Profile

Academic Degrees and Qualification

• Ph.D. (Epidemiology) 03/2009 — 06/2012 University of Copenhagen
• Post Doc 07/2014 — 09/2015 Technical University of Denmark
• M.Sc. (Epidemiology) 09/2005 — 02/2007 University of Utrecht
• D.V.M. 02/1997 — 02/2003 University of Chittagong

Positions and Affiliations

• September 2015 to till date - Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh
• October 2015 to July 2017 – Senior International Fellow, Programme on Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division, icddr,b,
• July 2014 to September 2015 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Epidemiology, National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark
• September 2012 to August 2015 – Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh
• December 2013 to June 2014 – Guest Faculty, Department of Public Health, North East University, Bangladesh
• January 2008 to August 2012 – Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
• July 2003 to December 2007– Lecturer, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
• January 2003 to June 2003 – Executive, Agro-Vet Division, Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Bangladesh

Other Academic, Administrative and Scientific Research Involvements

• Member, Advanced Studies Board, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, July 2019 –
• Country Coordinator (Bangladesh), in distance learning MSc Scholarships programme in Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, and Animal Health and Production of RVC, London, funded by the Commonwealth Commission, UK. (2008 intake)
• Member of the epidemiology team during curriculum development and integration of DVM course in Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Bangladesh, under the DELPHI project “Development of South Asia-specific Integrated Veterinary Undergraduate Curriculum,” sponsored by the British Council, DANIDA, DFID.in 2008
• Member of the academic committee of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, from 2007 through 2008
• Chairperson of the academic committee for designing curriculum and syllabus for Master of Science in Epidemiology and Public Health programme in Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh in 2013
• Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh from July 2018 -
• Director Student Counselling and Advice, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, January 2019 – September 2019
• Member, Dean Council, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, January 2019 – September 2019
• Section Head, Zoonotic Diseases Research Section, Programme on Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division, icddr,b, from October 2015 to July 2017
• Founder chairman of Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh from February 2013 to June 2014
• Director Outreach, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, February 2013 to June 2014
• Member, Research Advisory Committee, December 2012 - June 2014

Awards and Recognitions

• Young Scientist Award 2011 by ESWI (European Scientific Working group on Influenza)
• Faculty of Life Sciences Scholarship from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2009)
• Netherlands Fellowship Programme from the Netherlands Government (2005)
• Commonwealth Scholarship from Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (2005)
• Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship from Japan Government (2005)
• Merit Award 2003 (Gold Medal) in recognition of obtaining the highest CGPA in DVM examination 2000 (held in 2002), University of Chittagong

Role as Reviewer

• 2008- Reviewer for research protocols on infectious diseases of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
• 2010- Infection, Genetics and Evolution (Elsevier)
• 2010- PloS One (PloS Journals)
• 2011- The Journal of Infectious Diseases (Oxford journals)
• 2011- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (Wiley)
• 2012- Virological Methods (Elsevier)
• 2012- Preventive veterinary Medicine (Elsevier)
• 2013- Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)
• 2014- Reviewer for research protocols, National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan
• 2018- PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PloS Journals)
• 2018 - Epidemiology and Infection

Conference contributions (Invited Speech)

• Ahmed SSU: Food and Environment Safety in Commercial Poultry Production, a technical seminar organized by World’s Poultry Science Association- Bangladesh Branch (WPSA-BB) held on April 21, 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Ahmed SSU: Laboratory capacity of Bangladesh in regards to infectious diseases research, in round table discussion on Regional Laboratory Capacity at Indo-U.S. workshop on building regional capacity to tackle challenges of emerging infections and global health safety, was held from 8-11 May 2016, Victoria, Seychelles
• Ahmed SSU: Potential future area of internship research at 3rd National DVM Intern Research Conference (NDIRC-III) 2017 was held on November 18, 2017
• Ahmed SSU: Avian influenza at the poultry-human interface at Asia-Pacific Workshop on surveillance, prevention, and control of zoonotic influenza was held from August 29-31, 2016 Paro, Bhutan
• Ahmed SSU: To define and analyze cross-border and in-country livestock and livestock products market systems in Bangladesh at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Value Chain studies - wrap-up workshop, 11-12 March 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal

