Adnan Hyder

Dr. Adnan Hyder is Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University (BU), USA. Prior to joining BU, Dr. Hyder was Senior Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Global Health at the George Washington University’s (GWU) Milken Institute School of Public Health, where he was a faculty member since 2018. Dr. Hyder has spent over 25 years working to improve global health in low- and middle-income countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and pioneering empirical work around system design and constraints, biomedical ethics, and injury prevention in the developing world. At GWU, he led the nation’s first center dedicated to commercial determinants of health affecting people in the United States and globally. His National Institutes of Health-supported research has made significant contributions to our understanding of the epidemiological burden, risk factors, potential interventions, economic impact, and the socio-cultural correlates of non-communicable diseases and injuries around the world.