Center for Global Health Faculty

Associate

Director, Center for Community Development, Karachi, Pakistan

Academic Degrees

• MBBS

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  International Health

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

  Division:

  Disease Control and Prevention

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

ajkhan+jhsph.edu

Phone:

+92-21-452-5357; +92-300-828-0353

Fax:

+92-21-439-6255

Research and Professional Experience

Vaccine preventable diseases, disease surveillance, injection safety, geographical information systems GIS, clinical trials

Keywords

vaccines, disease surveillance, injection safety, GIS, clinical trials, Pakistan, South Asia

Honors and Awards

Johns Hopkins Disease Control & Prevention Track Scholarship (Full Ph.D. tuition)

Visiting Faculty, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University 2001 to current

Selected Publications

Halsey NA, Pinto J, Espinosa-Rosales F, Faure-Fontenla MA, da Silva E, Khan AJ, Webster ADB, Minor P, Asturias E, Hussain H, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Winkelstein J, Sutter R, and the Polio Project Team. Search for Poliovirus Carriers Among Persons with Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Bulletin of the WHO. 2004 Jan;82(1):3-8.

Luby S, Khan AJ, Altaf A, Hutin Y, Aslam M. Seroprevalence of the antibody to hepatitis C in select groups in the Punjab region of Pakistan. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2002 Aug;35(2):202; 202-3.

Khan AJ, Luby SP, Fikree F, Karim A, Obaid S, Dellawala S, Mirza S, Malik T, Fisher-Hoch S, McCormick JB. Unsafe injections and the transmission of hepatitis B and C in a periurban community in Pakistan. Bulletin of the WHO. 2000 Aug;78(8): 956-963.

Luby S, Khanani R, Zia M, Vellani Z, Ali M, Qureshi AH, Khan AJ, Mujeeb SA, Shah SA, Fisher-Hoch S. Evaluation of blood bank practices in Karachi, Pakistan, and the government's response. Health Policy Plan 2000 Jun;15(2):217-222

Pasha O, Luby SP, Khan AJ, Shah SA, McCormick JB, Fisher-Hoch SP, Household members of hepatitis C virus-infected people in Hafizabad, Pakistan: infection by injections from health care providers., Epidemiol Infect 123: 3, 515-8, Dec, 1999

Altaf A, Luby S, Ahmed AJ, Zaidi NA, Khan AJ, Mirza S, McCormick J, Fisher-Hoch S. Outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Quetta, Pakistan: Contact tracing and risk assessment. Trop Med Int Health 1998 Nov;3(11):878-82

Baqi S. Nabi N. Hasan SN, Khan AJ. Pasha O. Kayani N. Haque RA. Haq-IU. Khurshid M. Fisher-Hoch S. Luby SP. McCormick JB. HIV antibody sero-prevalence and associated risk factors in sex workers, drug users, and prisoners in Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology. 18(1):73-9, 1998 May 1.

Luby S, Qamruddin C, Shah A, Omair A, Pasha O, Khan AJ, Hoodbhouy F, McCormick J, Fisher-Hoch S. The relationship between therapeutic injections and high prevalence of hepatitis C infection in Hafizabad, Pakistan. Epidemiology and Infection. 1997, 119:349-356.