Dr Syed Aljunid is currently appointed as Professor of Health Economics, Policy and Management at Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, IMU University. He served as the Founding Professor and Chair of Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University from 2016 to 2023. He was the Director of Postgraduate Programmes of Faculty of Public Health Kuwait University. He was the Founding Head of International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding, a centre of excellence on casemix and health economics research in Faculty of Medicine UKM, which was established in 2011. He is the first Malaysian to obtained PhD in Health Economics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. He was appointed as the first Professor of Health Economics in Malaysia by UKM in 2000. Prior to this he served as a Senior Research Fellow of United Nations University International Institute for Global Health from 2006 to 2014. He obtained his MD from National University of Malaysia and Master of Science in Public Health from National University of Singapore.He has vast experience in health economic methodologies and techniques including Cost-Analysis, Budget Impact Analysis, Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit Analysis. He has conducted more than 50 research projects, most of the projects are to support policy decision on adoption of new technologies in developing countries. He is currently involves in supporting a number of developing countries to develop and implement casemix system for provider payment method under Social Health Insurance programmes.