​​Publications 

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1: Feasibility of prehospital telemedicine for paediatric emergencies: a cluster-randomised pilot trial in Karachi, Pakistan​​

Authors: Junaid Abdul Razzak, Sheza Hassan, Huba Atiq, Walid Farooqi, Adil Haider, et al​.​​

Date: June 24, 2026

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2: Emergency Health Care Workers’ Preparedness and Willingness to Respond to a Dirty Bomb-related Disaster in Pakistan​

Authors: Junaid R​azzak, Nargis Asad, Badar Afzal, Ume-e-Ai​man Chhipa, Simran Motwani, Bee-Ah K​ang, Daniel J Barnett​, et al​.​​

Date: September 29, 2025


3: Does Time Matter? Impact of Residency Start Month on EGS Outcome in Pakistan​​

Authors: Kantesh Kumar, Komal Abdul Rahim, Adil Haider

Date: August 16, 2025​


​4: Epidemiological characteristics of elderly population receiving pre-hospital emergency care after road traffic injuries in Punjab, Pakistan​

Authors: Kantesh Kumar, Sheza Hassan, Muhammad Bazil Musharraf, Komal Abdul Rahim, Sijal Akhtar Sheikh, Huba Atiq, Muhammad Waqas Ahmed, Rameez-Ur-Re​hman Siddiqui, Rizwan N​aseer, Shahnaz Akhter, Y​asir Shafiq, Junaid Razzak​

Date: August 1, 2025


​5: ​The modification of risk assessment ranking when considering the female population and children in the INFORM risk index for selected countries

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, Kantesh Kumar, Ume e Aiman Chhipa,  Junaid A. Razzak​ et al​.​​

Date: July 22, 2025

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6: Navigating challenges in access to antenatal and intrapartum care: Afghan refugee women’s experiences amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Authors: ​Yasir Shafiq, et al​.​​

Date: June 24, 2025


7: Diagnostic Biomarkers for Heat Stroke and Heat Exhaustion: A Scoping Review

Authors: M. Bazil Musharraf, Junaid A. Razzak​ et al​.​​

Date: June 17, 2025

8: Identifying those at risk: predicting patient factors associated with worse EGS outcomes​

Authors: Komal Abdul Rahim​, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Adil H. Haider, et al​.​​

Date: May 28, 2025

9: When Is Old NOT Gold? Identifying Global Age Risk Surgical Thresholds to Improve Outcomes​

Authors: Kantesh Kumar, Komal Abdul Rahim, Adil Haider​

Date: May 15, 2025
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10: Bimodal, But Not the Same: Persistent Late Peaks in Trauma Mortality​

Authors: Muhammad Bazil Musharraf, Komal Abdul Rahim, Kantesh Kumar, Sijal Akhter Sheikh, Sheza Hassan, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Natasha Shaukat, Huba Atiq, Tanweer Ahmed, Saima Mushtaq, Adil Hussain Haider, Junaid Abdul Razzak ​

Date: April 22, 2025

11: The Willingness of Health Care Workers to Respond to a Pandemic in an LMIC Setting: Implications for Public Health Emergency Preparedness​

Authors: Junaid R​azzak, Nargis Asad, Badar Afzal, Ume-e-Ai​man Chhipa, Bee-Ah K​ang, Daniel J Barnett​, et al​.​​

Date: March 10, 2025


12: Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors​

Authors:  Junaid Razzak, Huba Atiq, Zaheer Babar Chand, Zabin Wajid Ali, Komal Abdul Rahim, Mehreen Mustafa, Tariq Ahmed Jakhro, 7azila Sahibjan​, et al​.​

Date: February 10, 2025


13​: The effect of prenatal balanced energy and protein supplementation on gestational weight gain: An individual participant data meta-analysis in low- and middle-income countries​

Authors: Yasir Shafiq,  et al​.​

Date: February 3, 2025​​


14: Toward Resilient Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Care: A Qualitative Study Involving Afghan Refugee Women in Pakistan​

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, Zabin Wajid Ali, Kantesh Kumar, et al​.​

Date: January 7, 2025​


15: South-to-South Cooperation: Lessons from the Pakistan Life Savers Programme to Initiate a Police-based CPR Initiative in Nepal

Authors: Ramu Kharel, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Mirza Noor Ali Baig, et al​.

Date: January 2025

16: Exploring the long-term disability outcomes in Trauma patients: study protocol

Authors: Natasha Shaukat, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Fazila Sahibjan, Ayesha Abbasi, Zeerak Jarrar, Tanveer Ahmed , Huba Atiq, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Shahid Rasul, Adnan A Hyder, Junaid Razzak, Adil Haider, et al​.​

Date: October 23, 2024​​


17: Epidemiology and outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest in Karachi, Pakistan – A longitudinal study​

Authors: Uzma Rahim Khan, ​Noor Baig, Ayaz Ilyas, Munawar Khursheed, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Bashir Hanif, Seemin Jamali, Nadeem Ullah Khan, et al​.

Date: September 13, 2024​​


18: In-hospital cardiac arrest in middle-income settings: A comprehensive analysis of clinical profiles and outcomes of both adults and pediatrics​

Authors: Huba Atiq, Sijal Akhtar Sheikh, Asad Latif, et al​.

Date: September 13, 2024


19: Effect of maternal postnatal balanced energy protein supplementation and infant azithromycin on infant growth outcomes: an open-label randomized controlled trial​

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.

Date: September, 2024​


20: Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Sign Algorithms to Identify Sepsis in Young Infants Aged 0 to 59 Days: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.

