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BANGLADESH SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL PLC.
Assistant General Manager (AGM), Medical Services
Dhaka
September 2023 – Present
SHUHARI HEALTH LTD.
Head of Medical Services
Dhaka
July 2023 – September 2023
ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK (AIIB)
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Remote/ Dhaka
December 2022
GRAMEEN DIGITAL HEALTH OF GRAMEEN TELECOM TRUST
Coordinator, Clinical Programs; Acting Head of Clinical Services
Dhaka, Bangladesh
November 2019 – June 2023
TELENOR HEALTH AS
Coordinator, Patient Support Program (PSP)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
April 2019 – November 2019
DELTA HEALTHCARE HOSPITAL, MIRPUR
Medical Officer, In Patient Department
Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2019 – March 2019
HYPERTENSION & RESEARCH CENTRE, RANGPUR
Medical Officer, Out-Patient Department
Rangpur, Bangladesh
March 2012 – Dec 2018
RANGPUR MEDICAL COLLEGE, RANGPUR
Intern Doctor
Rangpur, Bangladesh
HYPERTENSION & RESEARCH CENTRE, RANGPUR
Chief Health Counselor & Health Counselor
Rangpur, Bangladesh
March 2012 – Dec 2016
BANGLADESH SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL PLC.
Assistant General Manager (AGM), Medical Services
Dhaka
September 2023 – Present
Bangladesh Specialized Hospital PLC is a leading tertiary-care, multidisciplinary healthcare institution in Bangladesh, committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and patient-centered medical services. As Assistant General Manager (AGM), Medical Services, the role is pivotal in driving clinical excellence by overseeing medical operations, strengthening clinical governance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating effectively between consultants, departments, and hospital leadership to continuously improve patient care outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Play key role in overall planning, coordination, and supervision of medical and clinical services of the hospital
- Ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day clinical operations across OPD, IPD, Emergency, Critical Care Units, OT, and diagnostic services.
- Coordinate with department heads, consultants, and unit in-charges to ensure uninterrupted and high-quality patient care
- Monitor compliance with clinical policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and evidence-based medical practices
- Support implementation and monitoring of clinical governance, patient safety, and quality improvement initiatives. Plan, monitor, evaluate and report all day-to-day operations under the medical services department, measure progress, train and motivate hospital staffs, establish review systems and collaborate with cross functional teams for optimum patient satisfaction.
- Lead the grievance redress system, risk management system, ensure safeguarding and take appropriate measure to minimize the service gaps.
- Assist in hospital accreditation processes including preparation for audits, inspections, and documentation
- Support recruitment, credentialing, privileging, and performance evaluation of consultants and medical officers
- Monitor patient care standards, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction related to medical services
- Assist in development, review, and updating of medical policies, clinical guidelines, and SOPs
- Ensure proper clinical documentation, record keeping, and medico-legal compliance through structured clinical audits.
- Prepare periodic reports, presentations, and recommendations for senior management
- Participate in hospital committees including clinical, ethics, infection control, and quality assurance committees
- Support organization of clinical meetings, CMEs, training programs, and professional development activities.
- Ensure compliance with national healthcare regulations, DGHS, BMDC guidelines, and other statutory requirements.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Systemically identified the hospital service gap through patient's satisfaction survey, key informant interview (KII), Net Promoter Score (NPS) analysis and develop a roadmap to improve hospital services focusing patients' satisfaction.
- Ran quarterly independent clinical audit to ensure the optimum service delivery, identify gaps and needs, analyze safety and legislative risk of the hospital.
- Prepared 7 SOPP for hospital administration including Master SOPP of Medical Services, Grievance Redress System, Risk Management, Safeguarding and 6 SOPP for various clinical department of BSH.
- Analyzed training demand through a training need assessment (TNA) and prepared module for 13 categories training for various staff of BSH with high satisfaction rate from the participants.
- Increased the patient satisfaction score to 89% in the patients admitted in IPD.
- Established a digitally enabled reporting system for general service data to monitor empathetic and timely nursing care of the patients.
SHUHARI HEALTH LTD.
Head of Medical Services
Dhaka
July 2023 – September 2023
ShuHaRi Health Ltd. is a healthcare consultancy and innovation firm supporting digital health companies through clinical training, service design, and operational advisory.
