Ali Ahmed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Ahmed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmed |
| SIGNATURE | AHMED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7894-5875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pharmacists towards chronic kidney disease in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan
“It’s not just HIV anymore”
Long-term survivors (LTS) of HIV are people diagnosed before the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy in 1996 or who have lived with HIV for more than ten years. As they age, many experience comorbidities and effects of lifelong therapy, yet they remain underrepresented in research, which limits person-centered strategies. We examined priorities related to health, aging, safer antiretroviral therapy, community, mental health, and resear…
Natural Disasters and Child Marriage
Bangladesh still has one of the highest rates of child marriage globally, despite nearly a century of legal restrictions. While previous research has identified various drivers of child marriage, the causal impact of natural disasters remains poorly understood. This study provides a causal analysis of how environmental shocks affect child marriage by examining Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh in 2007. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find…
Gender and Lone Parenthood in Rental Housing
We examine how gender and lone parenthood influence access to rental housing opportunities. We outline theoretical mechanisms through which gender and parental status may shape landlord decision-making and hypothesize that women fare better than men overall in the rental housing market, but that the gender advantage reduces once lone parenthood is present. The hypotheses were tested through a correspondence test field experiment where inquiries f…
Intersectionality-Informed HIV Cure-Related Research at the End of Life
Introduction: End-of-life (EOL) HIV cure-related research offers a unique opportunity to advance scientific discovery while honoring the values, dignity, and legacy of people with HIV. However, participation remains demographically skewed, mirroring long-standing inequities in who is informed, invited, and supported to take part. Synthesizing eight years of experience, published literature reviews, and community engagement from the University of …
Consensus Building on Strategies That Address Medical Mistrust to Better Engage Priority Populations in HIV Cure Research
Poor diversity within HIV cure-related trials has been attributed to medical mistrust. Therefore, we sought to identify strategies to overcome medical mistrust to increase participation in HIV cure research in the United States. We used a hybrid Delphi consensus-building process with a panel of multidisciplinary experts in HIV cure research ( n = 54). The panel completed three surveys over time. The panel was organized into six groups: community …
Understanding the walking football population
Walking football attracts a broad player base and may support healthy ageing, even among those with chronic conditions. Greater efforts are needed to improve ethnic representation, but findings support its value as a health-enhancing physical activity option for middle-aged and older adults
Peacebuilding Through Health
Impact of an analytical treatment interruption on partners and family members of trial participants in Durban, South Africa
Background: HIV cure-related research often include analytical treatment interruptions (ATIs), which are monitored pauses in antiretroviral therapy (ART) to determine whether interventions can stimulate viral control without ART. While ATIs have been conducted in high-income countries, scale-up in low-income HIV high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa raise unique ethical, social, and practical challenges. HIV cure-related trials focus on par…
An Efficient Tourism Path Approach Based on Improved Ant Colony Optimization in Hilly Areas
The expansion of the tourism industry has led to the development of various methods to find optimal tourism paths. However, planning tourism paths in hilly areas remains complex and has specific challenges. Different algorithms have been used to plan tourism paths in flat and hilly terrains, including the traditional Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). Although widely used, this algorithm faces a number of limitations due to its slow implementation an…
Curriculum inquiry in times of genocide
This article contextualizes the pervasive silence and complicity within academia regarding the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and settler colonialism. Drawing on Edward Said’s critique of complicit intellectuals, it highlights the failure of many self-proclaimed critical, anti-racist, and decolonial scholars to take a principled stance on Palestine, especially in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The article underscores the …
Acute malnutrition and food insecurity in Yemen, 2021
The ongoing conflict in Yemen, which began in 2014, has led to one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises. The Hudaydah region, located on the Red Sea coast and home to the country’s second-largest port, is critical for the delivery of food and medical supplies. We conducted a two-stage cluster randomised survey to estimate the prevalence of acute malnutrition among children and pregnant and lactating women (PLW). We estimated the prevale…
Residual Adenoid Tissue After Conventional Adenoidectomy and the Role of Intraoperative Nasal Endoscopy
Background/Objectives : Conventional curettage adenoidectomy is widely performed but may leave residual tissue in anatomically hidden nasopharyngeal areas. We evaluated the impact of age and revision status on residual adenoidal tissue after conventional adenoidectomy and assessed outcomes following endoscopic completion. Methods : A prospective cohort study included 178 patients undergoing conventional adenoidectomy followed by intraoperative na…
Determinants of doctor-doctor relationships among academic and clinical staff at a university hospital, Cairo, Egypt
The study's generalizability to Egyptian physicians is limited due to sample convenience, the need for external validation of the DDRWEE score, and potential reporting bias due to the self-administered questionnaire
Sankofa
The long shadow of natural disasters
Utilizes the 1991 cyclone to provide causal evidence on the impact of early-life exposure to natural disasters on education. • Cyclone exposure reduced schooling by one year and lowered secondary school completion rates by 12–19 percentage points. • Educational losses were twice as large for girls, and rural children experienced greater deficits. • Children in less affected districts showed worse outcomes, implying failures in relief allocation. …
