The term allied health embraces a great many professions, but there is little agreement as to the exact numbers. Equally unclear is the proportion of the overall health workforce represented by allied health professionals. The inability to portray a clear sense of the identity of allied health results in the following kinds of shortcomings:

Understanding and support are difcult to generate because the term allied health is not clear in the minds of the general public, and the prospective students are unaware of the many attractive career possibilities in allied health discipline.

Some disciplines may be perceived as being part of the allied health realm, but this is not recognized at the level of their respective professional associations. Adequate inuence is difcult to bear upon elected ofcials who are required to provide funding to address the workforce problems because of the fractured nature of the allied health discipline. Many students enrolled in allied health institutions nish their education without being aware of the fact that they are allied health professionals.

Unlike other kinds of health professions where the names of institution contain words such as nursing and medicine, only 25 of the 113 institutions in Pakistan offering such courses, have the word allied health in their names. In some cases, the omission is justied because the institution includes other kinds of programs such as nursing and pharmacy as well. In other instances, however, there is a greater

It is the prime time to analyze and implement the goals of extensive higher education in Allied Health Sciences (AHS) through profound planning for the future of Pakistan. These objectives are supposed to require comprehensive attention by competent authorities regarding the accreditation, extensive health education, promotion, applied research and outstanding publications.

The Punjab Government in collaboration with University of Health Sciences (UHS) had launched 17 new BSc (Hons) courses besides two five-year programmes including Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D) and Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT).

The initiative was taken keeping in view the global importance of AHS and to replace the paramedics by the qualified allied health ‘scientists’. The scheme was also meant to accommodate those students who failed to get admission in MBBS in government and private colleges due to difference of meager ratio of aggregate scores.

In 2012, the Visionary Chairman BOG of University of Lahore established tha FAHS at University of Lahore. This decision brought hope for thousands of disappointed Pre-Medical students who failed to get admission in MBBS/BDS in Medical Colleges. During these four years, the faculty of Allied Health Sciences at University of Lahore became the largest faculty offering 24 AHS programs from Undergraduate to Ph.D through its eight departments.

It was not an easy task as there were challenges from same mindsets of senior people from medical and dental colleges inside the university as well as from outside. First ever Ph.D Program in Physical therapy and medical diagnostic ultrasound were offered along with Ph.D in

World has become a global village and the scientific community is working by keeping pace with each other to build a common edifice of knowledge and awareness. The purpose is to find solutions to the challenging problems the world is facing these days in every sector whether its health, allied health, pharmaceutical industry, physical sciences or engineering etc. Developing countries including Pakistan are also trying hard to be a part of international research community. Government of Pakistan including Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, are putting a lot of efforts to promote science and research in Pakistani Institutions.

A new researcher or student has several questions in mind about starting of a project. Depending upon the type of study; whether basic or applied, a researcher should first develop a research question or hypothesis in his mind. Research question should be addressing the most recent challenge faced by the society. It should be having a wide scope, benefitting a diversity of strata and their problems.

Data mining and survey of literature should be done afterwards to see the types of researches done previously on the same area. It will help the researcher in identification of the magnitude of the problem, current situation of the problem area, existing knowledge and helps determining the direction of further action. A well maintained record should be kept during all the research process and all sources of information should be noted.

Publication of a journal or a book is a team work involving multidisciplinary fields, expertise and cooperative members. The members may include an Editor in chief, Editor/s, reviewers, statistician/s, proof reading/English grammar experts, designers, IT experts, co-ordinator/s, field of specialization experts etc.

An editor is basically the leader of the team who is supervising the whole work to make it coherent and presentable. He should be well aware of the publication rules and ethics. He should always be co operative with the team members and guide them accordingly. As this is a very tedious job, the editor has to remain always cool headed. Editor should have the quality of converting the ordinarily presented work into a masterpiece according to the national as well as international standards.

A study can be an original article, review article, systematic meta-analysis, case report etc. An editor also invites articles from the professional experts/ scientists in that particular field. As, editor is the captain of the ship, he designs the main theme and outlook of the journal and adds the required ingredients accordingly.

We are living in the era of information technology and the span between the thought process and execution of an idea is ever squeezing, making the workplace of today immensely competitive. The somewhat audacious yet ambitious research endeavors of today are encouraging the researcher to logically step over the boundaries from one paradigm to another – may that be any eld of sciences. The hospital are studying the effects of organizational culture on the performance of their medical staff while the marketers are engaging in neurosciences to map out the purchase decision and thought process of the consumers. The responsibility to prepare the young minds for such diverse and challenging workplace in Allied Health settings, solely lies on the shoulders of academicians.

Like other science disciplines, there is an ocean of information and knowledge in Allied Health Sciences; both theoretical and empirical, readily available just a few clicks away. The trick to profoundly utilize that information for a quality research project, lies in the meticulous approach towards identifying a problem and then setting things in motion.

When the term “Pubic Health” is put forward, it not only prompts the scientic school of thought but also the artistic one. This discipline; public health, is an interdisciplinary in nature and plays its part on a multifaceted approach to the overall wellbeing of the humans – including prevention of diseases and increasing life span by the way of organized efforts and well dened options for people, organizations, institutes, nations and continents. . “Health” encompasses the deeper meaning of physical, mental as well as social well-being. Generally speaking it branches out to the following areas; Environmental health, community health, behavioral health, health economics, public policy, mental health and occupational safety, gender issues in health, sexual and reproductive health are other important subelds. Since it all converges at one single point of human wellbeing, it also arrives at the inherent and paradoxical nature of human choices – there it is more of an art than science that brings out the true color or solution to a problematic situation. For example how to educate people and promote awareness, how to get people (remote rural areas) who are living decades behind the civilized world to take a certain pill or boil water or properly manage human waste. A researcher in the eld of public health must equip him/herself with such tools that can turn an unfavorable situation in to favorable one so that ground realities could be unearthed. This requires a profound understanding of human behavior, and when we are required to understand the lived experience, cultural and social meanings and thick description & analysis of a case or phenomena – we need qualitative research. Qualitative research demand the researcher to immerse in the phenomena of interest and study