Dr. Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya MBBS, MPH

Honorary Research Professor

Dr. Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya is a Research Fellow with the Boston University School of Public Health, USA, and supports the Rockefeller Foundation- Boston University 3D Commission. He is a physician by training and holds master's degreein public health and business administration.He has worked for the World Health Organization India country office,Medecins Sans Frontieres, and the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia on a range of public health portfolios including polio eradication, tuberculosis and visceral leishmaniasis elimination, and acute malnutrition in children. He was the Indian lead for the African Development Bank-funded multi-country multi-year project that supported public-private partnerships in Africa's health sector. He has taught epidemiology and research methods for public health and preventive medicine post graduate residents in India and Saudi Arabia. Most recently, Dr. Koya was a consultant to the Secretariat of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness established by the WHO Director-General, and the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean to evaluate outbreak rapid response teams.

 

Books
African Development Bank Group (2017). Developing coordinated public-private partnerships and systems for financing health in Africa- Experiences from Africa and India (Chapter on Public private partnerships in India). Available at https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WITS-AfDB_Publication.pdf

Reports
⦁ World Health Organization Regional office for Eastern Mediterranean (2021). Rapid Response Teams in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. An evaluation of the country level capacities, operations, and capabilities.
⦁ World Health Organization. Regional office for southeast Asia (2021). Integrated Care for Tuberculosis (TB) and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in India: Health System Challenges and Opportunities.
⦁ World Health Organization Country Office for India (‎2015)‎. Surgical workforce in India: what the state of Kerala tells us about the production, stock, and migration of the health workforce. WHO Country Office for India

Policy documents
⦁ Editor, IMA Kerala State Policy document on control of Diabetes in Kerala, 2016
⦁ Editor, IMA Kerala State Guidelines on safe and healthy food, 2014

