PhD candidate, The University of Queensland
I am a physician and clinical researcher. I have completed my MBBS degree from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh and Post Graduate Diploma in Paediatrics and Child Health from Imperial College London, UK. Before joining to UQ, I worked for about nine years at an international research organization (www.icddrb.org) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My main interest in research includes child respiratory and alimentary diseases and malnutrition.
With a PhD scholarship at the University of Queensland, I am currently doing research to see the effects of family, neighbourhood and psychosocial environmental changes on asthma among children in children.
Passive smoking, synthetic bedding and gas heating in homes show the strongest links to asthma
Feb 18, 2022 08:06 am UTC| Health
One in every nine people in Australia has asthma. It is a health burden for many children, and expensive for families because of medication, hospital and out-of-hospital expenses. The pandemic has added further stress...
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