Saeed Ahmed

Biographic Data

ID3983952
NAMESaeed Ahmed
GIVEN NAMESSaeed
FAMILY NAMEAhmed
SIGNATUREAHMED S
AFFILIATIONSBaylor College of Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-9680-4553
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Effect of a digital training package on clinical outcomes in Malawi’s index case testing programme

    Open AccessNora E Rosenberg, Nora Rosenberg et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Training health workers is a common implementation strategy to expand evidence-based interventions. Digital training is a promising way of reaching more health workers, minimising clinical interruptions and lowering costs, but clinical outcomes are rarely evaluated in low-income settings. Clinical outcomes were evaluated in Malawi's HIV index case testing programme through the Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Imple…

  • Supporting Muslim students during Ramadan

    Open AccessMatthew Bowker, Hosna Motamedian et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2026

    Dear EditorWe work at one of the UK’s newest medical schools, where a high proportion of our students are Muslim. As we approach Ramadan, we reflect on what we can do to support them.Ramadan is the

  • Engage less, provide more

    Open AccessArman Majidulla, Marium Sultan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Pakistan has 40 Super High Risk Union Councils (SHRUCs) where polio has been persistently endemic, and community relationships have been a persistent challenge due to campaign fatigue and violent, organised resistance. This study aimed to gather perspectives from frontline workers in these areas to improve community engagement. We conducted participant observation, over 100 interviews, and held Human-centred Design inspired sessions with 171 team…

  • Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Stein Emil Vollset et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses an important global health challenge in the 21st century. A previous study has quantified the global and regional burden of AMR for 2019, followed with additional publications that provided more detailed estimates for several WHO regions by country. To date, there have been no studies that produce comprehensive estimates of AMR burden across locations that encompass historical trends and future for…

  • Informing the UK Muslim Community on Organ Donation

    Open AccessOmar M E Ali, Eleftherios Gkekas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2023

    There is a significant shortage of transplantable organs in the UK particularly from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups, of which Muslims make a large proportion. The British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) held a nationwide series of community gatherings with the aim of describing the beliefs and attitudes to organ donation amongst British Muslims and evaluate the efficacy of a national public health programme on views and uncerta…

  • How to eradicate polio in Pakistan

    Open AccessMarium Sultan, Svea Closser et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Pakistan, along with Afghanistan, is one of two countries where wild poliovirus is still endemic. Frontline workers (FLWs) are the staff most intimately familiar with both implementation challenges and community context. Harnessing their expertise may be a way to improve the community-polio program interface, which has been a persistent and shifting challenge in polio-endemic areas of both countries. From 2020–2022, we engaged frontline workers i…

  • Phone-based psychosocial counseling for people living with HIV

    Open AccessCarrie M Cox, Steven Masiano et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2023

    People living with HIV experience psychosocial needs that often are not addressed. We designed an innovative low-resource model of phone-based psychosocial counseling (P-PSC). We describe cohort characteristics, acceptability, feasibility and utilization of P-PSC at health facilities supported by Baylor Foundation Malawi. Staff were virtually oriented at 120 sites concurrently. From facility-based phones, people with new HIV diagnosis, high viral…

  • Prevention of suicides associated with global warming

    Open AccessSheikh Shoib, Syed Sameer Hussaini et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    Climate change poses significant challenges to global mental health, with potential consequences including increased rates of suicide and mental health disorders. Early Career Psychiatrists (ECPs) play a crucial role in addressing these challenges. The Climate Psychiatry Alliance, a group of psychiatrists dedicated to improving mental health amidst climate change, recognizes the importance of cultivating climate-aware ECPs. Training ECPs to becom…

  • Beyond physical health

    Open AccessLakshit Jain, Siddhi Bhivandkar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    The review underscores the negative impact of stigma on COVID-19 patients, survivors, and the general population. Addressing stigma and psychosocial challenges is crucial to effectively manage the current pandemic and to prevent similar challenges during future public health crises

  • Impact of cannabidiol on reward- and stress-related neurocognitive processes among individuals with opioid use disorder

    Open AccessJoji Suzuki, Sara Prostko et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04982029

  • Models of lifelong care for children and adolescents with chronic conditions in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessLindsey K Reif, J Van Olmen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) or chronic conditions account for one-third of disability-adjusted life-years among children and adolescents under the age of 20. Health systems must adapt to respond to the growing burden of NCDs among children and adolescents who are more likely to be marginalised from healthcare access and are at higher risk for poor outcomes. We undertook a review of recent literature on existing models of chronic li…

  • Perceived stigma, discrimination and psychological problems among patients with epilepsy