Journal articles
⦁ Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya, Jinbert Lordson, Salman Khan et. al. Tuberculosis and Diabetes in India: stakeholder perspectives on health system challenges and opportunities for integrated care. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health (in press)
⦁ Abdalla SM, Koya SF, Jamieson M, et al. Investing in trust and community resilience: lessons from the early months of the first digital pandemic. BMJ. Published online November 28, 2021:e067487. doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-067487
⦁ ‌Torres I, Thapa B, Robbins G, Koya SF et al. Data Sources for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health: Examples from Two Middle-Income Countries: the 3-D Commission. Journal of Urban Health. Published online September 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00558-7
⦁ Pilakkadavath Z, Rao A, Nayar Kr, Kumar R, Koya S. India needs a resilient cancer program. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. 2021;10(8):2735. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34660397/
⦁ ‌Maani, N., Robbins, G., Koya, S.F. et al. Energy, Data, and Decision-Making: a Scoping Review—the 3D Commission. J Urban Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00563-w
⦁ Biermann, O., Koya, S.F., Corkish, C. et al. Food, Big Data, and Decision-making: a Scoping Review—the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00562-x
⦁ Nair, A.T., Nayar, K.R., Koya, S.F. et al. Social media, vaccine hesitancy and trust deficit in immunization programs: a qualitative enquiry in Malappuram District of Kerala, India. Health Res Policy Sys 19, 56 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00698-x
⦁ Thapa, B., Torres, I., Koya, S.F. et al. Use of Data to Understand the Social Determinants of Depression in Two Middle‐Income Countries: the 3‐D Commission. J Urban Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00559-6
⦁ Koya SF, Nayar KR, Rao AP, Bhat LD. Health achieving societies: Past discourses, present predilections, and possible future contradictions. J Public Health Prim Care [serial online] 2021 [cited 2021 May 31]; 2:1-5. Available from: http://www.jphpc.com/text.asp?2021/2/1/1/312696
⦁ Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya, Shahul Ebrahim, Lekha D. Bhat, Bindhya Vijayan et al. COVID-19 and comorbidities: Audit of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in India. 2020 [cited 2021 Mar 21]; Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. https://www.atlantis-press.com/journals/jegh/125953890/view
⦁ Ebrahim SH, Ali A, Koya SF, Abdulla M, Binub K, Haridasan RK, et al. Focus on international and domestic travelers are equally important for successful SARS-COV-2 mitigation: ecological comparison of emigrant and migrant travel patterns and COVID-19 trends in Kerala State, India. Journal of Travel Medicine [Internet]. 2021 Jan 18 [cited 2021 Feb 18]; Available from: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jtm/taab003/6103814
⦁ ‌Bahuleyan CG, Namboodiri N, Jabir A, , Shaffi Muhammed et al. One-year clinical outcome of patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from KERALA-AF registry. Indian Heart Journal. Published online December 2020. doi:10.1016/j.ihj.2020.11.152
⦁ Nayar KR, Koya SF, Ramakrishnan V, et al. Call to avert acceleration of COVID-19 from India’s Sabarimala pilgrimage of 25 million devotees. Journal of Travel Medicine. September 2020. doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa153
⦁ ‌Rajendrakumar AL, Nair ATN, Nangia C, , , Muhammed Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya et al. Epidemic Landscape and Forecasting of SARS-CoV-2 in India. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 2020. doi:10.2991/jegh.k.200823.001
⦁ Verma VR, Saini A, Gandhi S, Dash U, Koya SF. Capacity-need gap in hospital resources for varying mitigation and containment strategies in India in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. Infectious Disease Modelling. 2020;5:608-621. doi:10.1016/j.idm.2020.08.011
⦁ ‌Rajasekharan Nayar K, Fazaludeen Koya S, Mohandas K, et al. Public health implications of Sabarimala mass gathering in India: A multi-dimensional analysis, Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020;101783. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101783
⦁ Kumar A, Rajasekharan Nayar K, Koya SF. COVID-19: Challenges and its consequences for rural health care in India. Public Health in Practice 2020;1:100009. doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100009
⦁ Visweswaran K, Shaffi M, Mathew P, et al. Quality of Life of End Stage Renal Disease Patients Undergoing Dialysis in Southern Part of Kerala, India: Financial Stability and Inter-dialysis Weight Gain as Key Determinants. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 2020. doi:10.2991/jegh.k.200716.001
⦁ Charantharayil Gopalan B, Namboodiri N, Abdullakutty,…., Muhammed Shaffi, J Kerala AF Registry Investigators, et al. Kerala Atrial Fibrillation Registry: a prospective observational study on clinical characteristics, treatment pattern and outcome of atrial fibrillation in Kerala, India, cohort profile. BMJ Open 2019;9:e025901
⦁ Rajasekharan K Nayar, Anoop T Nair, Muhammed Shaffi, Kamala Swarnam, Anant Kumar, Minu Abraham et al. Methods to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The Lancet. March 23, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30218-1
⦁ T.N. Anand, M. Shaffi, M. Pillai A, A. Lathika Rajendrakumar, L.S. Sreemathy et al. Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among a coastal population in south India: baseline findings from a population-based health registry project in Kerala. 12 January 2018, Public Health 155 (2018) 107-109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.11.012
⦁ Shaffi M, Khurmi M. Policy on Health Workers in India - An Unfinished agenda for Improved Regulation. JHS [Internet]. 27Dec.2017: 2(2):1-. Available from: https://www.publishmed.com/index.php/JHS/article/view/437/380
⦁ Muhammed Shaffi, Anand TN, Marthanda Pillai A, Aravind Lathika Rajendrakumar, Lal Sadasivan Sreemathy et al. Developing a health registry for Coastal Population: Protocol of the Valiyathura Population Based Health Registry in Kerala, the southern coast of India. Journal of Health Systems, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 11-15, may. 2016. Available at: https://journals.publishmed.com/index.php/JHS/article/view/22/11
⦁ Nayar KR, Kuruvilla J, Shaffi M. Construction, and contours of crises in health care: A review. Health Care Acad J. 2016; 3(1): 41-46. Available at http://www.scopemed.org/?mno=221287
⦁ Zarin Pilakkadavath and Muhammed Shaffi. Modifiable risk factors of hypertension: A hospital‐based case–control study from Kerala, India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2016;1; available at http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2016;volume=5;issue=1;spage=114;epage=119;aulast=Pilakkadavath;aid=JFamMedPrimaryCare_2016_5_1_114_184634

In review

⦁ Bindhya Vijayan, K. Rajasekharan Nayar, Lal S. Sadasivan, Arathi P. Rao, Shaffi F. Koya. COVID 19 and social media: An exploratory content analysis of WhatsApp messages.
⦁ Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya, Sakthivel et al. Incidence of Typhoid in India and antibiotic usage: Estimations based on prescription data.

