Adnan Hyder
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Adnan Ali Hyder, MD, PhD, MPH

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor - Boston University School of Public Health

ahyder1@bu.edu
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Biography

Prior to joining Boston University School of Public Health as its Dean in August 2025, Dr. Hyder was Senior Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Global Health at the George Washington University’s (GWU) Milken Institute School of Public Health, where he was a faculty member since 2018. Recognized among the world’s premier scholars in health systems and policy, Dr. Hyder has spent over 25 years working to improve global health in low- and middle-income countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and pioneering empirical work around system design and constraints, biomedical ethics, and injury prevention in the developing world. At GWU, he led the nation’s first center dedicated to commercial determinants of health affecting people in the United States and globally. His National Institutes of Health-supported research has made significant contributions to our understanding of the epidemiological burden, risk factors, potential interventions, economic impact, and the socio-cultural correlates of non-communicable diseases and injuries around the world.

Dr. Hyder has authored over 400 scientific peer-reviewed papers, 30 book chapters, and numerous world reports on road safety, child injuries, and health systems. He is a past international president of the World Health Summit, is chair of the Lancet Commission on Global Gun Violence and Health, and has received the C. Everett Koop Medal of Distinction from SafeKids Worldwide as well as GWU’s Distinguished Research Career Award. Prior to his work at GWU, Dr. Hyder served for 20 years on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s (JHU’s) Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he was Director of the Health Systems Program, Associate Chair in the Department of International Health, and Associate Director for Global Bioethics at the JHU Berman Institute of Bioethics. In addition to his academic work, he has held several prominent advisory and chair positions affiliated with the World Health Organization and the World Bank. Dr. Hyder received his MD from the Aga Khan University in Pakistan and his MPH and PhD in public health from Johns Hopkins University.

Education

  • Johns Hopkins University, PhD Field of Study: Health Systems
  • Johns Hopkins University, MPH Field of Study: International Health
  • The Aga Khan University, MD Field of Study: Medicine and Surgery

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Publications

  • Published on 6/30/2025

    Ferguson K, Adebamowo C, Adejumo AO, Ogundiran T, Aliyu MH, Gordon EJ, Iliyasu Z, Agulanna C, Adamu SU, Adeyemo O, Ezugwu EC, Adeyemo SA, Caplan AL, Ogedegbe O, Moon TD, Heitman E, Taylor JC, Bari I, Hyder AA, Ndebele P, Doumbia S, Njie-Carr VPS, Sey-Sawo J, Silverman H, Usuf E, Senghore T, de Pina Araújo IIM, Laar AK, Ezeome ER. Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity in West Africa, 2015-2024. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2025 Jun 30; 15562646251335076. PMID: 40583642.

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  • Published on 6/13/2025

    Masud S, Hyder AA, Rahim Khan U, Ullah Khan N, Raheem A, Petrucka P. A Cross-Sectional Survey of Unintentional Injuries Among 15-24-Year-Old Vocational School Youth From Pakistan Between 2021-2022. Inquiry. 2025; 62:469580251343779. PMID: 40514215.

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  • Published on 4/17/2025

    Paichadze N, Pandey V, Bari I, Tauqeer A, Monclús J, Hyder AA. Socio-cultural context of road safety in youth: a scoping review. Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2025 Jun; 32(2):163-171. PMID: 40242859.

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  • Published on 4/10/2025

    Rosen HE, Khalaf MK, Mitra S, Neki K, Hyder AA, Paichadze N. Factors associated with mortality of hospitalized road traffic injury patients in 4 low- and middle-income countries. Traffic Inj Prev. 2025 Apr 10; 1-6. PMID: 40209031.

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  • Published on 2/7/2025

    Pérez K, Santamariña-Rubio E, López MJ, Artazcoz L, Ferrando J, Pastor C, Hyder AA, Borrell C. 25 years of providing evidence on road safety interventions at the city level. Front Public Health. 2024; 12:1463878. PMID: 39989864.

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  • Published on 1/2/2025

    Paichadze N, Cook EK, Rosen HE, Kurtovic S, Hyder AA. The evolution of health policy and systems research in 11 low- and middle-income countries and the role of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: a bibliometric analysis for 1999-2020. Health Res Policy Syst. 2025 Jan 02; 23(1):1. PMID: 39748360.

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  • Published on 11/18/2024

    Khalaf MK, Rosen HE, Paichadze N, Siddiqi S, Neki K, Seager J, Mitra S, Wang Y, Rahman AKMF, Hyder AA. Psychometric properties of the WHODAS 2.0 in patients with orthopedic injuries from road traffic crashes in Bangladesh. Disabil Rehabil. 2025 Jun; 47(13):3421-3435. PMID: 39552262.

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  • Published on 11/8/2024

    Ghafar A, Bachani AM, Hyder AA, Cieza A, Bhangu A, Bussières A, Sanchez-Ramirez DC, Gandhi DBC, Verbunt J, Rasanathan K, Gustafsson L, Côté P, Reebye R, De la Cerna-Luna R, Negrini S, Frontera WR, Kamalakannan S. Correction: Role and promise of health policy and systems research in integrating rehabilitation into the health systems. Health Res Policy Syst. 2024 Nov 08; 22(1):149. PMID: 39516915.

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  • Published on 10/29/2024

    van Kessel R, Seghers LE, Anderson M, Schutte NM, Monti G, Haig M, Schmidt J, Wharton G, Roman-Urrestarazu A, Larrain B, Sapanel Y, Stüwe L, Bourbonneux A, Yoon J, Lee M, Paccoud I, Borga L, Ndili N, Sutherland E, Görgens M, Weicken E, Coder M, de Fatima Marin H, Val E, Profili MC, Kosinska M, Browne CE, Marcelo A, Agarwal S, Mrazek MF, Eskandar H, Chestnov R, Smelyanskaya M, Källander K, Buttigieg S, Ramesh K, Holly L, Rys A, Azzopardi-Muscat N, de Barros J, Quintana Y, Spina A, Hyder AA, Labrique A, Kamel Boulos MN, Chen W, Agrawal A, Cho J, Klucken J, Prainsack B, Balicer R, Kickbusch I, Novillo-Ortiz D, Mossialos E. A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health. Bull World Health Organ. 2025 Feb 01; 103(2):110-125H. PMID: 39882497.

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  • Published on 10/23/2024

    Shaukat N, Merchant AAH, Sahibjan F, Abbasi A, Jarrar Z, Ahmed T, Atiq H, Khan UR, Khan NU, Mushtaq S, Rasul S, Hyder AA, Razzak J, Haider A. Exploring the long-term disability outcomes in Trauma patients: study protocol. Arch Public Health. 2024 Oct 23; 82(1):189. PMID: 39444046.

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