As Head of Medical Services, the role led clinical consultancy and BPO-based operations, driving protocol development, staff onboarding and training, clinical governance, and operational support for digital health service launch and scale-up.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide overall leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for all medical services and clinical functions of the organization
- Lead planning, coordination, implementation, and supervision of medical operations to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality service delivery
- Oversee quality control and quality assurance activities across medical services using structured and evidence-based tools
- Ensure regular clinical audits are conducted, findings are analyzed, and corrective actions are implemented to improve patient care and compliance
- Supervise performance evaluation systems for medical and clinical staff to ensure accountability, effectiveness, and continuous improvement
- Lead continuous professional development (CPD) initiatives including periodic trainings, workshops, and capacity-building programs for healthcare professionals
- Ensure full compliance with applicable regulatory, ethical, and professional standards governing medical services
- Monitor adherence to clinical guidelines, SOPs, and organizational policies in all medical operations
- Coordinate multidisciplinary medical teams to ensure seamless service delivery and effective interdepartmental collaboration
- Identify service gaps and risks through structured monitoring and implement appropriate risk mitigation strategies
- Support development, review, and updating of medical policies, protocols, and clinical governance frameworks
- Prepare analytical reports, performance summaries, and strategic recommendations for senior management
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Established a culture of empathetic and evidence-centric clinical care by integrating patient-centered practices with standardized clinical guidelines across medical operations.
- Formulated and implemented operational SOPs to standardize clinical workflows, improve service consistency, and ensure regulatory and ethical compliance.
- Designed and led continuous professional development (CPD) programs to strengthen clinical competency, professional accountability, and evidence-based practice among healthcare staff.
- Collaborated with Dept. of International Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, to organize a national quiz and mixed media competition for doctors and medical students to increase awareness on Typhoid vaccination for children
- Provided consultancy services for two digital health companies to launch their clinical operations by developing necessary protocols, policies, guidelines, and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and onboarding clinical staff.
- Managing those clinical operations as BPO service. Responsibilities include human resource management, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, clinical governance, and providing operational support and technical guidance for technology and product development (call centre solution, EHR system & service packages for specific conditions).
- Developed a roleplay & vignette-based workshop module on "doctor-patient communication & empathy". Organized 4 physical workshops & 7 online workshops to train 500+ doctors to advocate for empathy in clinical service provision. Currently in discussion with partners to develop a self-paced online version for intern doctors.
- Designed a digitally enabled condition management support programme for diabetes during pregnancy for a reputed pharmaceutical company to help pregnant women to keep their diabetes under control & prevent complications.
ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK (AIIB)
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Remote/ Dhaka
December 2022
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank financing sustainable infrastructure and public service systems to support inclusive economic growth across member countries. As Clinical Services Design Consultant, the role contributed to the design of a digitally enabled urban healthcare system for Dhaka North City Corporation by translating community health needs into practical, scalable clinical service models.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support Dhaka North City Corporation in developing a comprehensive digitally-enabled healthcare system to provide quality primary and specialized care.
- Coordinate with different stakeholders and non-governmental organization to complete the feasibility study for digitalization of 46 community clinics and one general hospital in Dhaka North City Corporation.
- Conduct a demand analysis to understand the unmet healthcare need of city dwellers in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).
- Relationship management with DNCC, engaging senior stakeholders and gathering requirements to complete the feasibility study.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully conduct the demand analysis of the primary healthcare facilities.
- Prepare the relevant part of the feasibility report, address the feedback of DNCC, AIIB and other stakeholders.
GRAMEEN DIGITAL HEALTH OF GRAMEEN TELECOM TRUST
Coordinator, Clinical Programs; Acting Head of Clinical Services
Dhaka, Bangladesh
November 2019 – June 2023
Grameen Digital Health of Grameen Telecom Trust is a leading digital health organization delivering large-scale telemedicine and patient support services in collaboration with government and development partners to expand equitable access to quality healthcare across Bangladesh. As Coordinator, Clinical Programs and Acting Head of Medical Services, the role was central to leading national telemedicine operations—driving clinical governance, workforce development, program design, and cross-sector collaboration to ensure ethical, high-quality, patient-centered digital care at scale.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead a group of dedicated doctors delivering remote patient consultations and train them to treat with clinical excellence, ensure proper supervision, and provide necessary support.
- Regular recruitment and training of medical doctors, specialists and other health professional as per organizational need.
- Undertake policies and execute systematic monitoring and evaluation framework for ensuring high quality clinical service and achieving high net promoter score (NPS).
- Monitor the electronic medical record (EMR) to identify the clinical service need, patients' retention rate, quality of clinical data etc.