Health OpEd and blogs

⦁ ‌Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya and Shahul Hameed Ebrahim. The Winding Road to Free COVID Vaccines in India | Think Global Health [Internet]. Council on Foreign Relations. 2021 [cited 2021 Jul 20]. Available from: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/winding-road-free-covid-vaccines-india
⦁ Arathi, Shaffi, and Nayar. Restrictive measures in pandemic mitigation: On the ethics of using drones for surveillance https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/ [Internet]. IHP. 2021 [cited 2021 May 23]. Available from: https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/blogs/restrictive-measures-in-pandemic-mitigation-on-the-ethics-of-using-drones-for-surveillance/
⦁ Shahul Hameed Ebrahim, Muhammed Shaffi & N.M. Mujeeb Rahman. India’s vaccine saga continues with COVID-19 providing an opportunity to boost vaccine literacy [Internet]. Frontline. Frontline; 2021 [cited 2021 Feb 18]. Available from: https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/india-vaccine-saga-history-of-public-health-vaccination-covid19-provides-opportunity-to-boost-vaccine-literacy/article33551779.ece
⦁ K Rajasekharan Nayar; Anant Kumar; Muhammed Shaffi; Arathi P Rao; Anand Marthanda Pillai; S S Lal. Waiting in Health and Medical Care: A Preliminary Exploration | Medical Humanities. Medical Humanities. ⦁ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-⦁ humanities/2020/10/01/waiting-in-health-and-medical-care-a-preliminary-exploration/ Published October 2020
⦁ Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya. Are We Losing the Battle Against COVID-19? Delhi Post. https://delhipostnews.com/are-we-losing-the-battle-against-covid-19/ . Published July 8, 2020.
⦁ Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Anant Kumar. The Science, Arts and Politics of COVID | Countercurrents. Countercurrents. https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/the-science-arts-and-politics-of-covid/ . Published April 30, 2020.
⦁ Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, K Mohandas, Muhammed Shaffi, Minu Abraham, Chitra Grace, Jinbert Lordson. Pilgrims’ Progress: Need for a Humanitarian Mass-Gathering Policy. The BMJ Opinion, July 24, 2018, Available at ⦁ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2018/07/24/pilgrims-progress-need-for-a-humanitarian-mass-gathering-policy/
⦁ Manpreet Khurmi and Muhammed Shaffi. The deaths of children in hospital in India. The BMJ Opinion, December 14, 2017, Available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/12/14/the-deaths-of-children-in-hospital-in-india/
⦁ Anant Kumar, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Chitra Grace, Lekha D Bhat. Happy Days Are ‘Not’ Here! Economic & Political Weekly Vol. 52, Issue No. 19, 13 May 2017 available at http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/19/commentary/happy-days-are-%E2%80%98not%E2%80%99-here.html
⦁ Rakesh PS, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Chitra Grace. Do we need to consider universalizing the hepatitis A vaccine in Kerala, India? The BMJ Opinion, February 10, 2017, Available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/02/10/do-we-need-to-consider-universalising-the-hepatitis-a-vaccine-in-kerala-india/
⦁ Muhammed Shaffi, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar and SS Lal. Diphtheria Deaths in Kerala-signs of an impending crisis. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, Issue No. 43, 24 Oct 2015; available at http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/43/reports-states-web-exclusives/diphtheria-deaths-kerala.html

Conference paper presentations

Muhammed Shaffi. Vaccine hesitancy and social media. The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases, London. Online 28th September, 2021.

Muhammed Shaffi, Jinbert et al. Countering Vaccine hesitancy- Development of a new Mobile Application- Pradhirodh-The VaxApp, selected for the sixth global symposium on health systems research, to be held in Dubai, Nov 10-12, 2020

Muhammed Shaffi, Jinbert et al. Vaccine hesitancy in the context of social media anti-vaccine campaigns: health system trust deficit as a key determinant, selected for the sixth global symposium on health systems research, to be held in Dubai, Nov 10-12, 2020

Muhammed Shaffi, KR Nayar et al. Bridging the evidence-policy gap: Need for an effective mass gathering and safe pilgrimage policy in Indi, selected for the sixth global symposium on health systems research, to be held in Dubai, Nov 10-12, 2020

Abdu Adawi, Muhammed Shaffi, Abdalsalam et al (2019). Total Health Expenditure and health outcomes- An analysis of time trends for top five countries of the world and Saudi Arabia. Presented at the 2nd regional conference on public health at Riyad, KSA. 26-28 Mar 2019

Thamer Bakhamis, Majed Al-Thibaithi, Muhammed Shaffi et al (2019). Outbreaks in 2018- A global epidemiological perspective. Presented at the 2nd regional conference on public health at Riyad, KSA. 26-28 Mar 2019

Muhammed Shaffi and Joltin C (2014). Active case finding in urban slums- Experience from a pilot under Axshya projects in India. Presented at the 45th Union world conference on lung health at Barcelona. 28 Oct-1 Nov 2014

S Muhammed and G Mohit (2013). Reaching the unreached: Piggybacking on an existing platform. Presented at the 44th Union world conference on lung health in Paris. 1-3 Nov 2013

Muhammed Shaffi, Zarin Pilakkadavath (2013). Cluster model in medical education. Presented at the 1st National conference on Family Medicine and Primary Care 20-21 April 2013 New Delhi

S Muhammed, S Jaysankar, et al (2012). Expansion with inclusion: to achieve the target of 90/90 in India. Presented at 43rd Union world conference on lung health at Kuala Lumpur. 13-17 Nov 2012

S Muhammed, Joju Pomson (2012). Medical associations as a manager of public-private mix in the RNTCP, India. Presented at 43rd Union world conference on lung health at Kuala Lumpur. 13-17 Nov 2012

S Muhammed, S Vijayan, S Balakrishnan, R V Asokan, K G Prema (2011). PPM and role of professional associations in tuberculosis care and control. Presented at 42nd Union world conference on lung health at Lille, France. 26-30 Oct 2011