Associate Professor Md Shahidul (Shahid) Islam
Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Health
Phone: +61 2 6773 3670
Email: mislam27@une.edu.au
Building: Office 5, Room 2.89, Level 1 ITD Building C034
Biography
Dr Islam is a senior lecturer in Health and Course Coordinator for Health Management 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 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 was a former Associate Professor and Head of the Sociology Discipline at Khulna University, Bangladesh. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) and an Executive Committee member for Society for Health Administration Programs in Education (SHAPE), Australia.
Dr Islam is an experienced academic in public health and the social sciences, 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 20 graduate and higher degree research (MPhil/PhD) students, and also having over 40 peer reviewed publications including two books in health sciences areas.
