Dr. Tapash Roy has over 22 years of combined implementation research and program management experience in the field of public health both at developing and developed country settings. More than fourteen of those years have been spent working for NGOs (IRD Bangladesh, BRAC) in Bangladesh. He also worked as a Research Fellow and Research Coordinator at the University of Nottingham and the Open University, United Kingdom for six years.
Tapash is also one of the Commissioners of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He is on the board and technical committees of several organizations and initiatives, including Member of the WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, NCD Alliance, and Member of Technical Advisory Committees on NCDs and Eye Health of the Government of Bangladesh.
He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and scholarships- including the ‘HIV Research Trust Award 2007’, ‘Medical Research Council UK Award 2005’ and ‘Wellcome Trust Fellowship Award 2002’.
Tapash’s areas of interest and expertise include multidisciplinary implementation research, strategic planning; program development, management and implementation in the area of sexual and reproductive health, maternal, newborn and child health, adolescent health, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, eye health, rational use of medicines, mHealth, mental health and NCDs.
He holds a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Nottingham; a MPH from the University of Edinburgh; a Diploma in Reproductive Health from Uppsala University, Sweden; and an MBBS degree from Bangladesh. He is an Adjunct Faculty of Public Health and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Nottingham and James Peter Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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