Faculty Profile - Dr. Saima Hamid - Health Services Academy

	Title: Assistant Professor , Health Services Academy	Room: B203 (First Floor)
		Telephone: +92-51-9522290-4 ext.130
		Fax: +92-51-9255591
		E-mail: dr.saimahamid@hsa.edu.pk

Background

Qualifications

PhD, Karolinska Institute, Department of Public Health Sciences Global Health Division, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.
MSPH (M.Sc in Public Health, 2001) Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
MBBS December 1991, Fatimah Jinnah Medical College, University of the Punjab, Lahore.

Experience
Dr. Saima Hamid works as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health. She has 10 years of teaching experience at the post graduate level in the field of reproductive health, biostatistics and epidemiology. Her core areas of expertise include curriculum design, study conception, design, analysis and report writing in field and facility based studies (qualitative and quantitative); Proposal development and Data Management; Review of Literature using electronic and static databases.

Teaching
My main teaching is in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Methodology and Proposal Writing. In addition to the courses offered in the MSPH programme, HSA offers short courses from time to time in which I co-teach as well.

Research
My main research area of interest is adolescent health. I have worked in other areas as communicable diseases, reproductive health and health systems.

Publications
Some of my publications are as follows:

Hamid, S., Johansson, E., & Rubenson, B. (2009). “Who am I? Where am I?” Experiences of married young women in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. BMC Public Health, 9(1), 265.
Hamid, S., Johansson, E., & Rubenson, B. (2010). Security lies in obedience- Voices of young women of a slum in Pakistan. BMC Public Health, 10(1), 164.
Hamid, S., Johansson, E., & Rubenson, B. ‘Good parents’ strive to raise ‘innocent daughters’. Cult Health Sex. 2011 Aug;13(7):841-51. Epub 2011 Jun 9.
Hamid S., Stephenson R., & Rubenson, B. Marriage Decision Making, Spousal Communication and Reproductive Health among Married Youth in Pakistan. Glob Health Action. 2011 Jan 11;4. doi: 10.3402/gha.v4i0.5079.
Hamid S; Stephenson R. Provider and Health Facility Influences on Contraceptive Adoption in Urban Pakistan. International Family Planning Perspectives, 2006, 32(2):71–78
Mansoor F, Hamid S, Mir T et al. Incidence of Traumatic injection neuropathy among children in Pakistan. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 2005:Vol. 11(4): 798-804.
Siddiqi S; Hamid S; Rafique G et al. Prescription Practices of Public and Private Health Care Providers in Attock District of Pakistan. Int. J. Health Plann Mgmt 2002: 17 23-40.
Nigral input to the CM-PF thalamic complex in the cat. D. S. Yamasaki, C Fitzpatrick, S. Hamid and G. J. Royce, Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53706. Soc. Neurosci Abstr., Vol 20, Part I, p.145-20,1994.