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…
Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100
BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys), and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territor…
BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to im…
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…
Redefining Global Trade Networks
Background: Technological breakthroughs, geopolitical realignments, and shifting consumer tastes have all contributed to a radical change in the environment of global trade networks in recent years. A new geography of international trade has emerged as a result of the reshaping of traditional trade routes and patterns. Objective: The purpose of this scholarly paper is to examine and assess the major elements that have contributed to the formation…
High Interest in the Use of mHealth Platform for HIV Prevention among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nepal
Reevaluating Pediatric Osteomyelitis with Osteoarticular Tuberculosis
Timely, accurate diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment are critical to improving outcomes in pediatric osteoarticular TB. Vaccination status and comprehensive diagnostic tools significantly influence disease progression and treatment success. The study underscores the need for enhanced screening and diagnostic methods to prevent delays in treatment
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Religious Context and Prosociality
Are people more prosocial in a religious context? We addressed this question through an experiment. We randomly placed participants in the control group in a neutral location (a lecture hall), and we placed participants in the experimental group in a religious location (a chapel). The participants then took part in a one-shot three-person public goods game, which measured participants' degree of cooperativeness. The results showed that participan…
Co-ethnic preferences in a cooking game
This study examines ethnic preferences using data from the television cooking show Come Dine With Me in Sweden. Amateur chefs compete by hosting dinner parties. Contestants rate each others' performance and the host with the highest ratings wins a cash prize. The show gives an unorthodox opportunity to study ethnic preferences in a high-stakes game environment. The analysis of the collected data shows that native Swedish contestants rate co-ethni…
Cold Start
India's conventional war doctrine has been extensively discussed over the past decade. It has been dubbed Cold Start, though the term has been dropped from usage recently. The article discusses India's limited-war doctrine in its origin, impetus behind it, tenets, and reasons for the current distancing from the doctrine. The doctrine was India's rekindling of its conventional deterrent in the face of Pakistani subconventional proxy warfare. Its i…
Sankofa
Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented with a prospective restaurant establishment on the campus. They then stated whether they would be positive to such an establishment, whether they would be interested in working at the restaurant, and what their reservation wage would be if they were in…
Health consequences of climate change in Bangladesh
Climate change affects almost all aspects of human life, including health. This is particularly true in densely populated and low lying deltas such as Bangladesh. However, the climate‐health nexus is a relatively poorly explored domain of research, which is a cause for concern given the country's intrinsic vulnerability to climatic impacts. The impact of climate change on human health and well‐being can be manifested through different pathways an…
South Asia at the CrossRoads
Internal Security Crises in Punjab, Kashmir and Jaffna
The article argues that the militarised nature of India’s initial reaction to an internal security crisis contributes to deterioration in the situation. The resulting full-blown insurgency, usually complicated by proxy war, takes several years to wind down due to the political prong of strategy not keeping pace with the military prong. This is to the detriment of the legitimacy of the state and exacts a high human price. Learning lessons from Ind…
Cold Start
India's conventional war doctrine has been extensively discussed over the past decade. It has been dubbed Cold Start, though the term has been dropped from usage recently. The article discusses India's limited-war doctrine in its origin, impetus behind it, tenets, and reasons for the current distancing from the doctrine. The doctrine was India's rekindling of its conventional deterrent in the face of Pakistani subconventional proxy warfare. Its i…
Religious Context and Prosociality
Are people more prosocial in a religious context? We addressed this question through an experiment. We randomly placed participants in the control group in a neutral location (a lecture hall), and we placed participants in the experimental group in a religious location (a chapel). The participants then took part in a one-shot three-person public goods game, which measured participants' degree of cooperativeness. The results showed that participan…
Co-ethnic preferences in a cooking game
This study examines ethnic preferences using data from the television cooking show Come Dine With Me in Sweden. Amateur chefs compete by hosting dinner parties. Contestants rate each others' performance and the host with the highest ratings wins a cash prize. The show gives an unorthodox opportunity to study ethnic preferences in a high-stakes game environment. The analysis of the collected data shows that native Swedish contestants rate co-ethni…
Distribution of cause of death in rural Bangladesh during 2003–2010
OBJECTIVE: This study used the InterVA-4 computerised model to assign probable cause of death (CoD) to verbal autopsies (VAs) generated from two rural areas, with a difference in health service provision, within the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance site (HDSS). This study aimed to compare CoD by gender, as well as discussing possible factors which could influence differences in the distribution of CoD between the two areas. DESIGN: Data…
The N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve
We evaluate the N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) using panel quantile regression analysis. We investigate the relationship between CO 2 emissions and GDP per capita for 74 countries over the period of 1994–2012. We include additional explanatory variables, such as renewable energy consumption, technological development, trade, and institutional quality. We find evidence for the N-shaped EKC in all income groups, except for the upper-mid…
