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Dr. Muhammad Bilal Siddiqui

Dr. Muhammad Bilal Siddiqui

Public-health epidemiologist, health-systems researcher and digital-health CEO.

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Karachi, Pakistan
Joined November 2025
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Child-health epidemiology and registry building: Dr. Siddiqui is a researcher focused on maternal and child health surveillance and methods. He founded and directs NMCHRoP and has led validation studies (e.g., validating the CHERG VASA tool in Pakistan) that combine verbal and social autopsy methods to better understand under-five mortality determinants. nih+1
Digital-health entrepreneur and telemedicine advocate: He founded ELAAJ Online and directs its research and product strategy, advocates for telemedicine adoption (presentations and videos), and runs / teaches telemedicine and digital-health certificate programs through STEMConnect. elaajonline+2
Academic mentor and capacity-builder: Dr. Siddiqui combines academic roles (PhD, faculty and program management) with hands-on training—designing manuscript-writing and research courses and supervising students—demonstrating strengths in knowledge translation, research mentorship and scholarly publishing. stemconnectonline+1
Health-systems research and policy practitioner: He has engaged in implementation and consultancy with academic and humanitarian organisations (University of Malaya projects, ICRC-related work and local implementation consultancies), bringing applied health-systems research to policy and program implementation. nih+1

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Validation of CHERG'S Verbal Autopsy-Social Autopsy (VASA) tool for ascertaining determinants and causes of under-five child mortality in Pakistan

January 1, 2023

Peer-reviewed study validating the integrated CHERG VASA instrument in Pakistan to assign medical and social causes of under-five deaths and to identify determinants; validation shows high content validity and reliability in the Pakistani context.

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