1. Muhammad Mizanur Rashid Shuvra
400 Mc Levin Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1B5J4 ● P h: 647-894-3937 ● mr.shuvra@gmail.com
HIGHLIGHTS OF RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS
 4+ years experience in public health research and program implementation in
University, not-for-profit developmental and research organization
 4+ years experience writing and managing research and program grant proposals,
project reports and manuscripts as Senior Researcher Investigator, Deputy Project
Coordinator and University faculty
 Public Health Research and Project management experience in the field of child
health, child development, women empowerment, domestic violence, mHealth, medical
education, infectious disease
 Proven skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis using PSAW/SPSS, STATA,
Epi Info and Atlas ti
 Experienced in developing courses and teaching Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed
Methods Research, Global Health Data Collection and Analysis, Introduction to Global
Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Pharmaceutical Statistics, in USA and Bangladesh
 Trained in andragogy and curriculum development including working experience in
Problem Based Learning
 Served as a member of the subcommittee for developing undergraduate public health
program at George Washington University, USA
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Small and Large Scale Research and Management experiences
 Began career as a research assistant for piloting Problem Based Learning in Medical
Colleges in Bangladesh and scaling up thereafter.
 Co-Authored research proposals, concept notes, managed four large scale research
activities analyzed data in the field of Domestic violence and women empowerment; i.e.
(i) One large scale cross sectional surveys (ii) One large scale community based randomized
control trial (iii) Psychometric research for reliability and validity of scale (iv) Five year follow-up
study on maternal and child health. These projects were in collaboration with Emory
University and University of Uppsala and funded by fhi360 and Swedish SIDA.
 Project management experience as coordinator of country wide infectious disease
outbreak and surveillance program at fourteen tertiary healthcare sites in Bangladesh
funded by Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA in collaboration with the
Government of Bangladesh.
 Developed research proposals and completed two independent public health
researches during two Masters theses (MPH and MSc in ECD).
 The quantitative cross sectional design used for the Master of Public Health thesis
investigated dose-response relationship between arsenic in drinking water and
breastmilk arsenic concentration in breastfeeding mothers using multivariate

2. regression modeling.
 Master thesis in Early Childhood Development used mixed methods research to
explore disinclination among children in Grades 1 and 2 to attend school and
related factors.
 Winner of the 2006 World Bank Development Marketplace award for piloting the first
mHealth project in Bangladesh.
Experiences as faculty of public health and related field
 Developed and taught Global Health Methods, Global Health Data Analysis,
Introduction to Global Health courses in Post Graduate and Undergraduate Global
Health courses in the USA
 Developed and taught courses on Quantitative Research Methods, Epidemiology and
Biostatistics in Post Graduate Public Health courses in Bangladesh
 Supervised over 150 post graduate public health and pharmacy students’ thesis
 Designed and facilitated Mixed Methods Research Workshop at icddr,b
 Designed and facilitated several training sessions on quantitative data analysis using
SPSS and STATA and Qualitative data analysis sign Atlas ti.

3. RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Full time positions Employment
period
Location
Research Assistant
Center or Medical Education, Bangladesh
2003-2004 Bangladesh
Training officer
Child Sight Foundation (Previously known as Childhood
Blindness Project Bangladesh)
2004-2005 Bangladesh
Lecturer
James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC
University
2006-2008 Bangladesh
Visiting Instructor
Center for Global Health, The George Washington
University
2008-2010 USA
Lecturer
James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC
University
2010-2011 Bangladesh
Senior Research Investigator
Center for Equity and Health Systems
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh
2011-2013 Bangladesh
Deputy Project Coordinator
Center for Communicable Diseases
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh
2013-2015 Bangladesh
Part time position
Lecturer
East West University
2011-2013 Bangladesh
Coordinator, Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Independent University
2012-2015 Bangladesh

4. EDUCATION HISTORY
Master of Science in Early Childhood Development (Received Vice Chancellor's Gold
Medal award)
BRAC University, Bangladesh
Master of Public Health (Received highest distinction and prestigious ‘Fazle Hasan Award for
Best Overall Performance’)
BRAC University, Bangladesh
Equivalent to Canadian Standard M.Sc. In Public Health, as determined by World Education
Services.
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Dhaka University, Bangladesh
Equivalent to Canadian Standard of Doctor of Medicine (MD) as determined by World
Education Services)
REFERENCES AVAILABLE IF REQUESTED
(in journals indexed in the Index Medicus, PubMed)
1. Colonic perforation due to necrotizing amoebic colitis. Hasan M, Islam MA, Siddiqua SS, Shuvra MR. My-
mensingh Med J. 2003 Jan; 12(1): 61-3.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=Pub-
Med&list_uids=12715648&dopt=Abstract)
2. Knowledge and attitude of faculty members on Problem Based Learning. Rahman ME, Rahman S, Musa KM,
Shuvra MR. Mymensingh Med J. 2004 Jan; 13(1): 20-24 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/en-
trez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14747779).
3. Evaluation of the concept of clinical refreshers course conducted for the teachers of postgraduate medical
institutes. Md. Humayun Kabir Talukder, Fatima Parveen Chowdhury, Muhammad Mizanur Rashid Shuvra.
Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy. 2005 Jan; 3(1):3-7
4. Teachers' views of WHO teaching guidelines on health ethics for undergraduate medical education in Bang-
ladesh. Md. Humayun Kabir Talukder, Fatima Parveen Chowdhury, Muhammad Mizanur Rashid Shuvra. In-
dian J Med Ethics. 2005 April-June; 2(2).
(http://www.ijme.in/132ie054.html)
5. Evidence of Arsenic in human milk: A Preliminary Study on Dose Response Relationship – Abstract pub-
lished in the Proceedings of 2nd
National Conference on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding, 19-20
August 2006 ICMH, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

5. 6. Men’s attitudes and practices regarding Gender and Violence against women in Bangladesh: preliminary
findings. Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Hamidul Huque, Subrina Farah, Muhammad Mizanur Rashid Shuvra. No-
vember 2011 (http://www.partners4prevention.org/sites/default/files/resources/final_report_bangla-
desh.pdf)