Y. Bhg. Prof. Dato' Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid

Y. Bhg. Prof. Dato' Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid is a Professor of Health Economics and Senior Research Fellow in United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health. Prior to this he served as a Professor of Health Economics and Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Head of Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia(UKM). He obtained his MD from UKM in 1985, Master of Science in Public Health from National University of Singapore in 1989 and PhD in Health Economics and Financing Programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. He is a Fellow of Academy of Medicine Malaysia since 2000.

Currently he is appointed as the Consultant and Advisor to Ministry of Health Indonesia on the implementation of Case-mix System in a number of public and teaching hospitals in the country from September 2005 to December 2008. From September 2006, he was appointed as a Consultant for Asian Development Bank for Implementation of Case-Mix System to improve quality and efficiency of health care services Mongolia.

 

He served as consultants and advisers to a number of international agencies such as World Health Organisations, UN-AIDS, UNDP, UNICEF,  GAVI and the World Bank.

 

He is currently the President of Public Health Medicine Specialist Association of Malaysia, Executive Council Member of Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control, Executive Board Member of Asia Pacific International Society for Pharmoeconomics  and Outcome Research and member of Health Technology Council of ISPOR.

 
He has published more than 150 journal articles, monographs and seminar papers.