Research Data Repository

The King Edward Medical University established the Punjab Telemedicine Centre of Excellence during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to provide remote healthcare services and reduce hospital burden through online consultations and digital triage. The center connected patients with specialist doctors across multiple disciplines and later evolved into a permanent telemedicine department because of its large-scale impact and nationwide outreach. The service is still actively working and provides free medical consultation to patients through a simple phone call. In addition, a dataset containing records of more than 27,000 telemedicine patients is available for academic and research purposes.

The KEMU Biobank has been established as a modern research facility to support biomedical and clinical research through the systematic collection, processing, and preservation of biological samples along with associated clinical data. The biobank is designed to facilitate translational research, precision medicine, and evidence-based healthcare initiatives in Pakistan. Currently, more than 2,431 biological samples are available for clinical trials and research purposes, providing a valuable resource for national and collaborative scientific studies.

The Punjab Thalassemia Prevention Programme (PTPP), launched in 2009–10, is a government led initiative to reduce the burden of beta thalassemia and other genetic disorders in Punjab through free carrier screening, pre marital testing, and prenatal diagnosis across all 36 districts. It provides awareness campaigns, genetic counselling, and training for healthcare workers. The program also uses an integrated digital system to track screening, counselling, and diagnostic records to support population level prevention.

The Tuberculosis Indicators dataset compiles comprehensive WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) metrics on tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan (PAK), with a focus relevant to Punjab province surveillance. Spanning 1990–2021, it tracks 713 records across indicators like new/relapse cases, case-detection rates, treatment success rates, MDR/RR-TB prevalence, HIV co-infection, and diagnostic lab capacity. Key trends show notified cases rising from ~15k in the 1990s to over 316k by 2014, alongside improving treatment success (70–94%) and growing MDR-TB challenges. This data supports epidemiological analysis, policy evaluation, and research into TB control in high-burden regions like Punjab.

Heart failure remains a leading cause of mortality in Pakistan, particularly in Punjab, where cardiovascular diseases claim numerous lives annually. The Heart Failure Prediction dataset, collected Institute of Cardiology. It supports vital research in healthcare analytics for early intervention in Punjab’s high-risk population.

The Body Signal of Smoking Dataset is a publicly available secondary dataset containing demographic, physiological, and health examination related attributes together with smoking status information. The dataset comprises 55,692 records and 27 variables and can be used for academic and research purposes in areas including artificial intelligence, healthcare analytics, and smoking-pattern analysis.
The dataset includes a range of health and demographic attributes that can be utilized to investigate relationships between physiological and health indicators and smoking status and to develop and evaluate computational and machine learning models.
The dataset is associated with the 2023 NHIS Health Checkup Information dataset, publicly provided by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), Republic of Korea, which is identified as the upstream and original provider of the underlying health examination data.
The dataset deposited in the King Edward Medical University Research Data Repository is provided as an institutional research access and reproducibility copy of the dataset used in the associated research. The repository is intended to facilitate research transparency, accessibility, preservation, and reproducibility.

JSPARK Journal — officially known as the Journal of Society of Prevention, Advocacy and Research (JSPARK) — is the peer-reviewed, open-access medical research journal of King Edward Medical University. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, editorials, and clinical studies in medicine, public health, medical education, and healthcare research. JSPARK is recognized by HEC Pakistan and provides a platform for undergraduate students, postgraduate trainees, clinicians, and researchers to publish scientific work. The journal follows a quarterly publication model and features research from KEMU and other national and international institutions.

The “International Research Contributions for KEMCAANA Dr. Masood Akbar Research Award 2025” highlights the outstanding global research work of students and trainees from King Edward Medical University. It showcases original research, presentations, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses presented and recognized in leading international journals and scientific conferences. The work reflects strong multidisciplinary contributions across cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, oncology, psychiatry, surgery, public health, and medical education, demonstrating KEMU’s expanding global academic footprint through participation in prestigious forums such as AHA, ASCO, ACC, SOHO, and neurology conferences.