[1] Subsequently, Hyder moved to Johns Hopkins University and earned his MPH in 1993 and his PhD in 1998,[1] where Timothy D. Baker, a founding leader of international health, was one of his mentors, while Richard H. Morrow was his thesis advisor.
Hyder has been on several technical committees, advisory panels, and review groups over the past decades; most recently he was made a commissioner of The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission formed in January 2016.
Hyder has served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the World Health Organization and the World Bank, and is known for his work on burden of disease and injury measures, for developing the Healthy Life Years indicator, and building on the health systems approach to injury prevention and control in developing countries.
[12] Hyder has co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications and numerous reports[7] for more than 20 years on issues related to health systems development, equity, and ethics in low- and middle-income countries of Africa and Asia.
"[15] Hyder has worked on bioethics and research ethics globally for over 20 years with a special focus on capacity development, funded by the U.S. Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health.