Prof. Dato' Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid

Professor Emeritus Dato' Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid is a Public Health Medicine Consultant and Professor of Health Economics, Policy and Management in the Department of Public Health Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He also serves as Professor of Community Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at IMU University.

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, and holds an MD from the National University of Malaysia and a Master of Science in Public Health from the National University of Singapore. In November 2022 the Faculty of Medicine at UKM conferred on him the title of Emeritus Professor in Public Health.

Over more than thirty years in health policy, economics and financing he has been Founding Head of the International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding at UKM, Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, and Founding Chair of Health Policy and Management at the Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University. His consultancy work for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, AUSAID, GIZ and the Asian Development Bank has put casemix systems and DRGs to work as provider payment methods in national health financing programmes across twenty countries, and he developed the MY-DRG, MY-CBG, UNU-CBG and INA-CBG groupers. As Co-chair of the Morbidity Technical Advisory Group for the ICD-11 Revision he has shaped global health classification standards; the Minister of Health Malaysia has appointed him to the National Committee for the Implementation of DRGs for Provider Payment and to the Ministry's Technical Advisory Group for DRGs.

He has published more than 300 journal articles, books, book chapters and scientific reports, given over 350 presentations at local and international conferences, and drawn more than 150,000 citations at an h-index of 89. Stanford University recognised him among the top 2% most cited scientists in 2025. He has led over 55 research projects and supervised 50 PhD candidates and more than 200 Master's students. His most 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".