Professor Dato’ Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid is a distinguished Public Health Medicine Consultant and Professor of Health Economics, Policy and Management in the Department of Public Health Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, UKM.

He also serves as a Professor of Community Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, IMU University.

He has a rich academic background including a PhD in Health Economics and Financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an MD from the National University of Malaysia and a Master of Science in Public Health from the National University of Singapore.

He was the first Malaysian to obtain a PhD in Health Economics and Financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995.

With over 30 years of expertise in research and development in health policy, economics and financing, he has held prominent positions such as Founding Head of the International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding at the Faculty of Medicine UKM, Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health and Founding Chair of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University.

Notably, he was honoured with the title of Emeritus Professor in Public Health by the Faculty of Medicine at UKM in November 2022.

Dr. Aljunid’s international impact is evident through his consultancy work for prestigious organizations including the WHO, World Bank, AUSAID, GIZ and Asian Development Bank, where he has contributed to the development and implementation of casemix systems/DRGs for provider payment methods in National Health Financing programmes across 20 countries globally.

Moreover, his involvement as Co-chair of the Morbidity Technical Advisory Group for the ICD-11 Revision underscores his significant contributions to global health classification standards.

Currently, he is appointed by the Minister of Health Malaysia as a member of the National Committee for Implementation of DRGs for Provider Payment and the Technical Advisory Group for DRGs in MOH.

He was the developer of a number of DRG groupers including MY-DRG, MY-CBG, UNU-CBG and INA-CBG.

With a prolific publication record exceeding 300 journal articles, books, book chapters and scientific reports, along with over 350 presentations at local and international conferences and more than 140,000 citations with an h-index of 89, Dr. Aljunid continues to be a leading figure in advancing the field of public health and health economics on a global scale.

He has conducted more than 55 research projects, supervised 50 PhD candidates and more than 200 Master students.

He is recognised as one of the top 2% most cited scientists by Stanford University in 2025.

His recent book is “How much is the Cost of Coding Errors? A Study on Factors Influencing Quality of Clinical Coding in Implementation of Casemix System in Hospital Services.”