Kabir Sheikh

Biography

Dr Kabir Sheikh MBBS, MSc, PhD, DLSHTM(R) is a public health physician, health systems researcher and policy analyst, with interests in health systems strengthening, governance and social equity in low and middle income countries. He directs the Health Governance Hub, an interdisciplinary programme of health policy and systems research at PHFI with collaborations across six continents. He also directs the Nodal Institute of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at PHFI, and the WHO Regional Training Centre for Implementation Research at PHFI. Dr Sheikh is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor at BRAC University Dhaka. Dr. Sheikh is the founder and Scientific Convenor of the National Knowledge Platform for Health Systems Research, the Government of India’s national platform for health systems research and policy uptake. He currently advises the Government of India on the establishment of India’s nascent national Health Technology Assessment platform. In 2011, he led the technical team (citizen and private sector participation) for the Government of India commissioned recommendations on Universal Health Coverage. He is the founder and convenor of the KEYSTONE India initiative, a consortium of thirteen leading Indian public health institutions engaged in capacity-building for health policy & systems research. Dr Sheikh is the Board Chair and South-East Asiaregion representative ofHealth Systems Global, the first international membership organization for health systems research and knowledge translation. He is a member of the Global Health Group of the Medical Research Council UK, and a Member of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Scholar (2011) and an Expert Resident in health systems research at the Universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape (2014). He serves in various roles as an expert and advisor to the World Health Organization, the European Commission, UNICEF, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, DfID, the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, and several universities and policy / research groups globally.He is also a founder and convener of SHaPeS, Health Systems Global’s thematic working group on Social science approaches for research and engagement on Health Policy and Systems. He has authored over sixty refereed publications, and edited the volumeHealth Providers in India (Routledge 2010) and two journal special editions - on Health Systems in Asia (Social Science and Medicine, 2015), and on People Centred Health Systems (Health Policy and Planning, 2014). Dr Sheikh is health systems editor of Health Policy & Planning, and a member of the advisory board of BMJ Global Health.

Research Interest

Global health, health policy and systems research, implementation research, human resources for health, decentralization and participatory governance, health stewardship and regulation, primary health care, universal health coverage