Author: Md. Shajedur Rahman Shawon
Dr. Md. Shajedur Rahman is a young and vibrant Bangladeshi Physician who wants to be a public health expert and researcher. He has completed his MBBS from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh and is now studying MPH at North South University, Bangladesh. Currently he is working as Research Associate at BRAC Healthcare Innovations Program (bHIP) project at James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University. The author can be contacted at shawon.fcc.dmc@gmail.com.
Great Expectations: The Future of Public Health after 2015
As Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be ending in 2015, the world is waiting to see new agenda on health as well as on other [more…]
Primary Healthcare: Health for All
Primary healthcare is a guiding tool for the establishment of a sustainable healthcare system that acts to eliminate not only the medical causes but also [more…]
Health Information System (HIS): Bangladesh Perspectives
The other day somebody mentioned that data can save lives. How is that possible? Obviously data related to health has no ability to cure disease [more…]
Why Public Health?
One of my senior colleagues inquired about my career in public health. He asked me whether I had chosen the field by chance or by choice. I [more…]
Physical Activity: Time to Reconsider
Few days ago, I was reading an article about physical inactivity and its association with non-communicable diseases (NCD) e.g. hypertension, diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer [more…]
