11^th Global Healthcare and Fitness Summit

Biography

K. Zaman, MBBS, MPH, PhD has been working as senior scientist and epidemiologist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), in the centre of Child and Adolescent Health. After completion of MBBS from Bangladesh, he obtained MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. For the last 32 years he has gained extensive experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of data from clinical and community-based epidemiological studies. His primary interests is to conduct researches on vaccines and infectious diseases. Besides clinical studies on ORS, drug trial, vaccine studies, vitamin A supplementation and hospital surveillance, he has been involved in community-based research on diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases and other public health problems in Bangladesh. Currently he is the Principal Investigator of several rotavirus, Flu, pneumococcal, polio, Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine studies and epidemiological studies on tuberculosis in icddr,b. The vaccine studies included all phases I,II, III, IV and with ICH GCP maintained. Dr. Zaman served as Section Editor in “Immunization” of the Journal of “Health, Population and Nutrition” and also reviewer of more than 20 international journals. Dr. Zaman received several awards and has more than 135 publications in international journals and had 115 conference presentations.

Research Interest

His primary interests is to conduct researches on vaccines and infectious diseases. Besides clinical studies on ORS, drug trial, vaccine studies