Giri Shan Rajahram

Honorary Visiting Associate Professor

Tel (65) 6516 2338
Email gsrajahram@gmail.com

Giri Shan Rajahram

Dr Giri is an Infectious Diseases and Global Health Consultant in Sabah, Borneo. His clinical work involves providing care to the state’s indigenous and marginalised communities. He is responsible for guiding policy and providing technical advice on infectious diseases and clinical medicine for Sabah and Malaysia. Aside from that, he is also a transdisciplinary global health practitioner leading a multinational research team that addresses epidemiological trends and clinical research on regional infectious diseases of interest in Southeast Asia. He was awarded the Endeavour Leadership Award for his research on Plasmodium knowlesi malaria. His team’s research findings have been communicated to various stakeholders, enabling the implementation of evidence-based health policies in Malaysia and the World Health Organisation’s malaria treatment guidelines.

Affiliation

  • NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
  • Consultant Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health Malaysia (Primary)
  • Associate Professor, Monash University Malaysia (Adjunct)
  • Menzies School of Health Research(Honorary Clinical Fellow)

Research Areas

  • Epidemiology
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Global Health

Teaching Areas

  • Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Global Health

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • MD (USM)
  • MRCP (UK)
  • DTM&H (Liverpool)
  • MSc (Oxon)
  • AM(Malaysia)
  • Fellowship Infectious Diseases

Awards/Honours (Post-PhD)

  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia
  • Fellow, College of Physicians Malaysia
  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Observership at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Oxford-Hoffmann and GRoW @ Annenberg, Sloane Robinson Foundation – Keble College Scholarship and Leadership Award, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Endeavour Executive Leadership Award, Australia

Career History

  • Head, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital II, Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Consultant Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health Malaysia

Administrative Leadership

  • Head, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital II, Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Clinician-Scientist-Researcher Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria
  • Principal Investigator Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria
  • Malaysia Medical Council, National Speciality Education Committee,
  • Country Ambassador Malaysia, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Selected Publications

  • GS Rajahram, D L Heymann; Section Editor, 3rd Edition Textbook International Encyclopaedia of Public Health, 2024 Elsevier, ISBN: 9780323999670
    https://shop.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-public-health/quah/978-0-323-99967-0
  • Klim, H., William, T., Mellors, J. Caolann B, Rajahram G.S et al. Serological analysis in humans in Malaysian Borneo suggests prior exposure to H5 avian influenza near migratory shorebird habitats. Nat Commun 15, 8863 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53058-y
  • Rosa, W.E., Pandey, S., Wisniewski, R., Blinderman, C.D., Cheong, M.W.L., Correa-Morales, J.E., Cubides-Diaz, D.A., Folorunso, S., Gafer, N., Marhoom, M.K.A., Newman, T., Ntizimira, C., Obadare, T.O., Papan, C., Perez-Cruz, P., Radbruch, L., Rajahram, G.S., Reyes-Barros, T.A., Salins, N., Saravu, K., Sullivan, D.R., & Dee. E.C. Antimicrobials in serious illness and end-of-life care: Lifting the veil of silence. The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)008326/abstract
  • Mesinovic, M., Wong, X.C., Rajahram, G.S. et al. At-admission prediction of mortality and pulmonary embolism in an international cohort of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 using statistical and machine learning methods. Sci Rep 14, 16387 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63212-7
  • Tan AF, Sakam SSb, Piera K, Rajahram GS, William T, Barber BE, et al. (2024) Neutrophil activation, acute lung injury and disease severity in Plasmodium knowlesi malaria. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(8): e0012424. https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0012424
  • Rajahram, G.S., Barber, B.E., William, T. et al. Deaths From Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria: Case Series and Systematic Review, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 69, Issue 10, 15 November 2019, Pages 1703–1711, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz011
  • Rajahram G.S, Barber BE, William T, Grigg MJ, Menon J, Yeo TW, Anstey NM. Falling Plasmodium knowlesi malaria death rate among adults despite rising incidence, Sabah, Malaysia, 2010-2014. Emerg Infect Dis 2016;22(1).
  • Rajahram, G.S., Barber, B.E., William, T. et al. Deaths due to Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: association with reporting as Plasmodium malariae and delayed parenteral artesunate. Malar J11, 284 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-284
  • Cooper D.J Rajahram, G.S., Barber, B.E., William, T. et al.; Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Sabah, Malaysia, 2015-2017: ongoing increase in incidence despite near-elimination of the human-only Plasmodium species; Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 19. pii: ciz237. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz237
  • DJ Cooper, M J Grigg, K Plewes, GS Rajahram, et al. The Effect of Regularly Dosed Acetaminophen vs No Acetaminophen on Renal Function in Plasmodium knowlesiMalaria (PACKNOW): A Randomized, Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 75, Issue 8, 15 October 2022, Pages 1379–1388, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac152

A complete list of publications can be viewed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giri-Rajahram

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