Dr Saeed Hamid is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. He formerly served as Chair, Department of Medicine from 2008-2018. He trained in Medicine and Gastroenterology in the UK, and in Hepatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA. He has chaired the WHO Guidelines Development Group for Hepatitis C in 2015, 2017 and 2021, Hepatitis C Self-testing Guidelines group in 2022 and Hepatitis B Guidelines group in 2023. He has been an author on over 200 peer reviewed publications and three book chapters.