Rashid Zaman

Biography

Rashid Zaman is a medical doctor with post graduate diploma in health economics. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). He has international training and extensive experience in surveys, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, infection control and laboratory sciences. He started his research career with one of the pioneer survey research institutes of Bangladesh, Mitra and Associates and worked in a number of major national surveys including a series of public expenditure tracking and service delivery assessment surveys. Rashid then joined the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and worked in the field of infectious diseases. With funding from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US government and in collaboration with the government of Bangladesh, he took the major role in designing and establishing the country’s first national hospital based influenza surveillance system. He also worked in population based health utilization surveys and studies to measure the cost of illness or financial burden of diseases. At ICDDR,B he was involved in 18 research projects including as Principal Investigator in two projects.

He joined OPM in January 2010 and is working with the Health portfolio and is also involved with OPM projects in South Asia. He is the Project Manager of an impact assessment survey on health system strengthening in Pakistan. He is also working as a researcher with an M&E consultancy in Nepal. Rashid is the author of 17 publications, many in reputed international peer reviewed biomedical journals.