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Shahriar Ahmed

University of Waterloo, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, University of Cambridge, University of Dhaka, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

Research areas: Medicine · Infectious Diseases · Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology · Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis · Mycobacterium research and diagnosis

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8833-4130
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I am a medical graduate by training and have completed my MPhil in Population Health Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK. I also completed Masters in Health Economics back in 2011 from the University of Dhaka. I have been working at icddr,b since 2011 and currently occupying the position of Programme Coordinator along with a scientific rank of Assistant Scientist. I also Head the TB Research Unit.

I have been involved in TB related research for more than a decade now. I started my career as a member of the team that conducted the first ever drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) surveillance in South-East Asia. I was the coordinator of the surveillance sites that spread out to 20 districts out of 64 in Bangladesh. My passion for improving TB care stemmed from this exciting experience as I witnessed the gaps in TB care by extensively travelling to many different parts of the country. This experience shifted my focus to implementation research where we intensified our effort to see what interventions can change the situation. Over the past decade we have developed and piloted a sustainable and effective TB control program in prisons of Bangladesh, piloted and established a Sustainable Social Enterprise Model for improving TB care in urban areas of the country, lead the development of a digital solution to enable the private providers to report TB cases, assessed the feasibility of digital adherence tools in the country. Apart from these, I have also been country site coordinator for a five-country study that is investigating the role of bioavailability of drugs in predicting treatment outcome in severe forms of TB patients among other exciting projects. We have also conducted several implementation research focusing on improving child TB diagnosis.

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