Program Manager
International Vaccine Institute (IVI), South Korea
Email: hanifshaikh.pune@gmail.com
VALIDATE Role:
Network Associate
Research Keywords:
TB, Clinical Trials
Biography:
Dr. Hanif Shaikh is a global health and clinical research professional with over 18 years of experience in vaccine development, infectious disease research, and implementation of early- to late-phase clinical trials in low- and middle-income countries. He holds a PhD in Pharmacology and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). He has led multinational studies with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and CDSA-THSTI, contributing to research on tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and influenza vaccines. His work spans protocol development, regulatory strategy, ethics submissions, and field-based trial execution.
Dr. Shaikh’s core research interests include vaccine clinical development, GCP implementation, and translational research for neglected diseases, especially tuberculosis. He has been actively involved in capacity building for biomanufacturing, regulatory system strengthening, and clinical trial infrastructure in LMICs. As a program lead for IVI’s GTH-B (Global Training Hub for Biomanufacturing), he has supported institutional readiness across Africa and Asia by training national regulatory authorities, ethics committees, and research teams. He is passionate about fostering South–South collaboration, mentoring early-career researchers, and advancing equitable global health innovation through interdisciplinary partnerships.
Key Publications:
- Shaikh Hanif, Vaishali Undale, Anil Pardeshi, Shweta Jadhav, Pratiksha Jagtap, Parth Aphale, Anand Kawade, Mahesh Asalkar, Suneth Agampodi, Aman Upaganlawar, and Chandrashekhar Upasani. 2024. "Knowledge, Attitudes, Awareness, and Factors Associated with the Uptake of Influenza Vaccine among Pregnant Women in Urban Pune." Indian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research,11,no 2, 2024, page 457-464, https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijogr.2024.083.
- Shaikh Hanif, Priyanka V. Mahadik, Parveen Shaikh, Anil Pardeshi, Shravani P. Wakte, Krishna S. Dakh, Mahesh Asalkar, Vaishali R. Undale, Anand S. Kawade, and Chandrashekhar Upasani. 2024. "Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials: Need, Ethical and Scientific Considerations and Current Status." Journal of South Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 16, no. 2: 126–133. https://doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10006-2401
- Shaikh Hanif, Pranesha Koli, Vaishali Undale, Anil Pardeshi, Mahesh Asalkar, Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, Anand Kawade, and Chandrashekhar Upasani. 2023. "Safety and Protective Effects of Influenza Vaccination in Pregnant Women on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Pune, India: A Cross-Sectional Study" Vaccines 11, no. 6: 1034. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11061034
- Borah Slater, Khushboo, Daniel Kim, Pooja Chand, Ye Xu, Hanif Shaikh, and Vaishali Undale. 2023. "A Current Perspective on the Potential of Nanomedicine for Anti-Tuberculosis Therapy" Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 8, no. 2: 100. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8020100
- Khalid Ali Syed , Tarun Saluja , Heeyoun Cho , Amber Hsiao , Hanif Shaikh , T Anh Wartel , Vittal Mogasale , Julia Lynch , Jerome H Kim , Jean-Louis Excler , Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, Review on the Recent Advances on Typhoid Vaccine Development and Challenges Ahea, Clin Infect Dis, 2020 Jul 29;71(Supplement_2):S141-S150. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa504
- Hanif Shaikh, Julia Lynch, Jerome Kim, Jean Louis Excler, Current and Future Cholera Vaccines, Vaccine, Volume 38, Supplement 1, 29 February 2020, Pages A118-A126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.12.011
- Prasad S.Kulkarni, Sajjad Desai, TusharTewari, Anand Kawade, Nidhi Goyal, Bishan Swarup Garg, Dinesh Kumar,Suman Kanungo Veena Kamat, Gagandeep Kang, Ashish Bavdekar Sudhir Babji, SanjayJuvekar, Byomkesh Manna, Shanta Dutta Rama Angurana Deepika Dewan Abhijeet Dharmadhikari Jagdish K.Zade Rajeev, M.Dhere, Alan Fix, Maureen Power, Vidyasagar Uprety, Varsha Parulekar, IksungCho, Temsunaro R.Chandola, Vikash K.Kedia, AbhishekRaut, JorgeFlores, Hanif Shaikh, Lalit Gupta, RakeshPatil, Mohd.Aslam, AlokArya, Farhana Rafiqi, Subodh S.Gupta, Chetna H.Maliye, P.V.Bahulekar, , Jayanta Saha, Ranjitha S.Shetty, Muralidhar M.Kulkarni, Chythra V. Raj, A randomized Phase III clinical trial to assess the efficacy of a bovine-human reassortant pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in Indian infants, Vaccine, Volume 35, issue 45, 27 October 2017, page 6228-6237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.09.014
- Nita Bhandari PhD, Ashish Bavdekar DNB, Jacob John MD, Anand Kawade MD, Prof Gagandeep Kang PhD , Sanjay Juvekar PhD, Prof Jayaprakash Muliyil DrPH , Alok Arya MPharm, Hanif Shaikh MPharm, Vinod Abraham MPH , et al, Efficacy of a Monovalent Human-Bovine (116E) Rotavirus Vaccine in Indian Infants: A Randomised Double Blind Placebo Controlled Trial, The Lancet, 2014,June21; 383(I9935); 2136 – 2143.
- Nita Bhandari, Ashish Bavdekar, Jacob John, Kalpana Antony, Anand Kawade, Gagandeep Kang, Sudeep Singh Rathore, SanjayJuvekar, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Alok Arya, Hanif Shaikh, Vinod Abraham, et al. Efficacy of a monovalent human bovine(116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian children in second year of life, Vaccine, 2014,August 11, volume 32, supplement 1, A110-A116
- Md. Hanif Shaikh, Anil Pardeshi, Parveen Shaikh, Shriram Sadafal, Aman Upaganlawar, Anand Kawade, Drug Utilization for Acute Illness at Household Level in Rural Community of Vadu, Pune:
A Cross-sectional Study, American Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2018, Vol. 6, No. 1, 7-12 , DOI:10.12691/ajps-6-1-2 .
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