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    Ashar Muhammad Malik

    Assistant Professor

    Associate Dean (Education)

    Joint appointment

    Department of Community Health Sciences, Medical College, Pakistan

    ashar.malik@aku.edu

    Telephone: 92 21 34869866

    Publication

    Introduction

    I joined Department of Community Health Sciences, AKU as senior instructor in November 2007. In 2022 I promoted to the rank of Assistant professor. Since January 2024, I am working as Associate Dean for Education. Before joining AKU, I was assocaited with Ministry of Health, Islamabad working with the National Health Policy Unit. Prior to that I worked for nearly a decade with Department of Health Government of KPK.

    Education

    Ph.D. Health Economics and health Policy, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, 2022
    M.Sc. Health Economics, University of York, United Kingdom, 2005
    P.G Dip Public Administration, Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan, 1995
    M.A. Economics, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 1993
    Dip. Computer Programming, N.W.F.P. Board of Technical Education, Pakistan 1992
    B.A. Economics and Statistics, Islamia College, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 1991

    Training

    Re-Thinking Teaching (RTT): A course (Re) Design Workshop, Network of Quality, Teaching and Learning, Aga Khan University, 18 January 2024 to 23 January 2024
    Assessment in an online course, BDL Network, Aga Khan University, Pakistan 2022
    Behavioural Psychology Course, SONAM, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 2010
    Advanced level course in Curriculum Development, DED, Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 2009
    Introductory short course in Health Professional Education, DED, Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 2008

    Current areas of teaching

    Health Economics and Financing, Health policy, Economic Evalaution, Micro and Macro Economics and Health Econometrics

    Research interests

    Health Econometrics for social and health policy evaluation and health equity analysis
    Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials
    Agency and information and market failure in healthcare

    Experience

    Associate Dean of Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan 2024-today
    Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, 2022-todate
    Senior Instructor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, 2007-2021
    Research Associate (Health Economics and Finance) National Health Policy Unit, Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan, 2006-07
    Deputy Director Mobile Hospital Program, Department of Health, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2005-06
    Research Fellow, M-Tag, Sydney, Australia, 2005
    Assistant Director Administration, Department of Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 2002-04
    Planning and Monitoring Officer, Social Action Program, Department of Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 1998-2001

    Professional associations

    Education Council, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 

    National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, Expended Program for Immunization, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination. Government of Pakistan 2020-23
    Associate editor, BMC Health Services Research
    Expert panel, Pakistan Health Research Council Pakistan, 2015-2019
    Task force for national health policy (2008-2010), Ministry of Health, Pakistan and Convener of the Working Group on Healthcare Financing of the Health Policy Taskforce, Ministry of Health, Pakistan, 2008-10
    Bio-ethics group, Aga Khan University, Karachie
    International Health Economics Association
    International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Pakistan chapter

    Awards and honours

    Faculty Development Award, Aga Khan University, 2015
    Third place in P. G. Dip. Public Administration 1995
    Merit Scholarship, Bachelor of Arts, Islamia College, Peshawar 1990
    Best graduate, Superior Sciences College, Peshawar, 1989

