Meerjady Sabrina Flora

Meerjady Sabrina Flora is a Bangladeshi physician, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health specialist. At present she is the Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR),[1] which is Bangladesh's main center for conducting disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, disease control, epidemic prevention and research.

Meerjady Sabrina Flora
মীরজাদী সেব্রিনা ফ্লোরা
Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research
Assumed office
2016
Personal details
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materDhaka Medical College
University of Cambridge

She is a fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research. She is also the vice president of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes.[2]

Biography

Flora enrolled in Dhaka Medical College in 1983.[3] After obtaining her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree, she worked in several multinational institutions.[3] She received her master's degree in epidemiology from the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) and she received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge.[3]

Later, she worked at the Bangladesh Medical Research Council for three years as the Assistant Director. She joined NIPSOM afterwards as the Assistant Professor of the Department of Epidemiology and was promoted to a Professor gradually.[3] She was appointed as the Director of the IEDCR in 2016.[3]

References
  1. "Officers & Staff". www.iedcr.gov.bd. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. "Executive Board, IANPHI". ianphi.org. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  3. "Women in Science". Ice Today. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.


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