Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya MBBS, MPH, MBA, DrPH

Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya has 15 years’ experience in global health specifically monitoring, evaluation, and research with a focus on health systems, health security, and infectious diseases. Shaffi comes with several years of teaching and mentoring experience, advocacy and health communication experiences, and experiences with diverse health systems, institutions, and governments. He has received training in medicine, public health, leadership, policy, and management. His research includes antimicrobial resistance, inclusive of the appropriate use of antibiotics and its determinants and related policy and program interventions; global health security and infectious diseases, with a special focus on country and health system response; and social determinants of health (SDoH) and health equity, with particular attention paid to the availability and use of SDoH data in decision-making. In addition, he uses implementation science research to inform global health policies, decisions, and practices.

Media Coverage

05 Dec 2022

Deccan Herald: Over 75% Indians with hypertension have uncontrolled blood pressure: Lancet study

Deccan Herald reports our meta-analysis ...

10 Dec 2022

The Times of India: 75% with hypertension have uncontrolled blood pressure

The Times of India reports our Lancet paper on hypertension control in ...

05 Dec 2022

BBC Special discussion: How to tackle India’s pill-popping culture

BBC Discussion on our Lancet ...

10 Dec 2022

The Hindu: Hypertension control improves in India, but undiagnosed condition a concern, says Lancet study.

The Hindu reports our Lancet ...

20 Jan 2023

The researchers at Boston University, US and Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, examined the private sector antibiotic use, which contributes to 85–90 per cent of the total consumption in India.

A new research conducted by the The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia has found out that ...

05 Feb 2023

Glaring regional differences exist in India's hypertension control.

Business Standard reports our Lancet ...

21 Feb 2023

New publication. A Systematic Review of Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

A Systematic Review of Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean ...

05 Dec 2022

Outlook: High Rate Of Antibiotic Prescription

Outlook India reports our BMJ Open study on Typhoid ...

11 Dec 2022

The Times of India: Kerala shows the way in antibiotic use

Times of India reports our study published in JAC ...

11 Dec 2022

CIDRAP: Private-sector antibiotic use falls in India, but inappropriate use rises

CIDRAP Stewardship / Resistance Scan reports our JAC AMR paper ...

05 Dec 2022

The Hindu: Allow only pilgrims from Kerala at Sabarimala this season

The Hindu reports our study: Allow only pilgrims from Kerala at Sabarimala this season, say ...

IMA helpline number for report sound abuse in Public place

Heat and illnesses

Cancer care at community level

Discussion on Sabarimala mass gathering

DOTS X-rayed

Over 47% of antibiotics used in India’s private sector in 2019 were not approved by a central drug regulator, a study published in medical journal The Lancet has found.

Most of the illness are for a day or two, some of us are tolerant we rest and we are fine but some of them who aren’t use most common medications on their will without even consulting a doctor.

Doctors Association Kashmir President Dr Nisar ul Hassan on recent Lancet study on antibiotic abuse in India.

Medi Talk

A live tele- health talk with experts in medical and public health field.

Public Health Biographies

A series of interviews exploring the past, present, and future of public health- presenting some of the stalwarts in public health.

Dr N Devadasan is the co-founder and director of Institute of Public Health, Bangalore
Prof. N K Ganguly was the Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (1998-2007)
Dr Cheriyan Varghese works as cross-cutting lead for NCD and special initiatives at WHO, Geneva.
Public health biography: Episode 13- Prof T K Sundari Ravindran
Prof Howard Waitzkin
Public health biographies-1: Prof. B Ekbal, Neurosurgeon, public health activist, writer. 26June2021