    Publications

    Bird VJ, Sajun SZ, Peppl R, Evans-Lacko S, Priebe S, Singh S, Venkatraman L, Ramachandran P, Pasha A, Malik A, Qureshi O. Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused resource-orientated approach (DIALOG+) to improving the quality of life for people with psychosis in India and Pakistan—a cluster RCT. Trials. 2023 Dec;24(1):1-4.
    Malik MA, Rohm LR, van Baal P, van Doorslaer EV. Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis. BMJ global health. 2021 Dec 1;6(12): e006453.
    Malik A M, Kazmi SIAS, Khan AJ, Rifaq F, Chaudhary K, Spatio-temporal variation and socioeconomic factors of financial hardships of out-of-pocket health expenditure in Pakistan. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 2021;27(10):962–973.
    Bresnahan BW, Vodicka E, Babigumira JB, Malik AM, Yego F, Lokangaka A, Chitah BM, Bauer Z, Chavez H, Moore JL, Garrison LP. Cost estimation alongside a multi-regional, multi-country randomized trial of antenatal ultrasound in five low-and-middle-income countries. BMC public health. 2021 Dec;21(1):1-6.
    Ali A, Malik MA, Khan UR, Khudadad U, Raheem A, Hyder AA. Helmet wearing saves the cost of motorcycle head injuries: a case study from Karachi, Pakistan. ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research: CEOR. 2021; 13:573.
    Khuwaja HM, Karmaliani R, Mistry R, Malik MA, Sikandar R. Factors Influencing Low Enrollment in a Community Based Health Insurance Scheme, Karachi, Pakistan: a Mixed Methods Case Study. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science. 2021 Feb 1;20(2):293-301. (based on student thesis)
    Khan AJ, Malik MA. Regulation, quality reporting and third-party certification of healthcare providers. JPMA: The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2020 Oct 1;70(10):1811-8.
    Wasay M, Malik MA. A new health care model for Pakistan. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2019 May; 69(5):608.
    Malik MA, Van de Poel E, Van Doorslaer E. Did contracting effect the use of primary health care units in Pakistan? Health Policy and Planning. 2017 Sep 1;32(7):1032-41.
    Akseer, N., M. Kamali, S. E. Arifeen, Malik, M.A, Z. Bhatti, N. Thacker, M. Maksey, H. D’Silva, I. C. da Silva and Z. A. Bhutta. "Progress in maternal and child health: how has South Asia fared?" British Medical Journal 357: j1608.
    Malik M.A, Abdul Sattar, Zaid Bhatti, Arjumand Rizvi and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Expenditure tracking and review of maternal, newborn and child health policy of Pakistan, Health Policy and Planning, 2017; 32(6) 2017: 781-790
    Malik M.A., Saleem Perwaiz Iqbal, Farina Abrejo, Nature and scope of cost effectiveness analysis: with special reference to Pakistan, Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 2017;67(5) 773-778
    Mann, C., Ng, C., Akseer, N., Bhutta, Z.A., Borghi, J., Colbourn, T., Hernández-Peña, P., Huicho, L., Malik, M.A., Martinez-Alvarez, M. and Munthali, S., 2016. Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what can analysis of national health financing contribute to understanding MDG 4 and 5 progress? BMC Public Health, 16(2), 792.
    Malik M.A., Khan MM, Economic burden of mental illness in Pakistan. 2016, Journal Of Mental Health Policy And Economics. 2016 Sep;19(3):155-66
    Malik M.A, Wahid Gul, Saleem Perwaiz Iqbal, Farina Abrejo, Cost of primary health care in Pakistan, Journal of Ayub Medical College 27(1) Jan-Mar 2015
    Malik, M.A., How to write introduction and methods section of systematic review. Journal of Pakistan Medical Association Vol:64, No:10 October 2014
    Malik M A., Wasay M, Economic of health and healthcare in Pakistan (Editorial) Journal of Pakistan Medical Association Vol: 63, No:7 July 2013
    Malik M. A, and Azam S. I. Socio-economic determinants of Out-of-Pocket Payments on healthcare in Pakistan, International Journal of Equity in Health 2012, 11:51 (4 September 2012)
    Malik M.A., Helping poorer countries make locally informed health decisions (rapid response), British Medical Journal: BMJ 2010; 341:c3651
    Malik. M. A., National Health Accounts, Lessons for Pakistan (review article) Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, Volume 59, Number 10, October 2009 
    Thatte. U. M., Hussain. S., Valera. M.R., and Malik. M. A., Evidence-based decision on medical technologies in Asia Pacific: experiences from India Philippines, Malaysia and Pakistan, Value in Health, volume 12, Supplement 3, 2009
    Wasay. M., Azeemuddin. M., Masroor. I., Sajjad. Z., Ahmed. R., Khealani. B. A., Malik. M. A., Afridi. M. B., and Kamal. A., Frequency and outcome of carotid atheromatous disease in patients with stroke in Pakistan, Stroke 2009;40;708-712
    Books and Book Chapters

    Malik AM, Ali S, and Wasay M, Chapter; social and economic burden of NCDs in Pakistan, in Health Care Choices in Pakistan, Editor; saman Nazir, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, (Forthcoming 2024).

    Malik AM, Chapter 9, Health Economics and Ethics in Bioethics in Pakistan, Local context local cases. Editors Kulsoom Ghias, Murad Khan, Kausar S Khan and Sameer Nizamuddin. Lightstone Publishers, ISBN 978-969-716-206-2 

    Malik AM, Health Policies in Pakistan in the Third Millennium: What was achieved? Erasmus University, Rotterdam, ProefschriftMaken, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2022 ISBN: 978-94-6423-645-3 
    Bawani S, Khan S.K. and Malik. A.M. Human Rights to Health and Through Health: Right to health in Pakistan, Report from the high-level working Group on health and human rights of women, children and adolescent, National Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, Karachi. 2019
    Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, Shazia Qasim Jamshed, Muhammad Ashar Malik, Hans Löfgren and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani. The Pharmaceutical Industry Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines in Pakistan in: The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals: Production, Innovation and TRIPS in the Global South, Edited by Hans Löfgren and Owain David Williams. International Political Economy series. Palgrave Macmillan, August 29, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-137-31585-4
    Malik. MA. Pakistan Budgetary Reforms in Health Sector: To achieve better results in Moving from concepts to Action: Asian Experience on Managing for development Results, Asian Development Bank, 2009

    Created on:09/30/2024 Last modified:10/18/2024

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