Drinking water salinity associated health crisis in coastal Bangladesh
Salinity intrusion in coastal Bangladesh has serious population health implications, which are yet to be clearly understood. The study was undertaken through the ‘Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas’ project in coastal Bangladesh. Drinking water salinity and blood pressure measurements were carried out during the household survey campaign. The study explored association among Socio-Ecologic…
Knowledge, perception and attitude about Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) among medical and pharmacy students of Pakistan
Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic (CCHF) is a deadly tick born disease caused by a virus of genus Nairovirus and is endemic in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Eastern areas of Europe. Pakistan is a CCHF endemic country with a constant threat of sporadic outbreaks. Health care workers are more prone to CCHF, hence, it is a prerequisite for members of the healthcare team to stay abreast with current knowledge and display positive attitude and perception…
Health Implications of Drinking Water Salinity in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Coastal areas in South Asian countries are particularly vulnerable to elevated water salinity. Drinking water salinity has been found to be associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Our study aimed to find if excess drinking water salinity was associated with increased hospital visits with an array of health effects in coastal sub-districts of Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 157 participan…
Health consequences of climate change in Bangladesh
Climate change affects almost all aspects of human life, including health. This is particularly true in densely populated and low lying deltas such as Bangladesh. However, the climate‐health nexus is a relatively poorly explored domain of research, which is a cause for concern given the country's intrinsic vulnerability to climatic impacts. The impact of climate change on human health and well‐being can be manifested through different pathways an…
Comparison of Epidemiological Variations in Covid-19 Patients Inside and Outside of China—A Meta-Analysis
Competence, Confidence, and Gender
We studied the association of individual differences in objective financial knowledge (i.e. competence), subjective financial knowledge (i.e. confidence), numeric ability, and cognitive reflection on a broad set of financial behaviors and feelings towards financial matters. We used a large diverse sample (N = 2063) of the adult Swedish population. We found that both objective and subjective financial knowledge predicted frequent engagement in sou…
Concerns of HIV-positive migrant workers in Covid-19 pandemic
The Problem-Based Learning Approach towards Developing Soft Skills
In this paper, we review systematically the role of problem-based learning (PBL) in developing soft skills in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and other fields of studies. The Systematic Literature Review (SLR) includes the most recent empirical, review, and conceptual studies from TVET and other multiple fields of studies including medicine, humanities, and engineering between the years of 2001 and 2016 collected from four …
Myths and conspiracy theories on vaccines and Covid-19
Stigma, Social Support, Illicit Drug Use, and Other Predictors of Anxiety and Depression Among HIV/Aids Patients in Pakistan
Introduction: Anxiety and depression in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) can lead to non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART), morbidity, and mortality. Therefore, assessing the stigma, social support, and other determinants of anxiety and depression in PLWHA are important for developing further interventions. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted in 505 PLWHA, approached through systematic sampling, who paid r…
Public Knowledge and Practices Regarding Coronavirus Disease 2019
Objectives: Effective mitigation of coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic requires true adoption of precautionary measures by the masses, that primarily depends upon their knowledge and practices behaviors. The current study aimed to assess the knowledge; practices of Pakistani residents regarding COVID-19 and factors associated with adequate knowledge and positive practices. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted …
Vulnerability disclosure mechanisms
Population preferences and attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination
The population's positive attitude should be improved by increasing awareness and eradicating false myths about vaccines through large-scale campaigns
Health-related quality of life and its predictors among adults living with HIV/Aids and receiving antiretroviral therapy in Pakistan
The current findings have shown that PLWHA in Pakistan adherent to ART had a good overall HRQoL, though with significantly higher depression. Some of the factors identified are amenable to institution-based interventions while mitigating depression to enhance the HRQoL of PLWHA in Pakistan. The HRQoL determined in this study could be useful for future economic evaluation studies for ART and in designing future interventions
Sex differences in the care of the fetus in the mother's womb and the neonate on her lap
Valuation of sons over daughters introduces sex-biased health, economic, and socio-demographic inequalities in many societies. This study aims to examine fetus-sex differences in maternity services and sex differences in medical care for terminally ill neonates in Bangladesh, using secondary data from the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), maintained by icddr,b since 1966 along with data from the Bangladesh Maternal Mortali…
Shocks, socio-economic status, and food security across Kenya
This study assessed the association between shocks, socio-economic factors, and household food security across Kenya, and provided policy implications for achieving the Zero Hunger goal at national and local levels in Kenya. We analysed the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey 2015–16 data for 24 000 households by employing regression models. Our multiple findings show that: (a) half of the surveyed population across Kenya were food insecure;…
Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented with a prospective restaurant establishment on the campus. They then stated whether they would be positive to such an establishment, whether they would be interested in working at the restaurant, and what their reservation wage would be if they were in…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
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