Usman Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3735677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Usman Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Usman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Edward Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2039-1630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluating the digital dispensation of HIV self-testing (HIVST) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan: Seeing through the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) lens
HIV self-testing (HIVST) has recently been introduced through a digital platform for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan, where they can order and receive OraQuick HIVST via mail. The current study aimed to evaluate the digital dispensation of HIVST to the MSM community in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews with MSM who availed HIVST services were conducted through in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs). Participa…
Development Citizenship in the Age of Terror: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement in Pakistan
Many lessons might be learnt about the borderland as a transnational place in the Global South in our era of paranoid hyper-nationalism. Gramsci’s insights teach us that the rehabilitation of a dissident population as a preventative measure by militaries is no different when it comes to combating the ‘first elements’ of insurgency. This article examines the response to these measures by a single social movement that has been borrowing development…
Sexualized drug use, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among men who have sex with men in Pakistan: Results of a multi-center cross-sectional survey
Section 377 of the Pakistan Penal Code penalizes same-sex behavior with life imprisonment. There is a high degree of religious stigma against men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan. The social and legal framework adds to the minority stress for MSM in Pakistan. We conducted a cross-sectional study aimed at examining the association of amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and their association with suicid…
Capacity needs of Pakistani psychiatrists to deliver community-sensitive mental health services to sexual minority men
Sexual minorities face a high degree of social and religious stigma in Pakistan. The current study aims to identify the capacity needs of the psychiatry fraternity for providing person-centered care to sexual minority men in Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted from May 2024 to October 2024. Four consultant psychiatrists (CP), nine postgraduate residents (PGR) in psychiatry, and eight sexual minority men (SM) were interviewed. …
Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Childhood Protective Factors (CPF) on physical and mental health of medical students of a public sector medical university
The current study aimed to assess the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Childhood Protective Factors (CPF) on physical and mental health of medical students of a public sector medical university. An online cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at a public sector medical university in Lahore, Pakistan from 1 June 2024 to 30 August 2024. The study tool consisted of sociodemographic questions, an Adverse Childhood Experie…
Factors, practices and health needs of men who have sex with men, transgender and female sex workers engaged in sexualized drug use in Pakistan
The objective of the study is to explore factors, practices, and health needs of men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG), and female sex workers (FSW) engaged in sexualized drug use in Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted from August 2024 to December 2024. Community-based organization (CBO) staff (stakeholders) for MSM, TG, and FSW, as well as self-identified MSM, TG, and FSW who have engaged in SDU previously or curr…
Education, leadership and diaspora: A scoping review of conceptualisations of women’s practice in marginalised communities of Australia and England
This paper is a scoping review of literature exploring the range and nature of research activity regarding women leading education within marginalized communities in Australia and England. Such practice of women’s educational leadership regularly occurs beyond formal constructs of schooling, and is often immersed in the vulnerabilities of indigenous, diasporic and other marginalized populations, yet remains invisible in scholarship on leading edu…
Prevalence and predictors of depressive symptoms among people living with HIV in Pakistan; country-wide secondary data analysis from National Stigma Index Study
The objective of this analysis is to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms and its predictors in the national cohort of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Pakistan. This is a secondary data analysis of the National Stigma Index Study 2.0. We screened PLHIV in the Stigma Index study for depressive symptoms using the Urdu version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. We used stepwise multiple linear regression to identify predictors …
Ethnoveterinary utilization of medicinal plants in Ghamot National Park Western Himalayas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
Background: The local communities in Pakistan possess extensive traditional knowledge about indigenous medicinal plants, which has been passed down through generations for centuries. However, this invaluable ethnic knowledge is currently facing a threat to its preservation. In Pakistan, research on medicinal plants predominantly centers on documenting the local flora and its applications. The indigenous population, with ancestral wisdom, holds tr…
Financial Literacy and Adoption of Fintech: The Role of Financial Risk Tolerance
Fintech is one of the novelty in the area of finance, it's a collaboration of finance and technology. Now a day's technology has become a significant part of the financial industry. Major products and services of Fintech include ATM, peer to peer lending, crowdfunding, and cryptocurrency. Understanding of financial terminology and acceptance of related risk of Fintech products and services are important. In that concern financial literacy and ris…
Limiting the Collection of Ground Truth Data for Land Use and Land Cover Maps with Machine Learning Algorithms
Land use and land cover (LULC) classification maps help understand the state and trends of agricultural production and provide insights for applications in environmental monitoring. One of the major downfalls of the LULC technique is inherently linked to its need for ground truth data to cross-validate maps. This paper aimed at evaluating the efficiency of machine learning (ML) in limiting the use of ground truth data for LULC maps. This was acco…
Dynamics of international trade, technology innovation and environmental sustainability: Evidence from Asia by accounting for cross-sectional dependence
