Bio

I was born in Jeddah, the beautiful port city of Saudi Arabia. After completing high school, I moved to Bangladesh, (which is my motherland) during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, which eventually ended in sheer disappointment from a Brazilian Soccer fan's perspective (France defeated Brazil in the finals). After high school, I pursued Med school and eventually took the hippocratic oath in 2013. My passion lied in public health, rather than individual patient-care. I was fortunate enough to join icddr,b, and started my public health career at a village near the northeastern borders of Bangladesh (Zakiganj, Sylhet). After spending a couple of years, I did my Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology, worked in Dhaka Hospital of icddr,b to gain hands-on clinical experience in the area of Newborn and Child Health. Later joined the Maternal and Child Health Division of icddr,b. where my largely involved analysis of large-scale population and health facility-based data on quality of care, particularly Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent healthcare. At the beginning of the pandemic, when experts from around the world started coming up with Machine Learning models and started using AI in approaching the contagion, It fascinated me. I was very early to assume among my peers that this is just the beginning, soon, these newer methods will be used to infer and/or predict public health and population health traits. I searched for programs which had a modern and comprehensive curriculum, and above all, takes in doctors and/or epidemiologists. Master of Data Science at UBC ticked all the boxes, and I am the first one to get in to the program from my country. Currently I am working as Business Anayst at Stroke Services BC, which is commissioned to rto work towards fewer strokes, promote and support world-class stroke care, and ensure the best possible outcomes for stroke patients in BC. It is also a provincial health improvement network (HIN) program of PHSA. 

Apart from work, I am an extrovert with a contagious sense of humor. Always into travelling to some place new, meeting someone new, and definitely eating something new. I love cooking, drumming, travelling, and listening . I love hiking and trekking. Above all, I am a family guy, and love to spend time with my wife and kids.