Adnan A. Hyder
Adnan A. Hyder, MD, MPH, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. He is Director of the International Injury Research Unit and the Ph.D. Program in Health Systems, core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research & Policy and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Hyder serves as a consultant to several international organizations including the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has been working on injury prevention and control in developing countries, especially South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, for over 15 years and has published widely in the international literature. Hyder in an editor of the WHO/World Bank-World Report on Road Traffic Injuries Prevention; WHO-Guidelines for Injury Surveys; WHO/UNICEF-World Report on Child Injuries (forthcoming); and an author of the chapters on injuries and emergency care for the World Bank/WHO/UNDP/NIH/Gates Foundation-Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries project. He is well known for his work on burden of disease and injury measures, for developing the healthy life year indicator, and has been researching the impact of unintentional injuries in Asia and Africa. Hyder is a founding member and current Vice Chair of the global Road Traffic Injuries Research Network and Chairman of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. He is the recipient of the IRTE/Prince Michael Award for Road Safety and the American Public Health Association-International Health Section Mid-Career Award. Hyder did his M.D. from the Aga Khan University, Pakistan and obtained his MPH and Ph.D. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, USA.