Profile

Academic Degrees and Qualification

• Postdoc (Medicine)
• Ph.D (Medical Parasitology)
• MPH (Implementation Research)
• MSc (Parasitology)
• DVM

Positions and Affiliations

• Director of External Affairs, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Associate Professor, Department of Parasitology, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh
• Visiting Professor, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
• Course Facilitator (Model Organisms), Chungbuk National University, Korea (Online)
• Executive Board 2022-2026 (Member at Large), World Federation of Parasitologists (WFP)
• Research Associate, International Parasite Resource Bank (iPRB), Republic of Korea
• Course Facilitator, Public Health, MIT World Peace University, India
• Fellow, Special Program on Implementation Research on Tropical Diseases, WHO/TDR-global (https://profiles.tdr-global.net/Chandra.Nath.Tilak)
• Coordinator, Parasite Resource Bank, Bangladesh
• Teaching and Research Assistant, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Korea
• Fellow, Parasitology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)

Other Academic, Administrative and Scientific Research Involvements

• Director, External Affairs, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Member, Academic Council, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Member, Internship Implementation Cell-2018, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Member, Ethical Committee for Human Research-2021, Public Health Association (South East Asia Chapter)
• Member, Ethical Committee-2015, Faculty of Veterinary, Animal & Biomedical Sciences, Sylhet Agricultural University.
• Member, Academic Committee, Department of Parasitology, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Member, Exam Committee (2014-2015), Department of Parasitology, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Assistant Hall Provost (01/2018-08/2018), Hazrat Shah Poral Hall, Sylhet Agricultural University

Awards and Recognitions

• NIIED KOREA Award for Academic Excellence-Ph.D. (2021)
• Dean Award (CBNU) for Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation (2022)
• Award for Academic Achievement (NIIED Dean's Award)-2020, National Institute for International Education, Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea
• Prime Minister Gold Medal-2010
• Chancellor Gold Medal-2011
• Cum-laude Universitas Gadjah Mada (Academic year 2016-2017)
• University Award-2008
• Academic Distinction-2008

Awards and Scholarships

• Suddhachar Award (2023), Sylhet Agricultural University
• DANIDA Fellowship (2022)
• Atlas of Living Australia Award 2024
• ISBER Young Scientist Grant (2024)
• University of Idaho Scholarship, USA (2021)
• Global Korea Scholarship, Korea (2018)
• WHO/TDR Postgraduate Scholarship (2015)
• Korea Global Foundation Fellowship (2019)
• Belt and Road Award (2019 & 2020)
• ICTMM Fellowship 2020

Role as Reviewer

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Springer Nature) ISSN : 2049-9957
• SN Applied Science (Springer Nature)
• Korean Journal of Parasitology ISSN : 0023- 4001
• Current World Environment ISSN: 09734929, 23208031
• Annals of parasitology ISSN: 22990631
• Veterinary Research Forum ISSN: 2008-8140
• Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences ISSN: 23093331, 23078316
• ASEAN Scientific Network

Professional Memberships

• Executive Board Member (2022-2026): World Federation of Parasitologists (WFP)
• British Society of Parasitology (BSP)-Member
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)- Member
• TDR-global (TDR Affiliates)
• Zoological Society of Bangladesh
• European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
• Korea Society of Parasitology
• Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)
• Gradate Forum of Social Determinant of Health, South East Asia
• ASEAN Association of Public Health
• Bangladesh Veterinary Council
• Bangladesh Veterinary Association
• Krishibid Institution, Bangladesh
• Banghabondu Krishibid Porishad
• Korean Society of Hypertension
• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
• Korean Society of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Other Social and Cultural Organization Involvement

• President, Debating Society, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Coordinator, KDCA Youth Club, Bangladesh
• Adviser, PRADHIKAR, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Adviser, Film Society, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Adviser, Photographic Society, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Life Member, Badhan, Bangladesh
• Adviser, Career Club, Sylhet Agricultural University

Conference contributions (Invited Speech)

• Invited Speech; Paranomics: Discovering Economy and Developing Parasite Biobank in Bangladesh. ISBER 2024; Melbourne, Australia; 9-12 April 2024.
• Invited Speech; Molecular Profiling of Caenorhabditis Nematode in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Asia Pacific Worm meeting (APWM 2024); Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, India; 12-16 June 2024.
• Invited Speech; One Health Approach: A Proposed Framework for Combating Parasitic Diseases in Poor Resource Setting; 38th European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Meeting (ESPID2020); 26-29 October 2020.
• Invited Speech; Health research mentorship in low- and middle-income countries-Bangladesh Perspectives; AHRI and TDR Global Research Mentorship Conference 2022; Armauer Hassen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia; 23-24 I 2022.
• Invited Speech; Paranomics: Discovering Economy and Developing Parasite Biobank in Bangladesh; BCSIR Congress 2022; Dhaka, Bangladesh; 8-10 March 2023.
• Invited Speech; The first human case of rhabditiasis in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Society of Parasitologists Congress (BSP2023); Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh; 12-14 October 2023.

Conference contributions (Oral Presentations)

• International Conference on Health Science (ICHS-2017); Date: 17-19 August, 2017; Venue: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
• Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference; Date: 16-18 September, 2016; Venue: Teikyo University, Japan
• International Symposium on Tropical Diseases; Date: 16-18 March, 2016; Venue: Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam
• The 10th Graduate Forum in Health System and Policy; Date: 03-05 March, 2016; Venue: United Nations University.

Conference contributions (Poster Presentations)

• International Symposium on Non-Communicable Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases; Date: 04-05 March, 2016; Venue: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
• International Workshop on Social Determinant of Health; Date: 16-19 August, 2016; Venue: Center for Health Policy and management, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Attended Conferences and Workshops

• Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany. Entomo-Nematology; Isolation and cultivation of nematode Pristionchus pacificus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) from the oriental beetle Exomala orientalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).
• Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ethiopia TDR AHRI Institutional Research Mentorship. Enhancing Institutional Research Mentorship in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Practical Guide
• University of Idaho, USA Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases (Human-Animal-Plant)
• University of Washington, USA Conservation of Parasitic Resources
• Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia Implementation Research with a focus on Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Training

• Helminths Bioinformatics 2023 Institution: Welcome Connecting Science, UK
• Biology of Vector-borne Diseases Institution: University of Idaho (USA)
• Implementation Research (IR) on Infectious Diseases of Poverty Institution: TDR (World Health Organization) & Institut Pasteur de Tunis (Tunisia)
• Surveillance to Measure the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Institution: TropEd and Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
• Good Clinical Practise-GCP Institution: WHO-TDR Regional Training Centre (South East Asia), Indonesia
• Social Determinant of Health Institution: Graduate Forum, United Nations University (Japan)
• Research Ethics Institution: Chungbuk National University (Korea)
• Qualitative Research Methods Institution: Hanoi University of Public Health (Vietnam)

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (MS)

• MS Supervisor, Department of Parasitology, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Institutional Mentor, TDR-global

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (Ph.D.)

• Ph.D. Supervisor, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
• Ph.D. Thesis Evaluator, University of Sindh, Pakistan

Language

• English
• Bengali
• Hangul (Korean)
• Bahasha Indonesia