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Dr. Ghulam Qader Qader

Tuberculosis programme physician and researcher, Kabul

His published work measures what Afghanistan’s tuberculosis programme finds, and where it has to look harder. A teleradiology case-finding study has to answer the same question.

Seat
Research design, founding advisor
Based
Kabul, Afghanistan
Indexed papers
Six, 2017–2023; lead author on three
Field
Tuberculosis programme delivery and operational research
Published from
Challenge TB, Management Sciences for Health · STAR project, Public Health Institute

Inside the national programme

Dr. Qader worked on the USAID-funded Challenge TB project at Management Sciences for Health in Kabul, alongside the Ministry of Public Health’s National TB Program. His papers are written from inside that programme: each one counts what a change in delivery found.

He led and is corresponding author of the published account of Kabul’s urban DOTS expansion. From 2009 to 2015 the number of facilities offering DOTS grew from 22 to 85, the case notification rate for all forms of TB rose from 59 to 125 per 100,000, and treatment success rose from 31% to 67%.1

The published record

Figure 1. Dr. Qader’s papers indexed in PubMed, by year of publication. Full citations are in the references below.

Studies he led

A screening study at mental-health facilities found 275 TB cases among 8,598 patients.2

A survey of 3,686 health workers across 23 provinces found nearly half positive for latent TB infection.3 He is its corresponding author; the protocol was approved by the Ministry of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board, and the study was funded by USAID and the Global Fund.

Studies he co-authored

The national analysis of household contact screening: 586,292 contacts screened and 10,896 cases found.4

The study of what private health facilities contribute to urban case-finding,5 the question closest to the one this platform is built to answer.

Outside tuberculosis, a national analysis of malaria indicators before and after community-based management was scaled up, written from the Public Health Institute’s STAR project in Kabul.6

On the advisory board

The research design seat

The seat decides what the studies must prove and how: the endpoints a teleradiology case-finding study must meet, the protocol that meets them, and the Ministry of Public Health review pathway his own studies went through.

The program his seat shapes first istuberculosis case-finding.

Propose a study

References

  1. 1Qader G, Hamim A, Sayedi M, Rashidi M, Manzoor L, Seddiq MK, Ikram N, Suarez PG. Addressing tuberculosis control in fragile states: Urban DOTS experience in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2009–2015. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(5):e0178053. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178053
  2. 2Qader G, Seddiq MK, Rashidi KM, Hamim A, Akhgar MH, Ahmad B, Dryer S, Somji A, Melese M, Suarez PG. Prevalence of tuberculosis among mentally ill patients in conflict-stricken Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2019;89:45–50. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2019.08.020
  3. 3Qader GQ, Seddiq MK, Rashidi KM, Manzoor L, Hamim A, Akhgar MH, Rahman L, Dryer S, Boyd-Boffa M, Somji A, Melese M, Suarez PG. Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among health workers in Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(6):e0252307. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252307
  4. 4Sayedi SM, Seddiq MK, Rashidi MK, Qader G, Ikram N, Melese M, Suarez PG. Active household contact screening for tuberculosis and provision of isoniazid preventive therapy to under-five children in Afghanistan. PLOS ONE. 2020;15(10):e0240031. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240031
  5. 5Hamim A, Seddiq MK, Sayedi SM, Rashid MK, Qader GQ, Manzoor L, Melese M, Suarez PG. The contribution of private health facilities to the urban tuberculosis program of Afghanistan. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis. 2023;70(1):8–11. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2022.03.005
  6. 6Mahmoodi SD, Atarud AA, Sediqi AW, Gallalee S, McFarland W, Aynie TB, Nahzat MS, Hamid H, Qader GQ, Tamim MS, Mirzazadeh A. Trends in malaria indicators after scale-up of community-based malaria management in Afghanistan. Malaria Journal. 2022;21(1):165. doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04174-x