Md Hafizur Rahman, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, is a public health physician having more than 20 years of experience in directing public health research and capacity building programs in low- and middle-income countries, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Dr. Rahman’s research objectives/interests focus on protecting the poor and vulnerable against the impact of health-related shocks, developing innovations in health service provision, and accessibility and utilization of health services for the poor and vulnerable. Major areas of his research include mortality and morbidity measures in maternal and adult health, program impact evaluation, health care seeking behavior, non-communicable diseases, road safety, access to pharmaceuticals and drug markets. Dr. Rahman has offered courses on public health and health systems strengthening to the graduate students at Johns Hopkins and other universities. Dr. Rahman served as an Advisor and a Consultant at the international organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, Washington DC. Dr. Rahman has published his research work in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Dr. Md Hafizur Rahman is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences (HBMSU) engaged in teaching academic courses, conducting research and advising graduate students. Dr. Rahman, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, is a public health physician having more than 20 years of experience in directing public health research and capacity building programs in low- and middle-income countries, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
After completing his doctoral studies as a Gates Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, he joined the university as a faculty and served in both Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine. During his work at Hopkins, he taught graduate students, and conducted research in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, Middle East, Central America and in the United States. Dr. Rahman’s work has increasingly recognized him as an expert in public health, particularly in research and capacity building in maternal, neonatal and child health and health care management and strengthening health systems. He published 41 research articles in prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals including The Lancet, 3 peer-reviewed book chapters and 17 scientific study reports. He served as the Associate Editor for BioMed Central Health Services Research (peer reviewed international scientific journal) during 2012-2019.
Dr. Rahman has collaborated on 25 research grants in the area of maternal, neonatal and child health and health care management, and in recent years he has been awarded 11 grants as the Principal Investigator. Dr. Rahman has worked strategically to engage senior policy makers and program planners in the Ministry of Health while developing, implementing and evaluating health care management programs in a number of countries in South Asia and Africa. As a consultant/Advisor, Dr. Rahman worked with the World Bank, Washington, DC, USA, the World Health Organization and with Department of Health in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
