Professor Dr. Syed Aljunid is a Professor of Health Economics and Senior Research Fellow at UNU International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). Prior to this, he served as a Professor and Head of Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia (UKM). His main interest is in the strengthening of health care system of developing countries through research and development in health economics and financing.

He is currently involved in supporting a number of developing countries to develop and implement a case-mix system, a health management and information tool to enhance quality and efficiency of healthcare services provided by social health insurance programmes. This includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Mongolia, Uruguay, Chile, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

He heads the International Training Centre on Case-mix and Clinical Coding, which he founded in 2006 in National University of Malaysia. The Centre helps to build human resource capacity on case-mix system with special focus on low and middle income countries. Currently, he serves as the co-chair of Morbidity Technical Advisory Group of ICD-11 Revision of World Health Organisation-Family of International Classification. He is actively involved in teaching health economics and health management courses in MPH, MBA and Ph.D. programmes jointly run by UNU-IIGH and partner universities in Malaysia, Nepal, Yemen, United Arab Emirates and Sudan. He has served as consultant and advisers to a number of international agencies such as the World Health Organisation, UN-AIDS, UNDP, UNICEF, GAVI, Asian Development and the World Bank in various international projects on health economics and financing.

Major Research Projects:

1. Megascience Framework for Sustained National Development 2011-2050: Health and Medicine Sector
2. Evaluation of Case-Mix System Implementation in Indonesia: Comparison of INA-DRG and Fee-for-Service Tariff in Selected Hospitals in Indonesia
3. Development of Patient Safety Indicators in the Healthcare Facilities of Iran Healthcare System
4. Health Risk and Health Care Cost Assessment of Arsenicosis in Cambodia.
5. Cost-effectiveness of HPV Vaccination to Prevent Cervical Cancer in Malaysia.
6. Clinical and Economic Burden of Pneumococcal Diseases in Malaysia
7. Functional Status and Quality of Life of Community Dwelling Post-stroke Survivors and the Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Home-based Care Provider and Assisting Exercise Programme
8. Economic Burden and Cost-effectiveness of Diabetes Mellitus Management in Malaysia