Rate My Professor Moazzam Zaidi

Dr. Moazzam Zaidi serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine within the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago. His academic background includes an MBBS and an MPH from the University of Karachi, a PhD from the University of Otago awarded in 2014, and RCIP from Ireland. Zaidi's doctoral thesis, titled "Participation in a blood and body fluid exposure programme in a multinational healthcare facility in an emerging country," focused on assessing participation and related factors in exposure prevention programs among healthcare workers.

Zaidi's research specializations center on occupational health and safety, including occupational injuries, noise-induced hearing loss, occupational cancer, and bloodborne pathogen exposures. Notable publications include "A Four-Year Review of Occupational Injuries among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital" (2025, Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, co-authored with Marwan Behisi), which reviews injury patterns over four years in a hospital setting. Another key paper is "Preventing Occupational Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review of Effective Interventions and Best Practices" (2025, New Zealand Journal of Health and Safety Practice, Vol. 2(1), with A.H.C. Clarke and Aiggan Kitila), synthesizing evidence from studies between 2000 and 2024 via PubMed searches to advocate for interventions such as engineering controls (quieter machinery, insulation), administrative controls (training, hearing tests), and hearing protection devices under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. He also co-authored the conference paper "Occupational Cancer in New Zealand" (2024, Occupational Medicine, with David McBride).

In 2024, Zaidi contributed to the Occupational Health Team, alongside Professor David McBride and Judy Currie, which received the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine Teaching Award at the University of Otago's Teaching Excellence Awards. His scholarly contributions enhance workplace health practices in healthcare and other sectors.