Kazi Rahman, Author at MercatorNet

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Kazi is a medical graduate (MBBS) from Dhaka Medical College, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He did Master of Science in Epidemiology from Harvard University and PhD from the Australian National University. Kazi worked for 10 years at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh as a public health researcher. As an adjunct faculty, Kazi also taught epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology and quantitative research methods at James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in Bangladesh for five years. After finishing his PhD in early 2015, Kazi worked at Griffith University on the Gold Coast for 3 years as a Lecturer in Epidemiology. He then worked at James Cook University in Townsville – as a Lecturer in Public Health and Tropical Medicine for a year and as a Lecturer in Medical Education for six months. Kazi also does Distance Learning tutoring with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for their MSc Clinical Trials program. Kazi has supervised higher degree research students both in Bangladesh and in Australia. Kazi’s area of research include infectious diseases, child health and nutrition, long term conditions, natural disasters including flooding and bushfires, environmental determinants of heath and One Health. Kazi has conducted research applying different epidemiological tools and quantitative methods. He has also done research using mixed methods. He has published his research in peer review journals and succeeded in securing internationally competitive research grant. As a Senior Epidemiologist in North Coast Public Health in NSW Health, Kazi has been working for the health of the people in the region. Kazi envisages adding strength to the research culture within a large program like NSW Health in collaboration with different research and ethical bodies, and academic institutions. As an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer of the University of Sydney, Kazi has also been actively involved in teaching undergraduate medical students on rural placement, and supporting and supervising research at the University Centre for Rural Health.

Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that’s talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritise certain groups for vaccination. But we still don’t know if current vaccines prevent disease and also prevent people transmitting the virus to others. This not only has implications for vaccines we’ve […]