Date: August 1, 2024​


21: Predictive Accuracy of Infant Clinical Sign Algorithms for Mortality in Young Infants Aged 0 to 59 Days: A Systematic Review​

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.

Date: August 1, 2024​
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22: International facets of the ‘chain of survival’ for out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest – A scoping review

Authors: Huba Atiq, et al​.​

Date: June 15, 2024

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23: Transforming the delivery of care from "I" to "We" by developing the crisis resource management skills in pediatric interprofessional teams to handle common emergencies through simulation

Authors: ​Huba Atiq, et al​.​

Date: June 11​, 2024​


24: Access to care in Afghanistan after august 2021: a cross-sectional study exploring Afghans’ perspectives in 10 provinces​​

Authors: ​Yasir Shafiq, et al​.​

Date: April 22​, 2024​


25: Uncovering the causes and socio-demographic constructs of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in an urban slum of Karachi

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.​​

Date: April 5, 2024


26: Pakistan's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system & out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest (OHCA): A narrative review of an EMS system of a low middle income country in context of OHCA​​

Authors: Mirza Noor Ali Baig, Nadeemullah Khan, Rizwan Naseer, Shahnaz Akhter, Abid Jalaluddin Shaikh, Junaid Abdul Razzak, et al​.​​​​

Date: April 4, 2024


27: Equitable access to quality injury care; Equi-Injury project protocol for prioritizing interventions in four low- or middle-income countries: a mixed method study

Authors:  Junaid Razzak, Huba Atiq, Zaheer Babar Chand, Zabin Wajid Ali, Fazila Sahibjan​, et al​.​

Date: April 4, 2024


28: Impact of Ebola and COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal, and child health care among populations affected by conflicts: a scoping review exploring demand and supply-side barriers and solutions

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.​​

Date: January 30, 2024

29: Causes of maternal deaths in Sierra Leone from 2016 to 2019: analysis of districts’ maternal death surveillance and response data

Authors: Yasir Shafiq, et al​.

Date: January 12, 2024​


30: Which curve is better? A comparative analysis of trauma scoring systems in a South Asian country

Authors: Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Natasha Shaukat, Naela Ashraf, Sheza Hassan, Zeerak Jarrar, Ayesha Abbasi, Tanveer Ahmed, Huba Atiq, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Shahid Rasul, Adnan A Hyder, Junaid Razzak, Adil H. Haider, et al​.

Date: November 22, 2023​​

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31: Methodological analysis of a community-based training initiative using the EPIS framework: an ongoing initiative to empower 10 million bystanders in CPR and bleeding control

Authors: Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Sheza Hassan, Noor Baig, Huba Atiq, Ann Doll, Rizwan Naseer, Zia Ul Haq, Deeba Shehnaz, Adil H. Haider,  Junaid Razzak​, et al​.

Date: November 14, 2023​

32: Ten Steps Toward Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Quality of Care and Outcomes

Authors: Huba Atiq, Ann​ Doll, et al.

Date: November 9, 2023​


​33: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in low-resource settings: a statement by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, supported by the AFEM, EUSEM, IFEM, and IFRC

Authors: Huba Atiq, Noor Baig, et al​.

​​​Date: September 2023​


34: Follow-up household assessment for child unintentional injuries two years after the intervention: A community-based study from Karachi, Pakistan

​Authors:  Junaid Abdul Razzak, Adnan Ali Hyder, et al​.

Date: August 2023​


35: Enhancing a Willingness to Respond to Disasters and Public Health Emergencies Among Health Care Workers, Using mHealth Intervention: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Authors: Daniel J Barnett, Bee-Ah Kang, Ume-E-Aiman Chhipa, Nargis Asad, Badar Afzal, Junaid A Razzak, et al​. ​

Date: July 21, 2023

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36: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Risk Perception in the Willingness to Respond to Weather Disasters Among Emergency Medicine Health Care Workers in Pakistan

Authors: Bee-Ah Kang, Daniel J Barnett, Ume-E-Aiman Chhipa, Amber Mehmood, Bad​ar Afzal, Junaid Ra​zzak, Nargis As​ad, et al​.​

Date: July 21, 2023​


37: Lifesaving skills training in schools - A qualitative study to explore students, teachers, and parent's perceived opportunities and challenges

Authors: Natasha Shaukat, Daniyal Mansoor Ali, Zeerak Jarrar, Naela Ashraf, Sheza Hassan,  Junaid Razzak, et al​.​

Date: February 27, 2023 ​​


38: Improvement in the diagnosis and practices of emergency healthcare providers for heat emergencies after HEAT (heat emergency awareness & treatment) an educational intervention: a multicenter quasi-experimental study​

Authors: Junaid Razzak, Seemin Jamali, Nadeem Ullah Khan, et al​.​

Date: January 31, 2023


39: Association of age and severe injury in young motorcycle riders: A cross-sectional study from Karachi, Pakistan

​A​uthors: Junaid Razzak, et al​.​​

Date: September 2023


40: Documenting response to COVID-individual and systems successes and challenges: a longitudinal qualitative study

Authors: Natasha Shaukat, Daniyal Mansoor Ali, Butool Hisam, Sheza Hassan, Badar Afzal, Junaid Razzak, et al​.​​

Date: May 16, 2022

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41: Association of adolescents’ independent mobility with road traffic injuries in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Junaid Razzak, et al​.​

Date: March 22, 2022

42: Heat Emergencies: Perceptions and Practices of Community Members and Emergency Department Healthcare Providers in Karachi, Pakistan: A Qualitative Study​

​Authors: Uzma Rahim Khan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Junaid Abdul Razzak, et al​.​​

Date: April 29, 2021​