Zahidul Quayyum

Dr. Zahidul Quayyum is a Professor and Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH) at BRAC University. He is also the Co-Director of Centre of Excellence for Urban Equity and Health (CUEH) and served as the Director Research at the school for two years. He is a health economist and a public health researcher and has more than 27 years of experiences of conducting health economics and health systems research. He has worked as a Health Economist in many national and international projects and has been involved in working on economic evaluation of interventions and economic analysis of policy changes for improving maternal and child health. He has been also involved in conducting systematic review of economic evaluation, within trial national and multi-country economic evaluation, decision modelling and health technology assessment for the NIHR projects (UK) and EU funded projects in the UK. He is currently leading five (one funded by FCDO and one by Wellcome Trust) research projects at BRAC JPGSPH, three Principal Investigator and two as Co-Investigator, and has been involved in evaluating health care interventions, and has been involved in assessing the impact of environment, housing and neighborhood and co-producing interventions with public engagement for improving urban health (Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities) and designing urban health system interventions and leading the work programme on capacity strengthening for researchers and health systems actors (Chorus Urban Health). He is also co-supervising a PhD on “Towards developing an urban primary healthcare model for strengthening and improving healthcare services delivery for the poor in urban settings of Bangladesh.” Has supervised three MPH students at universities in the UK and fifteen at BRAC JPGSPH. His research work focuses on urban health, climate and health, maternal and child health, social determinants of health, and health of the displaced and marginalized population. He has authored more than 40 publications, many published in reputed journals.