Biography

Rashid Zaman is a medical doctor with postgraduate qualifications in health economics and public health. He has international training and extensive experience in surveys, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, infection control and laboratory sciences. He started his research career with a survey research institute in Bangladesh and has worked on a number of major national surveys, including a series of public expenditure tracking and service delivery assessment surveys. He then joined the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh and worked for more than three years in the US-centres for disease control and prevention in the Emerging Infectious Disease Programme in Bangladesh. He took the major role in designing and establishing the country's first national hospital-based influenza surveillance system. He joined OPM in January 2010 and is currently working on health projects, particularly in south Asia. He was the project manager of a USAID-funded impact assessment survey of a health system strengthening project in Pakistan and a WHO-funded tracking survey that monitored the progress of the global agenda on human resources in health in 57 countries. Rashid has authored more than 20 publications, many in international peer-reviewed biomedical journals.