Kamran Siddiqi
Professor in Public Health

Profile

Biography

Kamran has a medical background with further training in chest diseases and public health. His research is on non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries with a focus on tobacco control. He has expertise in developing and evaluating public health interventions and carries out pragmatic randomized controlled trials. He also applies implementation science in evaluating simple, efficacious and scalable interventions. He is the joint director of NIHR Global Health Centre for IMPACT which aims to strengthen research capacity in non-communicable diseases Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

Qualifications

• PhD University of Leeds, UK
• FFPH Faculty of Public Health, UK
• MPH, University of Leeds, UK
• MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, UK
• MBBS University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Departmental roles

• Member of the Centre for Health and Population Sciences (CHaPS)

Research

Projects

• IMPACT Centre 2022-27: NIHR Global Health Research Centre for IMProving mental And physiCal health Together in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
• FRESHAIR4LIFE: Implementation research on tailored, multidisciplinary NCD pREvention in youtH: TArgeting tobacco and aIR polLutIon Exposure For mid- to latE adolescents in disadvantaged populations. EU Horizon 
• Tobacco control policies and the health of Adolescents in Pakistan (TAP)  a multi-method study 2022-25: Medical Research Council, UK. 
• Can we improve outcomes in people with TB and co-morbid diabetes by offering a TB-Diabetes care package as part of TB care? 2022-25. Grand Challenge Fund, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. 
• NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health RESPIRE-2 2022-2026. 

Research group(s)

• Public Health and Society

Supervision

• Kamran supervises in the topics of lung health, tobacco control and tuberculosis.

Publications

Full publications list

• Kamran Siddiqi's publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Scholarship and Special Interest Programme

Postgraduate

• Masters in Public Health

External activities

Overview

Research Funding Bodies:

• Co-chair of the NIHR Global Health Research Groups Funding Committee (2023-date)
• Member - Global Health Training Steering Committee, National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2020-22
• Member - NIHR, Research for Patient Benefit Funding Committee, 2011-15
• Member - Wellcome Trust, Joint Global Health Trials Scheme Funding Board, 2019-20 
• Member - Medical Research Council, Multimorbidity Funding Panel, 2019-20
• Member – Medical Research Council, African Research Leadership Funding Board, 2019-2023
• Member - Medical Research Foundation, Policy and Practice Impact Award Panel, 2019-2023
• Member - Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, Cancer Funding Panel, 2021-22

Positions in Learned Societies:

• Chair - Tobacco section, International Union against TB and Lung Diseases, 2015-17
• Vice Chair - Tobacco section, International Union against TB and Lung Diseases, 2013-15
• Board Member - International Union against TB and Lung Diseases, 2015-18
• Chair (joint) - Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, Respiratory Disease Programme, 2017-19
• Fellow - Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2020-date
• Member - Action on Smoking or Health, Advisory Council, 2019-20 Member - International Agency for Research on Cancer, Prevention Committee, 2022-23

Memberships

• Funding panel of Medical Research Council for the African Research Leadership programme (2019-date), Medical Research Foundation Impact awards (2019-date), and Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases for the Cancer Programme (2021-date)
• Fellow of Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research from 2000-date

Editorial duties

• Deputy Editor-in-Chief – npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2017-18 
• Deputy editor – Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2018-23 
• Associate editor – Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2013-17

Invited talks and conferences

• Key-note speaker at the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference "Smokeless tobacco: The quiet killer" June 2014
• Invited speaker at World Lung Health Congress, Paris, October 2013
• Invited speaker at Tobacco End-game Conference, Delhi, September 2013

Media coverage

• Highly commended for BUPA Healthy Lives Prize (2012)
• Outstanding Paper of the Year Award: Literati Network Awards for Excellence - Emerald Literati Network (2011)