Journal of Global Public Health and Healthcare Innovation

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Affiliation: Institute of Eco Health, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, P R China

Muhammad Asif, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Eco-Health, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, China. He is a molecular parasitologist and biotechnologist with expertise in tick-borne diseases, zoonotic pathogens, molecular epidemiology, One Health surveillance, host-vector-pathogen interactions, and disease prediction. He received his PhD in Biotechnology from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, where his doctoral research focused on the molecular detection of blood-borne pathogens in cattle from South Punjab.

Dr. Asif’s research integrates field surveillance, molecular diagnostics, sequencing, phylogenetic analysis, bioinformatics, and epidemiological data interpretation to understand the distribution and transmission of vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens. His technical expertise includes DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, RT-PCR, qPCR-related workflows, ELISA, NGS sample preparation, WES/WGS data interpretation, sequence analysis, mutation analysis, phylogenetics, and GenBank submissions. He is also experienced in R, Python, MEGA, BioEdit, SnapGene, EndNote, and molecular epidemiology data handling.

His research portfolio includes studies on Anaplasma, Theileria, Babesia, Rickettsia, Brucella, Toxoplasma, and tick species of veterinary and public health importance. He has published first-author and co-authored research articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed book chapters, and submitted more than 300 sequences to GenBank. His current postdoctoral work focuses on tick-borne diseases, zoonotic pathogen surveillance, molecular detection, sequence interpretation, disease prediction, and international collaborative research.

Before joining Shandong University, Dr. Asif served as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Biology in Pakistan, where he taught life sciences and trained students in laboratory and research methods. His long-term research goal is to develop integrated One Health-based surveillance, diagnostic, and prediction platforms for emerging vector-borne and zoonotic diseases.