Habib Hasan Farooqui

Habib Hasan Farooqui, is an Additional Professor of Health Economics at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), and visiting Fellow at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK.  

He obtained his medical degree (Doctor of Medicine) from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras  

Hindu University (2007) and Non-Degree Medicine PG from Sydney University (2010).  

He has also received training as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2013-14). Before joining PHFI he has worked as Surveillance Medical Officer at World Health Organization (2007-08). 

One of the core areas of his research are vaccine preventable childhood diseases. He generated first ever country level estimates on antibiotic use and pediatric vaccine use in the private sector in India, first ever state specific estimates of pneumococcal pneumonia related mortality and morbidity  

for India which guided the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) introduction planning, has conducted qualitative research into parents and pediatrician’s decision making process on immunization with PCV and Rotavirus vaccines. In addition, he has also conducted impact evaluation of several public policies and programs and provided technical advice to Competition Commission of India on merger and acquisitions (M&A) in Indian pharmaceutical market, and Ministry of Health and National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) on pharmaceutical price regulation. 

His particular research interest is to understand relationship and interdependency between new vaccine introductions and demand for antibiotics and consequently its impact on AMR.  

He has served as member and technical expert on several national and international advisory committees on infectious diseases and immunisation in the past. With more than 18 years of teaching and research experience he is the lead faculty on Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Pharmaceutical Economics  at the Foundation.