COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCES.

The Aga Khan University.

ANWAR MERCHANT

 

PERSONAL

 

Name Anwar Merchant

 Date of Birth 31 May 1956

 Place of Birth Dacca (East Pakistan)

 Citizenship Pakistani

 Marital Status Married

 

ADDRESS

 Home:

 B-4 Noorabad

Block 14, Gulshan-e-Iqbal

Karachi 74800

Pakistan

 Telephone: 92 21 4930222

 

Work:

 Aga Khan University

Department of Community Health Sciences

Stadium Road

PO Box 3500

Karachi 74800

Pakistan

Telephone: 92 21 4930051 Ext 3146/3144

Fax: 92 21 4934294

email: chsaku@biruni.erum.com.pk

 

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

MPH (Master of Public Health), June 1989, School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA, with concentration in epidemiology and health policy and management.

 

DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine), 1980, School of Dental Medicine Shiraz University (then affiliated to University of Pennsylvania), Shiraz, Iran.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

 

March 1994 - present

 

Senior Instructor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi. Duties are a mixture of teaching research, and consulting. Mainly involved in teaching epidemiology and biostatistics to undergraduate medical students and other health care providers attending continuing education courses. Directing a clinical trial looking to evaluate the impact of combined schedules, of injectable and oral polio vaccines, on wild poliovirus circulation. If found effective, this may be an important strategy in polio eradication. Consultant to the Health Department, Government of Sindh, in a World Bank funded project aimed at improving public sector health care.

 

May 1993 - March 1994

 

Consultant, Department of Health Education, Aga Khan Health Services, Pakistan, planning, conceptualizing, developing, evaluating and monitoring health education programs for Aga Khan Health Service Pakistan. Training health staff in health education.

 

October 1993

 

Consultant to Aga Khan Health Service Pakistan, Local Health Board Karimabad, to develop a plan to restructure the community based maternal and child health program, to widen its focus.

 

October 1993

 

6 weeks consultancy on World Bank funded project to estimate the health impacts of the left bank Outfall Drain Project in Sanghar, being implemented by Water and Power Development Authority.

 

1989-March 1993

 

Program Officer, Aga Khan Health Services, Pakistan. Duties included reviewing primary health care programs being implemented by AKHS,P; health program planning; monitoring and evaluation of community health programs; data collection and analysis, monitoring MIS; preparing reports for international donor agencies.

 

1981-1988

 

Managing dental program for school aged children, Aga Khan Health Services, Pakistan. Helped develop and manage this program which catered to children in urban and rural areas of Pakistan through six mobile dental teams. Introduced a preventive dental program for school children based on topical fluorides and health education (voluntary capacity).

 

MEDICAL LICENSES

 

Registered with Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.

 

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATIONS

 

MPH (Master in Public Health).

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AFFILIATIONS

 

Pakistan Dental Association.

 

HONORS, AWARDS

 

Regional Cooperation for Development Scholarship to study dentistry at Shiraz University, 1974 - 1980.

 

AKF Scholarship to do MPH at Harvard, 1988 - 1989.

 

AKF Travel and Study Award to study child to child and early childhood education in India 1988.

 

Principal investigator in the Seed Grant Award research award given by the Aga Khan University to study the risk factors of oral suamous cell carcinoma in Pakistan, 1995.

 

Co-investigator in the Seed Grant Award research award given by the Aga Khan University to study the rates of myocardial infarction in Pakistanis, 1995.

 

Co-investigator and director, Combined OPV - eIPV schedules in Karachi, Pakistan, funded by Pasteur Merieux, France, 1995-96.

 

INVITED SPEAKER, SEMINARS (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)

 

"Role of topical fluorides in dental practice", presentation at Pakistan Dental Conference, Karachi, Pakistan, March 1990.

 

"The Benefits of Modern Dentistry: Are They Reaching Everybody?" presentation at 14th. National Dental Conference, Quetta, Pakistan, September 1992.

 

"Dentifrices: Medicine or Cosmetics?", presentation at 14th. World Zoroastrian Dental

Conference, Karachi, Pakistan, December 1992.

 

WHO Workshop for National Oral Health Plan 1991, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

WHO Workshop for analysis in health education and integrating Public Health Dentistry

in the Dental Curriculum in Pakistan, December 1992, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

Presentation of "Integration of oral health in primary health care", WHO symposium,

March 1994, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

WHO workshop to develop national strategies for cancer control, 1995, Karachi, Pakistan

 

Participant, International Epidemiological Association Confernce, Eastern Mediterraanean Region, Alexandria, Egypt, September 1995.

 

World Bank funded meeting to plan for the national Social Action Program (SAP), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1995.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"Oral health status of Karachi school children", for Pakistan Dental Association in

collaboration with WHO, October 1990. (Report)

 

"Clinical use of fluorides", Journal of Pakistan Dental Association", Karachi.

 

"Increased severity of oral submucous fibrosis in young Pakistani men ". A Merchant, SM

Haider, FF Fikree. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. (Accepted for publication, August 1996)

 

"Health Systems and Urbanization: Role of a University", AF Qureishi, A Merchant, in WHO document, "Urbanization - A Global Health Challenge", August 1996.

 

SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

 

"No evidence of increased myocardial infarction among males living in Pakistan" A Merchant, SP Luby.

 

"Clinical and physical staging of oral submucous fibrosis" SM Haider, F F Fikree, MH Rahbar, A Merchant.

 

"Primary Care for the Urban Poor: Challenges for a University" AF Qureishi, W Qidwai, CW Vellani, S Jamil, AT Merchant, RW Zubeiri

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

"Do Pakistanis get a first myocardial infarction sooner than others?" A Merchant, SP Luby, Z Lallani, AKU Symposium, Decade celebration. September, 1994.

 

"Risk factors for vibrio cholerae infection in Karachi, Pakistan" A. Khan, S. Fisher-Hoch, A. Merchant, J. B. McCormick, Aga Khan University, Second National Sumposium, September 1995

 

"Risk factors for perinatal mortality at a maternity home in Karachi" A. Merchant, F. F. Fikree, Lynette Monteiro, Ashrafunissa Abdul Karim, Parvez Nayani, Aga Khan University, Second National Sumposium, September 1995

 

"Is there an association between gender and severity of oral submucous fibrosis?" A. Merchant, SM Haider, FF Fikree, Aga Khan University, Second National Sumposium, September 1995

 

"Smoking among males in a low socio-economic area of Karachi" A. Merchant, G. Perveeen, S. Luby, Aga Khan University, Second National Symposium, September 1995

 

"The effect of traffic noise on the hearing of rickshaw and taxi drivers in Karachi", A Merchant, I Lalani, N Latif, TA Malik, AK Sethi, SS Merchant, S Moizuddin, A Motiei, S Motiwala, I Walimohamad, Z Afridi, A Munir, Aga Khan University, Third National Symposium, September 1996

 

"Does training of Traditional Birth Attendents make an change in their knowledge and practices?" NB Mohammad, A Merchant, Aga Khan University, Third National Symposium, September 1996

 

"Training dais on referral, Gizri, Karachi South". SA Siddiqui, A Merchant, NB Mohamad, Nabeela, Nazima, S Syed, Aga Khan University, Third National Symposium, September 1996

 

"Prevalence and characteristics of areca nut chewers among school children in Baba Island", MA Shah, A Merchant, SP Luby, Aga Khan University, Third National Symposium, September 1996

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

 

Word, Excel and other Windows applications (currently using Windows 95 on LAN)

Data management using Foxpro for Windows

Statistical analysis using EpiInfo, SPSS

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