Dr. Shariq Khoja

Founder & CEO Tech4Life Enterprises

Oakville ON

An innovator, researcher, and planner in global health for over 15 years.

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Biography

Dr Shariq Khoja is a seasoned researcher and high profile leader in the area of eHealth and eLearning. Dr. Khoja has worked as Advisor on Evidence, Capacity and Policy for mHealth Alliance at the United Nations Foundation. He was the founding Director for the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) eHealth Resource Centre, and a faculty member at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya and Karachi, Pakistan. He has an extensive background and interest in using eHealth to facilitate health care services and education. He has experience of over 15 years leading Health systems initiatives in developing countries.

Dr. Khoja currently leads eHealth initiatives in about 10 countries of South and Central Asia and East Africa. His research interests focus on creating evidence and policies to guide the implementation of eHealth in developing countries. Dr. Khoja currently holds Grand Challenges grant in Mental Health and Rising Star in Global Health. Dr. Khoja has successfully raised over six million dollars in research funding from International donors.

Industry Expertise

Program Development

Public Policy

Information Technology and Services

Health and Wellness

Research

Areas of Expertise

Global Health

Public Health

Ehealth

Epidemiology

Program Evaluation

Clinical Research

Informatics

Reproductive Health

Capacity Building

Healthcare Management

Qualitative Research

Medical Education

Telehealth

Education

University of Calgary

Ph.D.

Health Research

2006

Aga Khan University

MBBS

Medicine

1996

Affiliations

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology : Associate Professor

Media Appearances

Medical innovation: Wristband for pregnant women launched

The Express Tribune online

2013-09-25

“Every woman should be monitored regularly for her vital signs, which is essential to ensure a healthy pregnancy,” said Dr Shariq Khoja, a member of the team. “The wristbands will revolutionise the time-consuming procedure of testing vital signs. The end user can benefit from this innovation by mid-2014.”...

Untreated Mental Illness the Invisible Fallout of War and Poverty

Inter Press Service online

2012-10-10

There is only one psychiatrist in Badakshan Province where Scott and colleague Shariq Khoja will be working. “We want to educate community health workers and get them to talk about mental disabilities,” Scott told IPS. To reach Afghan youth, informative text (SMS) messages sent to their mobile phones will hopefully reduce some of the stigma and get some discussion going, he said...

Event Appearances

Speaker

2012 eHealth Conference University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

2012-01-22

Articles

Impacts of e-health on the outcomes of care in low-and middle-income countries: where do we go from here?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

2012-01-01

E-health encompasses a diverse set of informatics tools that have been
designed to improve public health and health care. Little information is available on the
impacts of e-health programmes, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. We ...

A systematic review of the use of telehealth in Asian countries

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

2009-01-01

We conducted a systematic review of the literature on telehealth in Asia. The
Medline database was searched, together with three specialist journals, for peer-reviewed
articles published in the ten years to June 2007 which were related to any telehealth ...

e-Health readiness assessment tools for healthcare institutions in developing countries

Telemedicine and e-Health

2007-01-01

e-Health Readiness refers to the preparedness of healthcare institutions or communities for
the anticipated change brought by programs related to Information and Communications
Technology (ICT). This paper presents e-Health Readiness assessment tools developed ...

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