Dr. Nurul Alam

Name: Dr. Nurul Alam

Organisation: Matlab HDSS, Bangladesh

Position: Scientist (Initiative for Climate Change and Health)

Dr. Alam has served at ICDDR,B in different capacities in the last three decades and is currently a Scientist of its Initiative for Climate Change and Health. He is actively involved in the planning and management of the Matlab health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) with research focuses on epidemiologic transitions, epidemiology of perinatal and neonatal mortality, verbal autopsy, migration and urbanisation, chronic diseases and healthcare-seeking behavior, poverty and food security. He has a long collaboration with INDEPTH research, focusing on cross-country comparisons of health issues. He serves as a member of the technical committee of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the Ethical Review Committee of ICDDR,B, and Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation. He is involved in the Gavi Full Country Evaluation, and has been involved in many health and nutrition surveys and evaluation of intervention projects as an Epidemiologist-Statistician. He has published more than 75 research papers as principal author or co-author in peer-review journals and several papers in conference proceedings, book chapters, working papers, and monographs and participated in many scientific conferences and workshops at home and abroad for sharing findings