====== Fahad Razak ======

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Dr. **Fahad Razak**, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a Canadian epidemiologist based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]]. 

He has a multidisciplinary background including [[biomedical engineering]], epidemiology and [[public health]], and a medical degree with specialization in general internal medicine.

===== Career and Affiliations =====

==== Harvard University ====

Razak is a David E. Bell Fellow at the [[Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies]] at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health|School of Public Health]].((//Postdoctoral Fellows.// (2014, March 26). Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies | Harvard School of Public Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20140326025044/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/about-us/people/fellows/))

As a Bell Fellow, Fahad studied the causes and consequences of the changing shape of chronic disease risk factor distributions at the population level, with special focus on body weight. He worked with Harvard Professor of Population Health and Geography [[S.V. Subramanian]] to show that in low and middle income countries, reliance on conventional and widely used metrics of population change may underestimate the degree of weight gain among high weight individuals and overestimate weight gain in low weight individuals. He subsequently extended these findings to other risk factors for chronic disease and examine the patterning of these changes on social and demographic factors.

==== Ontario Health ====

Razak co-leads [[Ontario Health]]'s General Medicine Quality Improvement Network (GeMQIN), which focuses on improving the care of hospitalized medical patients.((//2021 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship - Dr. Fahad Razak.// (2020, December 22). PSI Foundation. https://archive.ph/vatFp))

==== University of Toronto ====

Razak is an Assistant Professor at the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] under the [[University of Toronto]].((Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. //Fahad Razak.// University of Toronto. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from https://archive.ph/OgSpl)) He is also a faculty member of the new [[Institute for Pandemics]].((//Fahad Razak.// Institute for Pandemics. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/pandemics/profile/asst-prof-fahad-razak/))

==== Unity Health Toronto ====

Razak is an internist at [[St. Michael's Hospital]] under [[Unity Health Toronto]].((//Fahad Razak.// (2021, July 7). Unity Health Toronto. https://unityhealth.to/physician-directory/dr-fahad-razak/)) He is also a research scientist at the [[Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute]], located at St. Michael's.((//Dr. Fahad Razak receives Dean’s Emerging Leader Award.// (2018, April 9). University of Toronto Department of Medicine. https://archive.ph/v4ESt))

He has received research funding from the [[St. Michael's Hospital Foundation]].((Razak, F. (2022, May 12). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Fahad-Razak_20220512.pdf))
==== GEMINI ====

Razak is co-lead and co-founder of [[medical_technology_companies:GEMINI]], a "big data collaborative" that serves as a hospital data & analytics study program.((//Fahad Razak.// Gemini. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from https://archive.ph/5mTZk)) The program is a collaboration with [[Ontario Health]].

==== PSI Foundation ====

In December 2020, Razak was announced as the 2021 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellow under the [[PSI Foundation]].((//2021 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship - Dr. Fahad Razak.// (2020, December 22). PSI Foundation. https://archive.ph/vatFp))

==== CanCOV ====

Razak is a Principal Investigator of the [[Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study]] (CanCOV), funded by the CIHR.((//Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV).// (2020, June 1). Canadian Research Information System. https://archive.ph/s2N2v))

==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====

During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Razak has served as a member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/)) On April 29, 2022, it was announced that Razak would replace the outgoing [[Peter Juni]] as the OST's Scientific Director.((The Canadian Press. (2022, April 29). //Toronto physician Dr. Fahad Razak named new scientific director of expert COVID advisory group.// Ottawa Citizen. https://ottawacitizen.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/toronto-physician-named-new-scientific-director-of-expert-covid-advisory-group/wcm/2bdb9aac-6fac-483b-93da-d615089e05e6))

===== Research =====

==== Funding ====

Razak claims to have received greater than $25 million in grants from the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[National Sciences and Engineering Research Council]] (NSERC), the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH),((Gausman, J., Meija Guevara, I., Subramanian, S. V., & Razak, F. (2018). //Distributional change of women’s adult height in low- and middle-income countries over the past half century: An observational study using cross-sectional survey data.// PLOS Medicine, 15(5), e1002568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002568)) and the [[Canadian Cancer Society]].((//ONCO-GEMINI: ONcology Continuum GEneral Medicine INpatient Initiative; comparing cancer patients admitted to oncology vs non-oncology services.// (2018, August 1). Canadian Research Information System. https://archive.ph/10bke))

Razak received funding from the [[Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative]], a $6,000,000 fund offered to faculty at the [[University of Toronto]] and its affiliated hospitals.((Razak, F. (2022, May 12). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Fahad-Razak_20220512.pdf)) The funds were to be used for research into topics including (but not limited to) diagnostics, therapeutics, [[COVID-19 vaccines|vaccines]], or technologies for clinical management (e.g. ventilators, masks).((Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. (2020). //Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative Application Guidelines.// University of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20220515023826/https://research.utoronto.ca/media/491/download))

Razak has also received research funding from the [[Canadian Frailty Network]],((Adekpedjou, R., Heckman, G. A., Hébert, P. C., Costa, A. P., & Hirdes, J. (2022). //Outcomes of advance care directives after admission to a long-term care home: DNR the DNH?// BMC Geriatrics, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02699-5)) including related to [[COVID-19]].((Brown, H. K., Saha, S., Chan, T. C. Y., Cheung, A. M., Fralick, M., Ghassemi, M., Herridge, M., Kwan, J., Rawal, S., Rosella, L., Tang, T., Weinerman, A., Lunsky, Y., Razak, F., & Verma, A. A. (2022). //Outcomes in patients with and without disability admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study.// Canadian Medical Association Journal, 194(4), E112–E121. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211277))

==== Awards ====

In 2019, Razak received a New Investigator Award from the [[Canadian Society of Internal Medicine]].((//Previous Award Winners.// Canadian Society of Internal Medicine. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from https://csim.ca/awards-abstracts/previous-award-winners/))

===== Media =====

  * https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-can-we-follow-the-british-model-to-tame-the-virus-by-canada-day/
  * https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-needs-new-rules-now-for-fully-vaccinated-people/
  * https://muckrack.com/fahad-razak/articles