- Prepare budget for regular clinical operations, projects and health camps and ensure proper implementation of programs.
- Design and lead various comprehensive Patient Support Program aiming to control as well as proper management of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) i.e. diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and pregnancy.
- Planning and executing IEDCR hotline (10655) operation on GDH end in collaboration with IEDCR, USAID & Save the Children.
- Develop, lead, and undertake quarterly workshops for capacity enhancing for doctors on soft skills such as doctor-patient communication, empathy, shared decision making, breaking bad news, medical ethics, etc.
- Work with cross-functional team including technology team, marketing team to build user-friendly software system as well as demanding products for various projects and customers.
- Day-to-day data analysis and reporting for multiple stakeholders and other partners.
- Collaborate with various government institutes, non-government organizations, stakeholders, and partners for successful outcome of different operations.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Ensure quality telemedicine care to 400 k+ patients with high patients' satisfaction.
- Provided 206 k+ successful consultation and queries that includes 58 k+ vaccine related queries and 1183 Adverse Events Following Immunization.
- Successfully ended a Diabetic Patient Support Program for 6000 patients with satisfactory outcomes.
- Prepared and conducted 5 doctor-Patient Communication workshop for 120 doctors and provided 22 training on different clinical and COVID-19 management in telemedicine based on national guidelines.
- Developed 3 operational SOPs, 2 comprehensive counseling scripts, clinical evaluation framework and 15 clinical guidelines for internal operation.
TELENOR HEALTH AS
Coordinator, Patient Support Program (PSP)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
April 2019 – November 2019
Telenor Health AS is a global digital health organization focused on delivering technology-enabled patient support and care management solutions for chronic and maternal health conditions. As Coordinator, Patient Support Program (PSP), the role was key to designing and executing large-scale, structured patient support programs—strengthening continuity of care through SOP development, provider training, stakeholder coordination, and data-driven program management to improve clinical outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Planning and executing diabetic, maternity, and cardiac patient support program (PSP).
- Develop various standard operating procedures (SOPs), educational materials and counseling scripts for the patient educators.
- Provide proper training to the doctors on empathetic counseling, empowering patients, shared decision making etc. after developing a quality training module.
- Ensure proper and quality field counseling by a group of trained diabetic educators and tracking the timely counseling.
- Design a tailored dedicated patients' portal to run the program and make it's continuous up-gradation based on the need of other stakeholders.
- Day-to-day data analysis and reporting for multiple stakeholders and partners.
- Collaboration and communication with various stakeholders of different projects.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully completed patient support program for over 3000 diabetic patients and over 1000 pregnant women.
- Diabetes was averagely controlled in (FBS <8 mmol/l) in 73% patients which was only 23% at the initiation of the PSP. Weekly
- SMBG performer were increased from 39% to 83%. Irregular and non-performer were reduced to 6% from 34% Antenatal care enhanced up to 60% after getting structured telephonic support during pregnancy.
DELTA HEALTHCARE HOSPITAL, MIRPUR
Medical Officer, In Patient Department
Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2019 – March 2019
Delta Healthcare Hospital, Mirpur is a multidisciplinary secondary-care hospital providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient medical services to the urban population of Dhaka.
As Medical Officer, In-Patient Department, the role was fundamental to delivering safe, compassionate inpatient care—managing clinical assessments, coordinating treatment under senior supervision, supporting multidisciplinary rounds, and ensuring continuity of care through effective documentation and patient counseling.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Took medical history and performed initial physical examination of patients, documented that on the patients file,
- Recorded provisional diagnosis, suggested primary investigations and treatment plan provided that the treatment plan is discussed and approved by a senior team member.
- Had to follow up the implementation of the prescribed course of treatment, obtained results of all ordered investigations, documented the development of any complications that may ensue and planned discharge and follow up.
- Counseled the patients and their attendance regarding the nature, course, treatment options, outcome, and prognosis of the disease empathetically.
- Attended and practiced in all clinical rounds done by the respective department physicians.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Awarded best doctor of the month for two consecutive times.
- Especially handled complicated cases and counseling with their attendants.
- Developed different patient record forms, referral forms as per requirements for service development.
