonesia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(10301): 1-9

  44. 44.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2017 EMR Transport Injuries Collaborators (2021). Burden of Transport-Related Injuries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Archives of Iranian Medicine 24(7):512-525

  45. 45.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - Global Burden of Disease 2020 Health Financing Collaborator Network (2021) Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050. Lancet Volume 398(103908): 1317-1343

  46. 46.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - Global Burden of Disease 2019 Stroke Collaborators (2021) Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Neurology Volume 20(10): 795-820

  47. 47.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Under-5 Mortality Collaborators (2021) Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet (August 17)

  48. 48.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Respiratory Tract Cancers Collaborators (2021) Global, regional, and national burden of respiratory tract cancers and associated risk factors from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Respiratory Medicine (August 16)

  49. 49.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - Vaccine Coverage Collaborators (2021) Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1. Lancet 398: 503-21

  50. 50.

    Abdul Rahman Ramdzan, Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, Azimatun Noor Aizuddin, Zarina A. Latiff, Keng Wee Teik, Gaik-Siew Ch'ng, Kurubaran Ganasegeran and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2021) Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Genetic Testing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:8330

  51. 51.

    Aizuddin AN, Syed Rusli SAS, Ramdzan AR, Syed Omar SA, Mahmud Z, Abdul Latiff Z, Shah SA, Amat Sc, Ismail F, Keng WT, Ch'ng GS, Rais H and Aljunid SM (2021). Willingness to Pay for Cancer Genetic Testing in a Tertiary Healthcare Centre. IIUM Medical Journal of Malaysia 20(3):5-12

  52. 52.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Tobacco Collaborators (2021) Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 397(10292): 2333-2360 (June 19, 2021)

  53. 53.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Chewing Tobacco Collaborators (2021). Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Global Health 6(7) E482-499 (July 2021)

  54. 54.

    Haliza Hasan, Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz and Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2021) Parents' and caregivers' satisfaction with community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services for children with disability in east coast states in Peninsular Malaysia. Health and Social Care in the Community 29(1): 215–226

  55. 55.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid (2021). Obesity, a Costly Epidemic. In Al-Sabah S., Aminian A., Angrisani L., Al Haddad E., Kow L. (eds) Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy. Springer, Cham. Pp 13-211

  56. 56.

    Walid Q Alali, Hamad Bastaki, Joseph C Longenecker, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Mohammad AlSeaidan, Wassim Chehadeh, Harri Vainio (2021) Journal of Travel Medicine 28(2)

  57. 57.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Bashir LAI, Ismail AN, Aizuddin AN, Rashid SA and Nur AM (2022) Economic Impact of switching from partially combined vaccine Pentaxim and Hepatitis B to full combined vaccine Hezaxim in the Malaysian National Immunization program. BMC Health Services Research 22(1): 1-12

  58. 58.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Diabetes Mortality Collaborators. Diabetes mortality and trends before 25 years of age: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2022). Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2022 (7 Feb)

  59. 59.

    Syed Mohamed Aljunid - GBD 2019 Young Adult Cancer Collaborators (2022). The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for Global Burden of Diseases Study 2029. The Lancet Oncology 23(1):27-52

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