dation, Dr Chowdhury was a Deputy Executive Director of BRAC in Bangladesh,
where he set up and directed its Research and Evaluation Division. He was the
founding Dean of the James P Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University
in Dhaka. Dr Chowdhury is also a Professor of Population and Family Health at
the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University in New York. He also
served as a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for Population and
Development Studies. He is on the board and committees of several organizations
and initiatives. Some of these include: the International Advisory Board of the Centre for
Sustainable International Development at the University of Aberdeen, the Independent
Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative of WHO, the Mekong
Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) Foundation, the Steering Committee of the 2nd
International Symposium on Health System Research and the Advisory Committee
of the International Field Epidemiology Training Programme (IFETP) in Thailand. He is
also a member of the international evaluation teams for the Thai Health Promotion
Foundation and the Thai Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Scheme.