Professor Quazi Monirul Islam

 

Professor Islam is a global public health specialist with extensive experience in Health System, Maternal and Child Health, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and PHC programmes. He received his medical degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and received a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands. He was awarded FRCOG by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UK. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Prince Songkla University, Thailand. Prof Islam teaches at various universities in UK, Japan, Thailand and the Netherlands. He supervises PhD students and is a PhD examiner at Price Songkla University.

Prof Islam worked in a rural health complex in Bangladesh before going to Botswana in 1981. He worked there for ten years in 1991. He joined the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Public Health Consultant, advising the Ministry on their bilateral and multilateral contributions to health and population programmes. In 1992, he was invited to join the Global Programme on AIDS in the WHO/HQ and was responsible for STD programme. He thereafter joined the Reproductive Health Programme as Chief of Population and Family Planning Unit and subsequently as Team Coordinator, Norms and Tools in the Reproductive Health and Research Department. He was reassigned as Director, Family Health and Development department, WHO Regional Office in India and moved back to WHO/HQ as the Director of Making Pregnancy Safer Department. He retired in 2017 as WHO Country Representative to Namibia and joined as Senior Specialist (maternal and newborn), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK.