Profile

Biography

Kamran has a medical background with further training in chest diseases and public health and has carried out research in the UK, Latin America and South Asia in the area of lung health. He uses quantitative research methods to evaluate public health interventions and is particularly interested in research to help control tobacco use in south Asia.

Qualifications

• PhD University of Leeds, UK (part-time)
• FFPH Faculty of Public Health, UK
• MPH, University of Leeds, UK
• MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, UK
• MBBS University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Departmental roles

• Member of the Centre for Health and Population Sciences (CHaPS)

Research

Projects

• Muslim Communities Learning About Second-hand Smoke in Bangladesh (MCLASS II): An effectiveness-implementation hybrid study
• Tobacco cessation within TB programmes: A ‘real world’ solution for countries with dual burden of disease 
• Smokeless tobacco control in the UK: A supply chain analysis to inform policy
• Children learning about second-hand smoke (CLASS II): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
• A multi component intervention to reduce home-exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) during pregnancy and postnatal period: a randomised controlled trial
• Smoking prevention in young people: A cluster randomised trial of implementation intentions
• The efficacy of varenicline in achieving abstinence among hookah smokers: A two-arm, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial
• Improving TB outcomes by modifying life-style behaviours through a brief motivational intervention (PROLIFE)
• Using Islamic religious settings to prevent childhood obesity among South Asian children in the UK
• Building capacity for applied research to reduce harm in low and middle income countries (LMICs)
• Tobacco smoking among people living with HIV in Uganda: understanding the problem to inform effective interventions

Completed projects include:

• Adapting a behavioural support intervention for smokeless tobacco cessation in South Asians
• Behavioural support to help South Asians to quit smokeless tobacco
• To evaluate the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in HIV positive people: a Cochrane review
• Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation: Does it improve TB case detection rates?
• Mothers learning about second-hand smoke (MLASS)
• Muslim Communities Learning About Second-hand Smoke (MCLASS)
• CLASS (Children Learning About Second-hand Smoke): a cluster RCT. NIHR Public Health Research Programme Grant
• Communities Learning About Second-hand Smoke (CLASS) in Bangladesh- a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
• Social Norms Intervention to Prevent Smoking
• Developing an Intervention for Tobacco Cessation within Primary Care in Nepal
• Global Burden of Disease due to the Consumption of Smokeless Tobacco Products
• TB patients learning about second hand smoke (TBLASS): a pilot individual randomised controlled trial, Pakistan
• Second-hand Smoking and risk of pulmonary TB: a systematic review and a meta-analysis
• An analysis of the production and supply chain of smokeless tobacco in South Asia: a feasibility study 
• Action to Stop Smoking In Suspected Tuberculosis in Pakistan (ASSIST Pakistan): a cluster RCT. IDRC, Canada 

Research group(s)

• Public Health and Society

Supervision

• Kamran supervises in the topics of lung health, tobacco control and tuberculosis.

Publications

Full publications list

• Kamran Siddiqi's publications

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Infection and Disease - module leader

External activities

Memberships

• Chair (joint) Respiratory Diseases Programme – Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (2017 - present)
• Public Health Advisory Committee (core member and topic expert on smoking cessation)
• Chair of the Tobacco Section and a board member of the International Union against TB and Lung Diseases (2015 - present)

Editorial duties

• Deputy Editor-in-Chief – npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (2017 - present)

Invited talks and conferences

• Key-note speaker at the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference "Smokeless tobacco: The quiet killer" June 2014
• Invited speaker at World Lung Health Congress, Paris, October 2013
• Invited speaker at Tobacco End-game Conference, Delhi, September 2013

Media coverage

• Highly commended for BUPA Healthy Lives Prize (2012)
• Outstanding Paper of the Year Award: Literati Network Awards for Excellence - Emerald Literati Network (2011)