I am a lecturer in Global Public Health at Teesside University. I am a public health nutritionist. I have been working on health, well-being, nutritional epidemiology, health inequality and community-based health interventions, mostly in Bangladesh and UK.  

Teaching and Supervision Roles:

I am currently the course leader in the BSc Public Health (Apprenticeships) course (2025-onwards). Module leader for Contemporary Public Health Issues (PIH1009) in this course.

I have been teaching the following modules in Masters in Public Health course: Epidemiology, Public Health in Context, Leadership and Management in Public Health, International Public Health and Data Analysis Methods. Module leadership in evidence based practice last year and involvement in delivery of taught modules in the professional doctorate programme.

Supervisor for students undertaking their masters' dissertations for a variety of masters courses, as well as supervisor for 8-10 PhD and professional doctoral projects. I have been supervising various placement projects (Previous role: Course Leader in Masters in Public Heallth Applied version).

Personal tutor to many sutdents in the BSc and MSc level.

A few of the projects where I have been involved in:

1. Integrated care for non-communicable diseases in Africa and Asia. project approved in the first stage for funding from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
2. Evaluation of SEARCH community engagement for health and well-being activities for older South Asian men and Chinese people living in Newcastle (Funded by National Lottery Community Fund, Co-Investigator, 2022- ).
3. Effectiveness of community health workers (CHW) and health equity in the low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) (Researcher, funded by Save the Children, 2019 - )
4. Participatory intervention to promote better health and nutrition in Bangladeshi immigrant children of Tower Hamlets living in East London (Researcher, NIHR funded, 2015 - ).
5. Aetiology of childhood rickets in Bangladesh (Principal investigator,  funded by the Medical Research Council, UK, 2009-2014).

I am a member of the Fuse Centre of NIHR School for Public Health Research and Teesside Centre for Puble Health Research. I am a member of Teesside University Ethics Committee. I am a reviewer of the Journal of Health and Population Research.

• MRC 100 years celebration in research: Poster nomination in 2013
• Best Project nomination for Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition in 2019
• Led and contributed to the development of the BSc Apprenticeship in Public Health course

My interest is around

• Research in public health and inequality- recently I had been working on older people's perception of health access in the UK
• Scoping exercise for secondary data availability and access for analyses: This is to accelerate developmental impact in achieving sustainable development goals (2,3,5,10)- I have organised an international workshop in Durham university to form colleaboration  with NGOs and their partners in Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
• Bone health and child health related issues: Poverty, malnutrition and environmental pollution and their impact on children's bone health