This study explores the mechanism of how trade openness (TO) affects CO2 emissions via the scale and technique effects in the Asian region over the 1990–2015 period. The results obtained by employing cross-sectional augmented estimators indicate that: (i) trade-induced technology innovation (TI) reduces CO2 emissions; (ii) trade-facilitated economic growth results in higher CO2 emissions; (iii) the positive scale effect outweighs the negative tec…
Phytodiversity and Ethnobotanical Features of Plants of Shahbaz Garhi Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Background: Plants provide food, clothing, shelter, medicines, fodder, fuel wood and ecosystem services. The floristic diversity of any area plays an important role in the sustainable livelihood and food security of the inhabitants of that area. The people of the research area Shahbaz Garhi, District Mardan are living in the far flung and backward area. They are dependent on plants and plants products for supporting their livelihood and other nee…
Association Between Abundance of Haemophilus in the Gut Microbiota and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Increasing evidence indicates an interaction between dysbiosis of the microbiota and the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. However, limited information is available on the specific microbial communities associated with symptoms of schizophrenia. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate gut microbiota dysbiosis and its relationship with psychopathologies in schizophrenia. We recruited 126 participants and divided them into three groups according to…
Immunomodulation of Chinese Herbal Medicines on NK cell populations for cancer therapy: A systematic review
Like a Hair Drawn from Flour: Everyday Militarization and Female Recruitment for Church Security Teams in Pakistan
This article considers what motivates Christian women in Pakistan to volunteer for security teams that protect their religious communities from political violence. Our qualitative data show how the acquisition of manpower—namely the military's capacity to enlist support from civil society—has also shaped these subaltern groups into informal specialists on violence. School caterers, homemakers, laborers, garment factory stitchers, sanitary workers…
Nannorrhops ritchieana (Griff.) Aitch. (Arecaceae) – a traditional multipurpose plant species of Pakistan
Background: Traditional knowledge pertaining to the indigenous uses of N. ritchieana has been poorly documented, despite the ethnobotanical studies conducted in various parts of Pakistan. This report comprises traditional knowledge pertaining to the use of N. ritchieana in Tribal District Kurram, Pakistan.Methods:Ethnobotanical information on N. ritchieana use was obtained by interviewing 50 Mazari product manufacturers in Tribal District Kurram …
Education as self-government: The Minhaj Education Society's answer to managing violence in Pakistan
Development thinking and planning consistently identify religious markers of self-development as inimical to social cohesion in the Global South. Practitioners in the field see any educational philosophy that emphasises the disciplined formation of character by non-secular means as an undesirable reaction to modernisation. Religious or madrasa education is identified as an intrinsically regressive aspect of the indigenous social order that limits…
Ranging and foraging of Himalayan grey langurs (Semnopithecus ajax) in Machiara National Park, Pakistan
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Ranging and foraging of Himalayan grey langurs (Semnopithecus ajax) in Machiara National Park, Pakistan
Education as self-government: The Minhaj Education Society's answer to managing violence in Pakistan
Development thinking and planning consistently identify religious markers of self-development as inimical to social cohesion in the Global South. Practitioners in the field see any educational philosophy that emphasises the disciplined formation of character by non-secular means as an undesirable reaction to modernisation. Religious or madrasa education is identified as an intrinsically regressive aspect of the indigenous social order that limits…
Nannorrhops ritchieana (Griff.) Aitch. (Arecaceae) – a traditional multipurpose plant species of Pakistan
Background: Traditional knowledge pertaining to the indigenous uses of N. ritchieana has been poorly documented, despite the ethnobotanical studies conducted in various parts of Pakistan. This report comprises traditional knowledge pertaining to the use of N. ritchieana in Tribal District Kurram, Pakistan.Methods:Ethnobotanical information on N. ritchieana use was obtained by interviewing 50 Mazari product manufacturers in Tribal District Kurram …
Dynamics of international trade, technology innovation and environmental sustainability: Evidence from Asia by accounting for cross-sectional dependence
This study explores the mechanism of how trade openness (TO) affects CO2 emissions via the scale and technique effects in the Asian region over the 1990–2015 period. The results obtained by employing cross-sectional augmented estimators indicate that: (i) trade-induced technology innovation (TI) reduces CO2 emissions; (ii) trade-facilitated economic growth results in higher CO2 emissions; (iii) the positive scale effect outweighs the negative tec…
Phytodiversity and Ethnobotanical Features of Plants of Shahbaz Garhi Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Background: Plants provide food, clothing, shelter, medicines, fodder, fuel wood and ecosystem services. The floristic diversity of any area plays an important role in the sustainable livelihood and food security of the inhabitants of that area. The people of the research area Shahbaz Garhi, District Mardan are living in the far flung and backward area. They are dependent on plants and plants products for supporting their livelihood and other nee…
Association Between Abundance of Haemophilus in the Gut Microbiota and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Increasing evidence indicates an interaction between dysbiosis of the microbiota and the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. However, limited information is available on the specific microbial communities associated with symptoms of schizophrenia. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate gut microbiota dysbiosis and its relationship with psychopathologies in schizophrenia. We recruited 126 participants and divided them into three groups according to…
Immunomodulation of Chinese Herbal Medicines on NK cell populations for cancer therapy: A systematic review
Like a Hair Drawn from Flour: Everyday Militarization and Female Recruitment for Church Security Teams in Pakistan
