COMSTECH Distinguished Scholar Webinar on Public Health Career: Scope and Opportunities

Date: August 28, 2025, Time: 14:00-15:30 PKT
By:
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aziz Rahman
Professor of Public Health,
Research Adviser,
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia

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Introduction:

The webinar will showcase public health career pathway of the speaker along with scope and opportunities to contribute globally in this domain, including research, teaching, programs, collaboration, policies and advocacies.

Speaker Profile:

Professor Rahman is an experienced academic, a medical doctor, and a public health professional. He has worked in public health research and teaching for over 20 years in Australian and international settings. He has an excellent track record of providing leadership in completing different research and community projects successfully focusing on various aspects of public health, securing funding, producing high-quality research publications, supervising higher degree research students, assisting in capacity building, and providing supportive supervision to the early/mid-career researchers and collaborating successfully with experienced researchers. He has published more than 200 research papers in multidisciplinary journals with more than 125,000 citations. Due to his extraordinary track record of research citations, he has been ranked amongst the world’s top 2% scientists for the last five years (2020-24), ranking done by Elsevier BV and Stanford University, USA. He has contributed to generating over $13 million in funding in his professional career. He has extensive international research collaborations with over 25 countries and has successfully led several multi-country research projects with significant outputs.

Professor Rahman is currently working as the Professor of Public Health and Research Adviser at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia. He is also the Vice President of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA).

Who can attend?

Potential participants for the webinar include public health students and graduates, public health professionals, medical and healthcare practitioners, academic researchers and educators, policy makers and advocates, NGOs and community leaders, and early/mid-career researchers.

How to register

For registration, please fill the following form: Click Here

Zoom Link will be shared with the participants 1-2 days before the webinar.

Webinar Coordinator:
Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad
Program Officer
Haseeb.ahmad@comstech.org