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Dr. Aqsa Shaikh

MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)

Professor, Department of Medical Education Unit

Reg. Number: DMC-66477

emailtoaqsa@gmail.com

About

Dr. Aqsa is a Community Medicine with interest in Covid-19 surveillance, vaccination and research. She has keen interest in medical education technology and medical humanities. She is India’s first and only Nodal Officer of a Covid Vaccination Centre. Aqsa has penned numerous books on subject matters besides contributing essays and chapters. She also blogs on issues of social interest.

Educational Qualifications

S.No. Degree Year of Completion Institute Name
1 MD 2010 Seth GS Medical College MUHS, Nashik
2 MBBS 2006 Seth GS Medical College MUHS, Nashik

Details of Teaching Experience

S.No. Designation Institution From To Duration
1 Associate Professor HIMSR, New Delhi 22-06-2020 Till Date
2 Assistant Professor HIMSR, New Delhi 07-11-2016 21-06-2020 3 Years 7 Months
3 Lecturer HIMSR, New Delhi 26-02-2015 06-11-2016 1 Year 9 Months
4 Demonstrator HIMSR, New Delhi 22-08-2013 25-02-2015 1 Year 6 Months

Publications (Last Three Years)

  1. Zakirhusain Shaikh (2014), Knowledge of Reproductive Health and HIV among School Going Adolescents of Mumbai, Indian Journal of Youth and Adolescent Health, Vol 1, No 3&4, pages 36-42, ISSN: 2349–2880.
  2. Zakirhusain A Shaikh, Rambha Pathak, M C Kapilashrami, (2015), Misuse of social media marketing by alcohol companies, Journal of Mental Health and Human Behavior, Volume 20, issue 1, pages- 22-27, ISSN: 0971-89.
  3. Pathak R, Chaudhary C, Agarwalla R, Shaikh Z, Goel R, Patvegar B. A community-based case–control study to investigate the role of iron deficiency in the persistence of goiter. Indian J Endocr Metab 2016; 20:517-22.
  4. Shaikh, Zakirhusain; Pathak, Rambha. Revised Kuppuswamy and B G Prasad socio-economic scales for 2016.International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 4, p. 997-999, mar. 2017. ISSN 2394-6040
  5. Parashar M, Dwivedi S, Agarwalla R, Kishore J, Shaikh Z. Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among male workers of building construction site in Delhi. J Clin Prev Cardiol [serial online] 2017 [cited 2017 Aug 21];6:99-103
  6. Zakirhusain Shaikh, Mihir Rupani, Acceptability of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision among Indian Men: An Online study, Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences, 2017; 5(3F):1137-1141
  7. Zakirhusain Shaikh, Meely Panda, Diksha Gaur, "Acceptability of low-priced, socially-marketed sanitary napkins amongst non-users of sanitary napkins in a slum population of Delhi", accepted for publication in International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
  8. Panda M, Pathak R, Rasheed N, Shaikh Z, Islam F. Unmet need and nonacceptance of usage of contraceptive devices in a Rural Area of Delhi: An exploration of facts. Nigerian Medical Journal. 2018 Jul 1;59(4):39.
  9. Jain A, Shaikh A, Malhotra K. Handshake habit amongst medical practitioners, need to abandon and embrace an alternative: analytical study in view of COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2020 Jun;7(6):2352.
  10. Shaikh, Zakirhusain, "Transgender-friendly Medical Colleges and Hospitals: a Dream Worth Chasing." The Indian Practitioner 71.12 (2018): 33-35.
  11. Shaikh, Z. (2019). Legal and ethical considerations in posting clinical images on social media. Research & Humanities in Medical Education, 6, 43-48.

Memberships and Fellowships

  1. Life Member, Indian Public Health Association (L/2016/DEL/7314)
  2. Life Member, Indian Association of Adolescent and Youth Health (326/DL/2015)
  3. Life Member, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (L-4279)
  4. Life member, Indian Professional Association for Transgender Health
  5. Life Member, Society for Menstrual Disorders and Hygiene Management (34023)
  6. Life Member, Society for Menstrual Disorders and Hygiene Management (34023)
  7. Life member, Association of Muslim Doctors

Awards

  1. Received Youth Ki Awaaz Award for Best Article on Mental Health 2019
  2. Awarded Himalayan Green Award in the Category of Health Education by Himalayan Welfare Organisation, Pahalgam, Kashmir
  3. Best Paper Award - Acceptability of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision amongst Indian men, e-poster presentation at 61st National Annual Conference of Indian Public Health Association, February 2017, at AIIMS, Jodhpur
  4. Received Woman Achiever Award 2020 by Women’s Manifesto
  5. Received Woman of Substance Award 2021 by Society of Menstrual Disorders and Hygiene Management

Invited Talks and Lectures

  1. Participated as Panelist in International Conference on Shared Decision Making among Vulnerable Groups at University of Chicago centre, New Delhi, from 16-17 March 2019 and spoke about Shared Decision making in contexts of LGBTQIA+ health
  2. Organiser & Speaker at 1st International Conference on Transgender Health, 1-2 Nov 2019 at Jamia Hamdard, Delhi
  3. Delivered a Talk on Making Medical College and Medical Curriculum Trans-inclusive at IPATHCON2019 at Jamia Hamdard on 1st Nov 2019
  4. Participated as faculty in the Pre-Conference Workshop on Menstrual Hygiene Management, on 21st November 2019 at VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, as part of 26th Annual Conference NARCHI Delhi
  5. Attended as a Panelist (on LGBT Issues) at Harvard US India Initiative Conference 2020 at Mumbai on 3rd January 2020
  6. Panelist at Youth Jamboree: Youth of India solving their queries with experts, organsied by Rajshree medical Research Institute and Hospital, Bareilly alongwith Society for Menstrual Disorders and Hygiene Management on 11th August 2020
  7. Speaker in Webinar on Gender-Friendly Healthcare Facility organized by Association for Transgender Health in India on 15th August 2020
  8. Panelist, 8th National Bioethics Conference, by FMES, December 2020
  9. Delivered Lecture on Blueprinting in Assessment in pre-Conference Workshop on Assessment in Medical Education – PSI-SAAP 2021 Conference