Shahanaz Chowdhury
1 Course • 25 StudentsBiography
Shahanaz Chowdhury is a Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Public Health at BUHS, Adjunct Faculty, BUP. She holds MBBS from SSMC (1996), MPH (RCH) from NIPSOM (2003), MBGPH (AUSN, USA), 2015. She obtained PhD in Bioethics, sustainability and Global Public Health from AUSN, USA (2019). Now PhD fellow at BUP on Evaluation of End-of-life care support in Intensive Care Units at government hospitals in Bangladesh: Guidance for developing a framework.
Role in Global Health Activities
- Tutor,Post Graduate Diploma in Foundations of Global Health I & II, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Co-Chair of the Competency Sub-Committee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), USA. https://www.cugh.org/our-work/committees/education-committee/global-health-competency-subcommittee/
- Contributing Scholars & Peer Reviewers (3rd edition, 2024) of Global-Health-Competencies-Tool-Kit. https://www.cugh.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/95/2024/04/Global-Health-Competencies-Tool-Kit-3rd-Ed.pdf
- Involved in the development of the post graduate certificate course on global health (3 months), BUHS. She received Dr. Tom Hall Small Education Grant (CUGH_USA) for this project (2024)
- Member, Global Health Operations Committee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) since 2022. https://www.cugh.org/our-work/committees/global-health-operations-committee/
- Member of the Academic Partnership Program Initiative (APPI) of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), USA since 2022. https://www.cugh.org/our-work/committees/education-committee/ghpas/
- Member, CUGH Online Capacity Strengthening Platform since 2022
- Member Global Health Educators Community (GHECo) since 2023. https://www.cugh.org/our-work/committees/education-committee/global-health-educators-community-gheco/
- Involved as the Team Leader of the Disease Characterization Working Group, The Global Health Network (TGHN), University of Oxford program. https://coronavirus.tghn.org/open-working-groups/disease-characterisation/
Fields of interest
She has worked extensively in the fields of Reproductive and Child Health, Bioethics, and Global Health, focusing on both Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases. Her work also extends to Palliative and End of Life Care, where she has been involved in addressing ethical dilemmas and improving patient outcomes in these critical areas.
Research partners
For her research, she works in close cooperation with BRAC University, BMRC, icddr,b and NCDCP and DGHS, BCCP, Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, BRF, Bangladesh and CARE Bangladesh HIV Program.
Thesis supervision:
Field of expertise: NCD risk factors, immunization and vaccines, disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, chikungunya, cervical cancer, end-of-life care, autism spectrum disorder and gestational diabetes mellitus. Intestinal parasitic infestation, antenatal care, pulmonary tuberculosis, clubfoot treatment, injecting drug use, and diabetic retinopathy.
Further information: https://buhs.ac.bd/shahanaz-chowdhury/