HYPERTENSION & RESEARCH CENTRE, RANGPUR
Medical Officer, Out-Patient Department
Rangpur, Bangladesh
March 2012 – December 2018
Hypertension & Research Centre, Rangpur is a specialized outpatient healthcare and research facility focused on the long-term management, prevention, and community awareness of hypertension and related non-communicable diseases. As Medical Officer, Out-Patient Department, the role was central to delivering continuity-based chronic care—managing large patient volumes, providing empathetic counseling, supporting clinical decision-making under senior guidance, and leading community education initiatives to improve long-term health outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Took medical history and performed initial physical examination of patients, documented that on the patients file, recorded provisional diagnosis, suggested primary investigations and treatment plan provided that the treatment plan is discussed and approved by a senior team member.
- Had to follow up the implementation of the prescribed course of treatment, obtained results of all ordered investigations, documented the development of any complications that may ensue and planned discharge and follow up.
- Counseled the patients and their attendance regarding the nature, course, treatment options, outcome, and prognosis of the disease empathetically.
- Attended and practiced in all clinical rounds done by the respective department physicians.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Manage and treat 4 k+ hypertensive patients with multiple comorbidities with patient satisfaction rate >95%.
- Counselling more than 15k + patients over a period of 6 years both face to face and over telephone.
- Take part in 32 health camps & 90 patient awareness programs as a lead awareness educator.
- Developed many educational contents, training materials for patients, health workers & other staff of this organization.
RANGPUR MEDICAL COLLEGE, RANGPUR
Intern Doctor
Rangpur, Bangladesh
Rangpur Medical College, Rangpur is a leading government medical college and teaching hospital providing comprehensive medical education, clinical training, and patient care across multiple specialties. As an Intern Doctor, the role was foundational in delivering supervised clinical care, performing examinations and minor procedures, participating in multidisciplinary rounds, and gaining hands-on experience in patient management, surgery, and departmental academic activities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Took medical history and performed initial physical examination of patients, documented that on the patients file, recorded provisional diagnosis, suggested primary investigations and treatment plan provided that the treatment plan is discussed and approved by a senior team member.
- Had to follow up the implementation of the prescribed course of treatment, obtained results of all ordered investigations, documented the development of any complications that may ensue and planned discharge and follow up.
- Counseled the patients and their attendance regarding the nature, course, treatment options, outcome, and prognosis of the disease empathetically.
- Attended and practiced in all clinical rounds done by the respective department physicians.
- Participate in the scientific activities organized by the different department.
- Assisted in various surgery conducted by the respective department physician during the course of the internship.
- Performed different minor surgery under the supervision of resident surgeon.
- Adhered to attendance code observed in the department they are assigned to.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Became the best intern doctor in Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Medicine department.
- Performed different minor surgery under supervision.
- Presented many cases in department seminars, symposiums and rounds etc.
HYPERTENSION & RESEARCH CENTRE, RANGPUR
Chief Health Counselor & Health Counselor
Rangpur, Bangladesh
March 2012 – December 2016
Hypertension & Research Centre, Rangpur is a specialized outpatient healthcare and research facility focused on the long-term management, prevention, and community awareness of hypertension and related non-communicable diseases. As Chief Health Counselor & Health Counselor, the role was central to delivering patient-centered hypertension care—providing direct counseling, follow-up support, and education for thousands of patients, while leading community awareness programs, health camps, and capacity-building initiatives for staff.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Counseled newly diagnosed and existing hypertensive patients, including those with single or multiple comorbidities, to ensure treatment adherence and lifestyle modifications.
- Conducted face-to-face sessions and follow-up phone counseling for irregular patients.
- Used audio-visual tools and educational materials to enhance patient understanding and engagement.
- Participated in community awareness campaigns, health camps, and outreach programs to promote hypertension prevention and management.
- Maintained patient records, monitored treatment progress, and provided feedback for clinical decision-making.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully counseled over 15,000 patients, improving adherence and self-management of hypertension and related conditions.
- Contributed to the organization's high patient satisfaction and retention rates.
- Played a key role in organizing 32 health camps and 90 community awareness programs.
- Developed educational materials, counseling scripts, and training modules for patients and health workers.
