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Dr. Md Marufur Rahman Opu

Dr. Md Marufur Rahman is the Deputy Program Manager of Medical Biotechnology Program at the Directorate General of Health Services of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh. Apart from his education and training as a physician he trained himself in epidemiology, health systems evaluation, computational genomics, cancer molecular biology and precision medicine. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Dhaka, Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the American International University-Bangladesh and MSc in Molecular Medicine (Clinical Applications) from the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been working in health system evaluation based on nationwide health facility based service data and establishment of medical biotechnology program throughout the country through various training programs for last 4 years. He is co-founder of Platform for Medical and Dental Society, which is the largest network of Bangladeshi doctors and medical students and trained more than hundreds of undergraduate medical students on public health research methods. Though Dr. Maruf has mainly been involved in program implementation and monitoring area, he has published several peer-reviewed papers, edited annual National Health Bulletin and working as a coinvestigator in several largescale research projects from the Government. He served as President of Bangladeshi Students Society of the University of Sheffield (2018-2019).

Current and previous affiliations

Directorate General of Health Services of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
University of Sheffield, UK
University of American International University-Bangladesh

Notable publications

Khan, A., Ashher, F., Khanam, F., Rahman, M., Khan, M., Paul, S. and Hossain, M. (2018). Baseline Widal Titer Among Healthy Adult Males from the Greater Mymensingh Division of Bangladesh. Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets, 18(3), pp.233-240.
Kader SB, Rahman MM, Tulsan SK, Podder V, Pial RH, Saha M. Associated factors for obstetric fistula among young women and its possible effects on their mental well-being. Med J DY Patil Vidyapeeth 2020;13:224-8
Rahman, M., Biswas, A., Kader, S., Nirob, M., Bhandari, K., Mahmood, F. and Momin, J. (2018). Health Bulletin 2017. Dhaka: Management Information System, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. http://www.dghs.gov.bd/images/docs/Publicaations/HealthBulletin2017Final13_01_ 2018.pdf
Rahman, M., Ali, L., Mannan, M., Rashed, A. and Chakravarti, S. (2018). National Medical Biotechnology Action Plan 2018-2027. Management Information System, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. http://www.dghs.gov.bd/images/docs/bio_tech.pdf

Projects

Platform-CME: An online course platform for continuing medical education in Bangladesh
National COVID-19 surveillance system data management: Data quality assurance and management for heatmap generation and epidemiological prediction
National Newborn and Gestational TSH screening Project: Protocol development and project implementation as a coinvestigator
Whole Genome Sequencing project: Complete genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 from Bangladeshi samples using government facilities.
Open Research Forum: An initiative to promote open research removing obstacles of institutional bindings and using collaborative open resources.
E-Health Service development: Designing hospital automation and nationwide digitalized e-Health service project with a detailed budget plan as part of the a2i technical team
Health System Strengthening: Online tool development for performance monitoring of healthcare facilities as part of the WHO technical team
Development Project for National Institute of Medical Biotechnology: Project proposal development with a detailed plan for the institute, to be approved by ECNEC.
Thalassemia awareness project: Digital thalassemia tracker, guideline and awareness campaign development and implementation

Contact

email: dr.maruf@mis.dghs.gov.bd

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ripendil/

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