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Tahmeed Ahmed
Executive director of the
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Assumed office
February 1, 2021
Preceded byJohn D. Clemens
Personal details
Alma materMymensingh Medical College
University of Tsukuba

Tahmeed Ahmed is a Bangladeshi Scientist with a particular research focus on Gastroenterology, Public Health Nutrition, and Global Health. He is a physician by training with specialization in treating patients with cholera and diarrheal diseases as well as maternal and childhood malnutrition. He has been serving as the Executive Director of the

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) since February 1, 2021.[1] He is the first Bangladeshi to serve in the role.[2]

Dr. Ahmed is also working as a Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the James P. Grant School of Public Health at

BRAC University.[3] He is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington.[4]

Life

Dr. Ahmed's father was an economist who died while he was a child.[5] His mother encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine.[5] He attended St. Gregory's High School and College and Notre Dame College, Dhaka.[5] Later he completed his Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) from the Mymensingh Medical College in 1983.[6] He was an in-service trainee majoring in internal medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College Hospital from 1983 to 1984.[6] In 1996, he completed a Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba.[5]

Career

Dr. Ahmed joined the

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in 2005. Dr. Ahmed became Senior Director of Nutrition and Clinical Services Division at icddr,b on 2015. On February 1, 2021, he succeeded Professor John D. Clemens as the Executive Director of icddr,b.[5] His research works primarily focus on community-based and clinical studies to improve nutritional status of populations particularly children and women and to further optimize management of diarrheal diseases and associated conditions.[5] He is also interested in upstream research using tools to study microbiota, proteome, and metabolome in improving the treatment of nutritional disorders.[7]

Notable works

  1. Development of a ready-to-use supplementary food made from locally available food ingredients in Bangladesh[8]
  2. Development of Microbiota-directed Therapeutic Food (MDCF)[9][10]

Awards

  1. 2007 - Development Market Place Award 2007 from the World Bank[11]
  2. 2003 - Dr Sultan Ahmed Choudhury Gold Medal Award from Bangladesh Academy of Sciences

References

  1. S2CID 231809757
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  2. ^ "Dr Tahmeed Ahmed made icddr,b executive director". Dhaka Tribune. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  3. ^ "BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health". bracjpgsph.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  4. ^ "Tahmeed Ahmed | University of Washington - Department of Global Health". globalhealth.washington.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
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  6. ^ a b c "icddr,b - Researcher Profile". www.icddrb.org. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  7. ^ "icddr,b - Researcher Profile". www.icddrb.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  8. PMID 24972632
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  9. PMID 33826814
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  10. PMID 31296738
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  11. ^ "icddr,b - Researcher Profile". www.icddrb.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
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