LEADERSHIP
Experiences
HYPERTENSION AND RESEARCH CENTRE, RANGPUR
Internal Auditor
Rangpur
2022 – Present
PLATFORM OF MEDICAL & DENTAL SOCIETY
President, General Secretary, Member
Bangladesh
2014 – Present
BANGLADESH AMR RESPONSE ALLIANCE (BARA)
Trainer cum Member
Bangladesh
2019 – Present
FRIENDS' FOUNDATION, RANGPUR MEDICAL COLLEGE UNIT
President, General Secretary & Organizing Secretary, EC
Bangladesh
Nov 2013 – Nov 2016
BANGLADESH HUMAN RIGHTS THEATRE TEAM
Organizing Secretary & Member, EC, Gaibandha
Bangladesh
Feb 2009 – Jan 2012
PLATFORM OF MEDICAL & DENTAL SOCIETY
President, General Secretary, Member
Bangladesh
2014 – Present
Platform of Medical and Dental Society is a voluntary organization dedicated to strengthening the bond between doctors and patients while promoting evidence-based academic activities and healthcare support across Bangladesh. As President, General Secretary, and Member, the role was central to leading nationwide voluntary healthcare initiatives—coordinating with government and non-government stakeholders, training doctors and volunteers, and driving large-scale awareness and emergency response programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as key leader in running the organizational activities to increase the rapport between doctors and patients, promote evidence based academic activities, provide career guidelines and provide healthcare and voluntary support to the nation especially in need.
- Collaborate with the government, non-government stakeholders and partners, NGO, UN bodies and other organizations to support and strengthen the healthcare system of Bangladesh.
- Motivate and train a group of doctors, medical students and volunteers to promote the organizational activity across Bangladesh.
- Develop the organizational capacity-building strategy and contribute to implementing capacity-building plans, including their monitoring.
- Lead the awareness-raising activity, especially during World AMR Awareness Week (WAAK), Non-communicable disease awareness campaign, Dengue-Chikungunya awareness campaign across healthcare professionals, policymakers, and laypersons.
- Lead the 24/7 COVID-19 hotline "Saara" to support the remote and disadvantaged population of Bangladesh.
- Plan and implement the field operation to promote the activity of Saara through community volunteers.
- Facilitate to organize different meetings, awareness programs, and other capacity-building exercises.
- Manage and guide local leaders in the different divisions and support in leading localized implementation of organizational activity.
- Communicate and collaborate with various donor organizations for financial support.
- Day-to-day supervision of various activities through efficient planning, tracking, and monitoring.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Volunteered as a Core leader to support the National Corona Control Room in the current COVID-19 pandemic.
- Distributed Personal Protective Equipment's (PPE) worth 10588 USD in 250 hospitals, Upazila Health Complexes and Medical College Hospitals of Bangladesh.
- Ensured management of and 48,000 general and 5,500 mental health consultations to a diverse group of patients including marginalized population of Bangladesh.
- Directly help 20000 non-government doctors to register for COVID-19 vaccination, serve 3800 queries regarding COVID-19 vaccination.
- Arranged 7 health camps in different flood affected areas of Bangladesh amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Counseled 300 patients for their mental health issues especially during critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Major Responsibilities
- Act as key communication leader in running the organizational activities to promote rational use of antimicrobials in One Health approach.
- Train physicians and veterinarians on antimicrobial resistance through a structured training module called the Continuous Professional Development Expansion Training on Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Usage with technical support from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- Provide technical assistance in developing specific AMR program-related standard operating procedures, and other relevant training and communication materials.
- Lead the collaboration of AMR activity with different government and non-government stakeholders of Bangladesh.
- Develop the organizational capacity-building strategy and contribute to implementing capacity-building plans, including their monitoring.
- Lead the awareness-raising activity, especially during World AMR Awareness Week (WAAK), across healthcare professionals, policymakers, and laypersons regarding AMR.
- Facilitate to organize different meetings, awareness programs, and other capacity-building exercises.
- Manage and guide local leaders in the different divisions and support in leading localized implementation of AMR-related activity.
- Promote BARA activity in different areas and location of Bangladesh.
key Achievements
- Successfully led the collaboration of different stakeholders i.e., Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Communicable Disease Control (CDC), Bangladesh AMR Response Alliance (BARA), Platform of Medical and Dental Society, to celebrate the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAK) to raise awareness from policy makers to laypersons regarding AMR related activities since 2020.
- Led the celebration of WAAK since 2017 by engaging 100+ medical college campuses, 150+ academic institutions, pharmacists, patients, attendants and laypersons.
- Trained 100 physicians from both human and animal health sector regarding AMR and AMU.
- Collaborated with the member of Parliament to strengthen policy making activities to combat AMR.
- Led around 20 awareness campaign physically in different medical colleges, schools and other academic institutions across Bangladesh.
