Professor Aljunid is currently appointed as the Founding Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management and Director of Postgraduate Programmes of Faculty of Public Health Kuwait University. His main interest is in the strengthening of health care system of developing countries through research and development in health policy, health economics and financing. He has conducted more than 50 research projects; most of the projects are to support policy decisions on health economics and financing in a number of developing countries.He is currently involves in supporting a number of developing countries to implement Social Health Insurance programmes. His work on Social Health Insurance covers many countries around the world including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Mongolia, Vietnam, Bhutan, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Nepal, Uruguay, Iran, Chile, Kenya and Ghana. He served as the Co-chair Morbidity Technical Advisory Group of ICD-11 Revision of World Health Organisation-Family of International Classification from 2007-2016. He is the Founding President of Malaysian Health Economics Association (MY-HEA) and Malaysian Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (MY-ISPOR) and the current Deputy-President of the Public Health Medicine Specialists’ Association of Malaysia.