Dr Md Shahidul (Shahid) Islam

Senior Lecturer in Health, Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator, Health Management and Public Health - School of Health - Faculty of Medicine and Health

Md Shahidul (Shahid) Islam

Phone: +61 2 6773 3670

Email: mislam27@une.edu.au

Biography

Dr Islam is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator for Health Management and Public Health Programs in the School of Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New England (UNE), Armidale, Australia. He completed his PhD from the School of Health, UNE and MSc in International Health from the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Bachelor (Honours) and Master degrees in Sociology from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) and an Executive Committee member for the Society for Health Administration Programs in Education (SHAPE), Australia.

Dr Islam is an experienced academic in Public Health and Health Management, who worked across Asia, Europe and Australia as academic and researcher for over 20 years. His research portfolio is largely within the interdisciplinary and general field of Health Sciences. He is experienced supervisor with over 10 years supervising more than 30 graduate and higher degree research (MPhil/PhD) students, and also having over 60 peer reviewed publications including two books in health sciences areas. He is serving as Editorial Board Member of BMC Health Services Research.

Qualifications

PhD (UNE, Australia), MSC (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), MSS, BSS Honours (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), DTMH (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), AFCHSM (Australia), CHM (Australia)

Teaching Areas

Health and Social Care, Health and Community Services, Leadership in Healthcare, Systems and Policy in Healthcare, Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Epidemiology, Capstone Project

Teaching Awards

  • University of New England (UNE) “School Citation for Education Excellence” 2021
  • University of New England (UNE) “Certificate of Commendation” T1 2021- HLTH102, Interprofessional Practice in Health and Social Care

Research Interests

Public Health, One Health, Health Management, Health Care and Service, eHealth, Mental Health, COVID-19, and HIV/AIDS

Research Supervision Experience

PhD Completion

Year

Student Names

Principal/co-supervisor

2023

Asnakew Achaw Ayele

Principal Supervisor

2023

Syadani Riyad Fatema

Co-supervisor

2022

Humayun Kabir

Co-supervisor

2021

Mohammad Alkhamees

Principal Supervisor

2021

Abdullah Saleh A Alruwaili

Co-supervisor

Current Research Student Supervision

Student Name

Degree

Principal/co-supervisor

Naomi Gyamfi

PhD

Co-supervisor

Daniel Teshome Gebeyehu

PhD

Principal Supervisor

Shaharior Rahman Razu

PhD

Principal Supervisor

Gashaw Enbiyale Kasse

PhD

Principal Supervisor

Eid Alrdadi

MPhil

Principal Supervisor

Yumiko Catherine

MPhil

Co- Supervisor, from 11.8.2020 – 2.7.2021, Change in supervisory team