Ahmed Hashim

Contact

• workRoom A40C Clinical Sciences Building
  Nottingham City Hospital
  Hucknall Road
  Nottingham
  NG5 1PB
  UK
• work0115 823 1718
• ahmed.hashim@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Ahmed Hashim completed his undergraduate medical degree at Baghdad University/ College of Medicine, after which he worked as a junior resident physician in Iraq. He was awarded the degree of Master's in Public Health from the University of Nottingham in 2008. He was then appointed as an Epidemiologist/Biostatistician for a year before beginning his PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health, also at the University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Pandemic influenza, influenza vaccine, advanced statistical analysis, quantitative and qualitative, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, epidemiology, bio-statistics

Teaching Summary

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Research Summary

Ahmed Hashim's main area of research interest is pandemic influenza. He is currently working in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe, and worked in Copenhagen during… read more

Current Research

Ahmed Hashim's main area of research interest is pandemic influenza. He is currently working in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe, and worked in Copenhagen during 2009/2010, assessing how countries reacted to the pandemic of that year.

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During the influenza pandemic of 2009, he was also involved in working with the Flu Clinical Information Network (FLU-CIN), funded by Department of Health. This work involved clinical and epidemiological data collection of patients with confirmed H1N1 influenza infection admitted to hospitals in the UK.

He also works on systematic reviews, such as the following:

• A project funded by WHO (Geneva) to assess the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in immune-suppressed patients.
• A recently completed systematic review that assessed the effect of passive smoking on the respiratory tract infection in children younger than two years.