Mohammed Afzal, MBBS, MPH, MSc
Epidemiologist & Public Health Researcher
Infectious Disease • Environmental Epidemiology • Reproductive Health • Real World Data
Epidemiologist who loves working at the intersection of infectious diseases, environmental health, reproductive epidemiology and population health research.

What I work on?
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Surveillance, outbreak investigation and emerging infectious diseases.
- Environmental Epidemiology
Air pollution, heat exposure and environmental determinants of health.
- Reproductive Epidemiology
ART/IVF outcomes, registry data and environmental exposures.
- Epidemiological Methods & Data
R, survival analysis, regression modelling, spatial epidemiology and real-world health data.
- Evidence Synthesis
Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, literature screening and evidence appraisal.
- Scientific Communication
manuscripts, technical reports, presentations and translating evidence for different audiences.
Selected Experience
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) — Junior Scientific Expert
Infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response.


Lund University — Research Participant
Environmental and reproductive epidemiology.

Jhpiego — Team Leader
Maternal and public health programmes.

UNICEF — Short-term Consultant
Public health immunization programmes and health system strengthening
Selected Publications
- Continued circulation of mpox: an epidemiological and phylogenetic assessment, European Region, 2023 to 2024.
Eurosurveillance, 2024 — First author - The risk of tick-borne encephalitis virus transmission via substances of human origin.
ECDC Technical Report, 2024
Contact
Email: mohammedafzal1108@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mohammed-afzal-29761ba1


ORCID: 0000-0002-3340-3864
About me
I am a physician and epidemiologist with experience in infectious disease surveillance, public health research, environmental epidemiology and reproductive health.
My background combines clinical medicine with epidemiological research and population health. I have worked on infectious disease surveillance and outbreak-related activities at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and I currently contribute to research in Sweden involving environmental exposures, reproductive health, registry data and quantitative epidemiological methods.
My work has included infectious diseases such as mpox, West Nile virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Oropouche virus, as well as research on air pollution, assisted reproduction, heat exposure and climate-related health risks.
I particularly enjoy working with real-world health data and applying epidemiological methods to questions with direct public health relevance.