Public Health

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Discipline of Public Health
Academic and Administration staff located at
Level 7, 178 North Terrace
Mail Drop DX650 550
Email

Telephone: +61 8 8313 4637

Discipline of Public Health
Research and Data Management located at
Level 6, Bice Building
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Mail Drop DX650 511

Facsimile: +61 8 8223 4075

Discipline of Public Health
Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA)
located at
Level 7, 178 North Terrace
Mail Drop DX650 545

Telephone: +61 8303 4617
Facsimile: +61 8303 6899

THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA

(Country and interstate callers toll free on 1800 061 459)

Afzal Mahmood

Mohammad Afzal Mahmood
M.B.,B.S. (Pakistan), M.P.H. (Adelaide), Ph.D.(Adelaide)
Senior Lecturer

Location:
Room 916, Level 9, 10 Pulteney St

Email:
afzal.mahmood@adelaide.edu.au

Phone:
+61 8 8303 3586

Disciplinary orientation:
Health Systems and PHC Development, Reproductive Health, Health Promotion

Areas of Interest:
Program and Project Planning & Evaluation , Health Management Information Systems, Participatory Appraisal and Community Development

Teaching:
Coordinator of courses 3119 HO Public Health Internship, 3106/7109 Health Promotion, and 1002 Public Health 1B.

Coordinator International Health and Internationalisation

Current projects:

Improved quality of care at village clinics and township hospitals Shandong, in collaboration with the Shandong Department of Health, Peoples Republic of China, with Dr He Wang
The influence of living arrangements on health services utilisation in Australia with Dr Peng Bi
Strengthening District Health System for Reproductive Health–Safe Motherhood, East Timor. In collaboration with Rotary Australia World Community Services-International Infancy Midwifery Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Ministry of Health East Timor.
Coordinating Medical Students Outcome Database research activities – a research-based development initiative of the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools – at the University of Adelaide Medical School.

Recently completed PHC and Reproductive Health Projects:

Evaluation of Children and Families Integration Services: Evaluating the Outcomes of Service Integration. CYWHS, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide.

Sustainability strategies for reproductive health programs in seventeen communities, Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association, Pakistan

Operations research – STI, EC, Information System, for reproductive health programs, PAVHNA, Karachi, Pakistan.

Output to purpose review of community based health care projects of Marie Stopes Society and Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association

Development of health management information systems for use by the community based programs, Karachi, Pakistan

PHC research and program management training for health and social sector managers from East Africa. In collaboration with the Aga Khan Health Services, Mombasa, Kenya