This article considers what motivates Christian women in Pakistan to volunteer for security teams that protect their religious communities from political violence. Our qualitative data show how the acquisition of manpower—namely the military's capacity to enlist support from civil society—has also shaped these subaltern groups into informal specialists on violence. School caterers, homemakers, laborers, garment factory stitchers, sanitary workers…
Financial Literacy and Adoption of Fintech: The Role of Financial Risk Tolerance
Fintech is one of the novelty in the area of finance, it's a collaboration of finance and technology. Now a day's technology has become a significant part of the financial industry. Major products and services of Fintech include ATM, peer to peer lending, crowdfunding, and cryptocurrency. Understanding of financial terminology and acceptance of related risk of Fintech products and services are important. In that concern financial literacy and ris…
Limiting the Collection of Ground Truth Data for Land Use and Land Cover Maps with Machine Learning Algorithms
Land use and land cover (LULC) classification maps help understand the state and trends of agricultural production and provide insights for applications in environmental monitoring. One of the major downfalls of the LULC technique is inherently linked to its need for ground truth data to cross-validate maps. This paper aimed at evaluating the efficiency of machine learning (ML) in limiting the use of ground truth data for LULC maps. This was acco…
Prevalence and predictors of depressive symptoms among people living with HIV in Pakistan; country-wide secondary data analysis from National Stigma Index Study
The objective of this analysis is to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms and its predictors in the national cohort of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Pakistan. This is a secondary data analysis of the National Stigma Index Study 2.0. We screened PLHIV in the Stigma Index study for depressive symptoms using the Urdu version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. We used stepwise multiple linear regression to identify predictors …
Ethnoveterinary utilization of medicinal plants in Ghamot National Park Western Himalayas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
Background: The local communities in Pakistan possess extensive traditional knowledge about indigenous medicinal plants, which has been passed down through generations for centuries. However, this invaluable ethnic knowledge is currently facing a threat to its preservation. In Pakistan, research on medicinal plants predominantly centers on documenting the local flora and its applications. The indigenous population, with ancestral wisdom, holds tr…
Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Childhood Protective Factors (CPF) on physical and mental health of medical students of a public sector medical university
The current study aimed to assess the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Childhood Protective Factors (CPF) on physical and mental health of medical students of a public sector medical university. An online cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at a public sector medical university in Lahore, Pakistan from 1 June 2024 to 30 August 2024. The study tool consisted of sociodemographic questions, an Adverse Childhood Experie…
Factors, practices and health needs of men who have sex with men, transgender and female sex workers engaged in sexualized drug use in Pakistan
The objective of the study is to explore factors, practices, and health needs of men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG), and female sex workers (FSW) engaged in sexualized drug use in Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted from August 2024 to December 2024. Community-based organization (CBO) staff (stakeholders) for MSM, TG, and FSW, as well as self-identified MSM, TG, and FSW who have engaged in SDU previously or curr…
Education, leadership and diaspora: A scoping review of conceptualisations of women’s practice in marginalised communities of Australia and England
This paper is a scoping review of literature exploring the range and nature of research activity regarding women leading education within marginalized communities in Australia and England. Such practice of women’s educational leadership regularly occurs beyond formal constructs of schooling, and is often immersed in the vulnerabilities of indigenous, diasporic and other marginalized populations, yet remains invisible in scholarship on leading edu…
Evaluating the digital dispensation of HIV self-testing (HIVST) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan: Seeing through the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) lens
HIV self-testing (HIVST) has recently been introduced through a digital platform for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan, where they can order and receive OraQuick HIVST via mail. The current study aimed to evaluate the digital dispensation of HIVST to the MSM community in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews with MSM who availed HIVST services were conducted through in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs). Participa…
Development Citizenship in the Age of Terror: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement in Pakistan
Many lessons might be learnt about the borderland as a transnational place in the Global South in our era of paranoid hyper-nationalism. Gramsci’s insights teach us that the rehabilitation of a dissident population as a preventative measure by militaries is no different when it comes to combating the ‘first elements’ of insurgency. This article examines the response to these measures by a single social movement that has been borrowing development…
Sexualized drug use, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among men who have sex with men in Pakistan: Results of a multi-center cross-sectional survey
Section 377 of the Pakistan Penal Code penalizes same-sex behavior with life imprisonment. There is a high degree of religious stigma against men who have sex with men (MSM) in Pakistan. The social and legal framework adds to the minority stress for MSM in Pakistan. We conducted a cross-sectional study aimed at examining the association of amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and their association with suicid…
Capacity needs of Pakistani psychiatrists to deliver community-sensitive mental health services to sexual minority men
Sexual minorities face a high degree of social and religious stigma in Pakistan. The current study aims to identify the capacity needs of the psychiatry fraternity for providing person-centered care to sexual minority men in Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted from May 2024 to October 2024. Four consultant psychiatrists (CP), nine postgraduate residents (PGR) in psychiatry, and eight sexual minority men (SM) were interviewed. …
Geography (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Agroforestry (3 works) · Botanical Research and Chemistry (3 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (3 works)