Dr. AKM Fazlur Rahman
Professor (Adjunct Faculty) & Advisor

PhD – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden – 2000
MPhil in Preventive and Social Medicine-Dhaka University- 1991
MBBS – Mymensingh Medical College, Dhaka University: 1982

Academic:

  • Lecturer in Community Medicine in Medical Colleges of Bangladesh for 3 years
  • Assistant and Associate Professor in the department of Epidemiology in the Institute of Child and Mother Health for 12 years.
  • Professor of Epidemiology in Bangladesh University of Health Sciences for 9 years.

Administrative:

  • Executive Director, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh for 18 years

More than 250 articles published in peer reviewed journal including Lancet, BMJ, Injury Prevention, PloS ONE, BMC, Pediatrics. 

  • World Bank Scholarship for PhD study Asia Safe Community Champion Award
  • Best oral presentation in International Pediatric Association Congress in Pediatrics, Melbourne in 2013

Conducted more than 100 research as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator on different public health issues including maternal and child health, injuries, NCDs, Mental Health, and climate change and health.

  • Vice President: Epidemiological Society of Bangladesh
  • EC member: Public Health Association, Bangladesh
  • EC member: Asian Safe Community Network
  • Chairman: Nakla Foundation, Dhaka
  • Life Member: Community Medicine Teacher’s Association