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Dr Bilal Iqbal

Clinical Associate Professor

United Kingdom

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+44 (0)20 7612

I am a medical doctor, epidemiologist and public health practitioner with extensive experience over 25 years in Asian and African countries, including India, Pakistan, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Nigeria. I offer a broad base of expertise in several complementary areas of research and postgraduate teaching, including mother and child health (MCH) and health system research, especially improving service delivery in low- and middle-income countries

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Teaching

-Departmental Research Degree Coordinator

- Co-Programme director for DL Epidemiology-

- Module Co-organiser for Social Epidemiology

- Regularly delivers lectures and conducts tutorials

- Personal tutor to students in MSc Global Mental Health.

- Supervising MSc student projects.

- On the examination board for Public Health for Development.

Research

The focus of my research has been implementation science and operational research: and I am particularly interested in developing and evaluating health system interventions to provide quality of care evidence for research-based decisions underpinning maternal and child health policies and services.

Research Area
Child health
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Health services
Health workers
Impact evaluation
Maternal health
Epidemiology
Operational research
Psychology
Implementation science
Disease and Health Conditions
Disability
Malnutrition
Mental health
Sepsis
Infectious diseases
Country
Ethiopia
India
Nigeria
Pakistan
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Maternal time investment in caregiving activities to promote early childhood development: evidence from rural India.
Batura, N; ROY, R; Aziz, S; Sharma, K; Kumar, D; Verma, D; Correa Ossa, A; Spinola, P; SOREMEKUN, S; Sikander, S; Zafar, S; Divan, G; Hill, Z; Avan, BI; Rahman, A; KIRKWOOD, B; Skordis, J;
2023
Frontiers in pediatrics
Promoting Supportive and Respectful Maternity Care in Public Health Facilities in Sindh, Pakistan: A Theory-Informed Health System Intervention.
Avan, BI; Hameed, W; Khan, B; Asim, M; Saleem, S; Siddiqi, S;
2023
Global health, science and practice
Can home visits for early child development be implemented with sufficient coverage and quality at scale? Evidence from the SPRING program in India and Pakistan.
Hill, Z; Zafar, S; SOREMEKUN, S; Sikander, S; Avan, BI; ROY, R; Aziz, S; Kumar, D; Parveen, N; Saleem, S; Verma, D; Sharma, KK; Skordis, J; Hafeez, A; Rahman, A; KIRKWOOD, B; Divan, G;
2023
Frontiers in nutrition
Effect of the SPRING home visits intervention on early child development and growth in rural India and Pakistan: parallel cluster randomised controlled trials.
KIRKWOOD, BR; Sikander, S; ROY, R; SOREMEKUN, S; Bhopal, SS; Avan, B; Lingam, R; Gram, L; Amenga-Etego, S; Khan, B; Aziz, S; Kumar, D; Verma, D; Sharma, KK; Panchal, SN; Zafar, S; Skordis, J; Batura, N; Hafeez, A; Hill, Z; Divan, G; Rahman, A;
2023
Frontiers in nutrition
Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana.
Danso, SO; MANU, A; Fenty, J; Amanga-Etego, S; Avan, BI; Newton, S; SOREMEKUN, S; KIRKWOOD, B;
2023
Emerging themes in epidemiology
Socioeconomic inequity in coverage and quality of maternal postnatal care in Ethiopia.
BEAUMONT, E; BERHANU, D; ALLEN, E; SCHELLENBERG, J; Avan, BI;
2022
Tropical medicine & international health
Impact of COVID-19 on mental health of primary healthcare workers in Pakistan: lessons from a qualitative inquiry.
Hameed, W; Avan, BI; Feroz, AS; Khan, B; Fatmi, Z; Jafri, H; Wassan, MA; Siddiqi, S;
2022
BMJ open
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