Prof. Dr. Azhar Hussain is a registered pharmacist in Pakistan since 1995 and currently working as Professor of Practice at Pak Austria Fachhochschule; He attained his Bachelor of Pharmacy from Punjab University, Lahore-Pakistan, MBA marketing from College of Business Administration Rawalpindi-Pakistan, Masters in Clinical Pharmacy and PhD in Pharmacy Practice from USM-Malaysia. He has contributed more than 130 publications in peer reviewed journals. Recently he has contributed chapter in the ELSVIER book title “Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries Achievements and Challenges”. He has also worked as National Assessor for WHO Good Governance of Medicine study in Pakistan. He has also been involved as focal person for NTP USAID project on engaging community pharmacies in active TB case detection in Pakistan. He gathered his experience of working on medicines as an ardent policy advocate, as an applied researcher and as a writer. He has worked on country wide monitoring of National Drug Policy; rational drug use issues and drug access issues. He has participated in high level policy meetings and has effectively contributed his perspectives in these discussions. His interest in health issues and his representation in the field have made him go beyond states like U.K, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, South Africa, Iran, Singapore, Bangladesh and India where he represented the country at different forums. He has also been a trainer at World Health Organization’s International Course on Promoting Rational Drug Use. He is among the few in Pakistan who has a formal training in Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Hussain has more than 130 publications and his work in the field of public health and publications (Quantitative and Qualitative) on the issues like Community Pharmacy Practice, Rational Dispensing Problems, Training of Dispensers, Malaria Management, National Drug Policy, Essential Drugs, Rational Drug Use, Affordability of Medicines, Quality of Medicines and treatment of Tuberculosis, Malaria, Diabetes and ARI has been published in various Journals and print media. He has also been the Vice President of Pakistan Pharmacist Association Federal chapter. He is also serving as expert Member on Board of Studies and Academic councils of various universities. He is also serving as Member of Editorial Board/Reviewer of various journals and served as Member Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, Member Essential Drug Review Committee, Member Expert Committee on Biological Drugs, Member National Drug Policy Review Committee, Technical Expert Drug Registration Board and Co-opt member for audit of pharmaceutical companies and technical expert for reviewing Drug Dossiers of pharmaceutical products. He is currently serving as Member Drug Court, Islamabad.
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