Health OpEd & Blogs

Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya. Why popping Azithromycin arbitrarily may make you drug-resistant. The Indian Express. Published September 13, 2022. https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health-specials/hdy-why-popping-azithromycin-arbitrarily-may-make-you-drug-resistant-8148758/

Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya and Shahul Hameed Ebrahim. The Winding Road to Free COVID Vaccines in India | Think Global Health [Internet]. Council on Foreign Relations. 2021 Available from: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/winding-road-free-covid-vaccines-india

Arathi, Shaffi, and Nayar. Restrictive measures in pandemic mitigation: On the ethics of using drones for surveillance https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/ [Internet]. IHP. 2021 [cited 2021 May 23]. Available from: https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/blogs/restrictive-measures-in-pandemic-mitigation-on-the-ethics-of-using-drones-for-surveillance/

Shahul Hameed Ebrahim, Muhammed Shaffi & N.M. Mujeeb Rahman. India’s vaccine saga continues with COVID-19 providing an opportunity to boost vaccine literacy [Internet]. Frontline. Frontline; 2021 [cited 2021 Feb 18]. Available from: https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/india-vaccine-saga-history-of-public-health-vaccination-covid19-provides-opportunity-to-boost-vaccine-literacy/article33551779.ece

K Rajasekharan Nayar; Anant Kumar; Muhammed Shaffi; Arathi P Rao; Anand Marthanda Pillai; S S Lal. Waiting in Health and Medical Care: A Preliminary Exploration | Medical Humanities. Medical Humanities. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/10/01/waiting-in-health-and-medical-care-a-preliminary-exploration/ Published October 2020

Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya. Are We Losing the Battle Against COVID-19? Delhi Post. https://delhipostnews.com/are-we-losing-the-battle-against-covid-19/ . Published July 8, 2020. 

Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Anant Kumar. The Science, Arts and Politics of COVID | Countercurrents. Countercurrents. https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/the-science-arts-and-politics-of-covid/ . Published April 30, 2020.

Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, K Mohandas, Muhammed Shaffi, Minu Abraham, Chitra Grace, Jinbert Lordson. Pilgrims’ Progress: Need for a Humanitarian Mass-Gathering Policy.  The BMJ Opinion, July 24, 2018, Available at https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2018/07/24/pilgrims-progress-need-for-a-humanitarian-mass-gathering-policy

Manpreet Khurmi and Muhammed Shaffi. The deaths of children in hospital in India. The BMJ Opinion, December 14, 2017, Available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/12/14/the-deaths-of-children-in-hospital-in-india/

Anant Kumar, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Chitra Grace, Lekha D Bhat. Happy Days Are ‘Not’ Here! Economic & Political Weekly Vol. 52, Issue No. 19, 13 May 2017 available at http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/19/commentary/happy-days-are-‘not’-here.html

Rakesh PS, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaffi, Chitra Grace. Do we need to consider universalizing the hepatitis A vaccine in Kerala, India? The BMJ Opinion, February 10, 2017, Available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/02/10/do-we-need-to-consider-universalising-the-hepatitis-a-vaccine-in-kerala-india/

Muhammed Shaffi, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar and SS Lal. Diphtheria Deaths in Kerala-signs of an impending crisis. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, Issue No. 43, 24 Oct 2015; available at http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/43/reports-states-web-exclusives/diphtheria-deaths-kerala.html