BANGLADESH AMR RESPONSE ALLIANCE
Trainer cum Member
Bangladesh
2019 – Present
Bangladesh AMR Response Alliance (BARA) is a multi-stakeholder platform dedicated to promoting rational use of antimicrobials through a One Health approach, bringing together human and animal health sectors to combat antimicrobial resistance across Bangladesh. As Trainer cum Member, the role was central to leading communication and training initiatives—developing structured AMR training programs, driving policy collaboration, and organizing nationwide awareness campaigns to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key communication leader in running the organizational activities on promoting the rational use of antimicrobials in one health approach.
- Trainer in the Continuous Professional Development Expansion Training on Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Usage provided by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for human and animal health physicians.
- Provide close technical assistance in developing specific AMR program-related standard operating procedures, letters, and other relevant materials.
- Lead the collaboration of AMR activity with different government and non-government stakeholders of Bangladesh.
- Develop the organizational capacity-building strategy and contribute to implementing capacity-building plans, including their monitoring.
- Lead the awareness-raising activity, especially during World AMR Awareness Week (WAAK), across healthcare professionals, policymakers, and ordinary people regarding AMR.
- Facilitate different meetings, programs, and other capacity-building exercises.
- Manage and guide local leaders in the different divisions, supporting them in leading localized implementation of AMR-related activity.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully led the collaboration to celebrate the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAK) in collaboration of different stakeholders i.e Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Communicable Disease Control (CDC), Bangladesh AMR Response Alliance (BARA), Platform of Medical and Dental Society, etc to raise awareness among policy makers to ordinary people regarding rational antimicrobial use since 2020.
- Led the celebration of WAAK since 2017 to 100+ medical college campuses, 150+ academic institutions, pharmacists, patients, their attendances in different hospitals and ordinary peoples.
- Trained 40 physicians from both human and animal health sector regarding AMR and AMU.
RESEARCH
Experiences
Mental health condition of physicians working frontline with COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh
Co-Author
BMC Psychiatry
2021
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of healthcare workers on antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic use
Co-Author
Springer Nature
2025
Effectiveness of a Digitally Enabled Patient Support Program through Patient Empowerment for Comprehensive Diabetes Management
Author
EWMC Journal
2026
Digital Health and Social Business: A potential combination to democratize healthcare, a case study from Bangladesh
Co-Author (Abstract Presentation)
10th Social Business Academia Conference
2021
Effectiveness of Digitally enabled Patient Support Program (PSP) through Patient Empowerment for Comprehensive Management of Diabetes
Co-Author (Abstract Presentation)
1st NCD Conference
2022
BMC PSYCHIATRY
Mental health condition of physicians working frontline with COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh
Co-Author
2021
Rahman A, Deeba F, Akhter S, Bashar F, Nomani D, Koot J, Koly KN, Salah FB, Haverlag K, Anwar I. Mental health condition of physicians working frontline with COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh. BMC psychiatry. 2021 Dec;21(1):1-1.
SPRINGER NATURE
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of healthcare workers on antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic use: a nationwide multi-center study in Bangladesh
Co-Author
2025
Chowdhury, F., Sayem, M.A., Hossain, M.A. et al. Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of healthcare workers on antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic use: a nationwide multi-center study in Bangladesh. Discov Public Health 22, 741 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-025-01107-2
EWMC JOURNAL
Effectiveness of a Digitally Enabled Patient Support Program through Patient Empowerment for Comprehensive Diabetes Management
Author
2026
Salah, M. F. B., Haque, S. A., Hoque, F., Hasan, K., Mahbub, N., & Mia, M. M. (2026). Effectiveness of a Digitally Enabled Patient Support Program through Patient Empowerment for Comprehensive Diabetes Management. East West Medical College Journal, 14(1), 17-20.
10TH SOCIAL BUSINESS ACADEMIA CONFERENCE
Digital Health and Social Business: A potential combination to democratize healthcare, a case study from Bangladesh
Co-Author (Abstract presentation)
2021
Presented as an abstract at the 10th Social Business Academia Conference, highlighting how digital health and social business models can combine to democratize healthcare access, with Bangladesh as a case study.
1ST NCD CONFERENCE
Effectiveness of Digitally enabled Patient Support Program (PSP) through Patient Empowerment for Comprehensive Management of Diabetes
Co-Author (Abstract presentation)
2022
Presented as an abstract at the 1st NCD Conference, showcasing the effectiveness of a digitally enabled Patient Support Program (PSP) in empowering patients for comprehensive diabetes management.