    Open AccessNajma Iqbal Malik, Rabia Fatima et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Stigma is significantly higher in epileptic patients and has a detrimental effect on the patient's quality of life, recovery, and prognosis. Thus, there is undoubtedly a need to address psychological issues, most notably the stigma associated with illnesses. Psychologists, psychiatrists, other physicians, and care givers of epileptic patients must pay close attention to the stigma in this patient population

  • Chemical compositions and pharmacological activities of natural musk (Moschus) and artificial musk

    Open AccessShuquan Lv, Zhixin Lei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2022

  • HTTP

    Open AccessSaeed Ahmed, Muhammad IqbalARTICLEHabibia Islamicus2021

    Imam Abdul Wahab Sha'rani (3 AH) and Shah Waliullah (3 AH) made it clear by unveiling the history of jurisprudential differences, its status and nature and the wisdom hidden in them that this difference is not only legitimate and praiseworthy, but also it is a convenience and relief for the Ummah. Both sought common ground from the schools of jurisprudence in general and from the four religions (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali) in particular…

  • Video-Based Intervention for Improving Maternal Retention and Adherence to HIV Treatment

    Open AccessSteven Masiano, Edwin Machine et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    VITAL Start is a video-based intervention aimed to improve maternal retention in HIV care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi. We explored the experiences of pregnant women living with HIV (PWLHIV) not yet on ART who received VITAL Start before ART initiation to assess the intervention's acceptability, feasibility, fidelity of delivery, and perceived impact. Between February and September 2019, we conducted semi-structured int…

  • Concentrations, pollution indices and health risk assessment of heavy metals in road dust from two urbanized cities of Pakistan

    Open AccessAbdul Qadeer, Zulfiqar Ahmad Saqib et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2020

  • Scaling the great wall

    Open AccessSanya Virani, Tianxu Xia et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2020

    Background: Racial and ethnic minorities (such as Chinese-speaking (CS)) are known to have less equitable access to mental health services than Caucasians. These disparities have a powerful influence on minority groups that already endure a greater burden from mental health needs. Aim: The aim was to identify perceived provider barriers to care for CS patients. Methods: The study involved an 11-item web-based survey to multidisciplinary health pr…

  • Vital Start

    Open AccessMaria H Kim, Saeed Ahmed et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2019

  • Kratom Withdrawal

    Cornel N Stanciu, Samantha A Gnanasegaram et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2019

  • Aman ki Asha (a desire for peace)

    Saeed Ahmed, Saeed Ahmed RidARTICLEContemporary South Asia2019Cited by: 2References: 2

    Aman ki Asha is a joint initiative of the two leading media groups of India and Pakistan, The Times of India and the Jang Group of publications, which uses media cooperation for promoting people-to-people contacts and building peace. This is a unique initiative because in the history of peacebuilding, never before the mainstream media houses of conflicting communities are involved in such a peace initiative. Generally local media is seen inflamin…

  • Efficacy and Safety of Varenicline for Smoking Cessation in Schizophrenia

    Open AccessSaeed Ahmed, Sanya Virani et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2018

    Objective: Smoking represents a major public health problem among patients with schizophrenia. To this end, some studies have investigated the efficacy of varenicline for facilitating smoking cessation in schizophrenia patients. The present review seeks to synthesize the results of these studies as well as document the reported side effects of using this medication. Methods: An electronic search was performed using five major databases: PubMed, S…

  • Local government dissolution in Karachi

    Alison Brown, Saeed AhmedARTICLEThird World Thematics A TWQ Journal2016Cited by: 3References: 10

    Karachi’s history has left a city riven by tribal, ethnic and sectarian divisions, which exhibits dimensions of fragility typical of ‘post-conflict’ cities. Pakistan has faced many challenges in establishing transparent government, and local government dissolution in 2009 led to a rapid increase in informal service provision, ghettoisation of low-income settlements, as sectarian violence left large parts of the city ungovernable. Through a case s…

  • Abstracts and Reviews

    Open AccessSaeed Ahmed, S Haroon AhmedARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…1981

    PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : Mme. Chanti, Un Cas de Pathologie Mentale dans un Milieu LAO Traditionnel (Mrs. Chanthi, a Psycho-Pathological Case in a Traditional Lao Environment). Ethnopsychiatrica 2 (1979): 37-47; Da la Symbolique Hysterique LAO a Propos d'un Cas de Phi-Pop (Laotian Hysterical Symbolism, a Phi-Pop Case). Ethnopsychiatrica 2 (1979): 49-77. Both by Amphay Dore

  • In the wake of disaster

    Saeed Ahmed

    In the wake of disaster: Islamists, the state and a social contract in Pakistan." Contemporary South Asia, 27(4), pp. 569–570