Conference contributions (Oral Presentations)

• Ahmed SSU, Toft N, Ersbøll AK: Spatial analysis and infectious disease epidemiology; presented at 10th CVASU Annual Scientific Conference was held on April 6, 2013, Chittagong, Bangladesh
• Sarkar S, Khan SU, Luby SP, Sturm-Ramirez K, Gurley ES, Rahman MZ, Davis CT, SSU. Ahmed, Kennedy ED, Influenza viruses in backyard poultry, pigs, and people of pig rearing households in Northwestern Bangladesh, 2014-2016; presented at the 4th International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface (ICOPHAI), 7-9 November 2017, Doha, Qatar
• Ahmed SSU, Themudo GE, Christensen JP, Biswas PK, Giasuddin M, Samad MA, Toft N, Ersbøll AK: Molecular Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Bangladesh; presented at The Fourth ESWI Influenza conference was held from 11-14 September 2011, Malta, Malta.
• Ahmed SSU, Ersbøll AK, Biswas PK, Toft N, Christensen JP: Spatial and Temporal Magnitude of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1), Bangladesh, 2007-2009, presented at 1st International One health Congress was held from 14-16 February 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
• Ahmed SSU, Ersbøll AK: Exploratory risk mapping of HPAI in Bangladesh and some methodological issues, presented at Eighth French-Danish Workshop on Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis in Biology was held from 17-19 May 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ahmed SSU, Tientsin T, Nielen M: Assesment of Spatio Temporal Pattern and Risk Factor in HPAI outbreaks; Thai outbreak 2004 and 2005, presented at in the fifth annual scientific conference of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 13 -14 march,2007, Chittagong, Bangladesh
• Islam A, Islam MS, Hossain K, Sarker RD, Rahman MZ, Hossain ME, Todd Davis CT, Iuliano AD, Ahmed SSU, Kennedy E. Mobile poultry vendors in Bangladesh: practices and movement patterns; presented at The Sixth ESWI (European Scientific Working Group on Influenza) Influenza Conference, Radisson Blu, Latvia, 10-13 September 2017
• Chowdhury S, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Trock SC, Hoque A, Zeidner N, Rahman Z, Hossain E, Ahmed SSU, Sturm-Ramirez K, Kennedy ED, Gurley ES. Association between bio-security Measures and Environmental Contamination with Avian Influenza Viruses in Live Bird Markets, Bangladesh; presented at 4th International One Health Congress & 6th Biennial Congress of the International Association for Ecology & Health, Australia, 2016
• Chowdhury S, Molitoris A, Rahman Z, Hossain E, Ghosh S, Ahmed SSU and Kennedy ED. Community-based surveillance to detect avian influenza in backyard poultry in Bangladesh; presented at the Sixth ESWI (European Scientific Working Group on Influenza) Influenza Conference, Radisson Blu, Latvia, 10-13 September 2017
• Shanta IS, Luby SP, Hossain K, Ahmed SSU, Rahman T, Kennedy E, Sharker Y, Kilpatrick AM, Pulliam JRC, Gurley ES; Determining hotspots of human exposure to rodents, bats and monkeys in Bangladesh; presented at 9th One Health Bangladesh Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 17-18 September 2017
• Ahmed SSU, Toft N, Christensen JP, Biswas PK, Ersbøll AK: Transmissibility Of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Bangladesh 20th BSVER (Bangladesh Society for Veterinary Education and Research); presented at Annual Scientific Conference was held from 22-23 February 2014, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
• Ahmed SSU, Halasa T, Toft N, Græsbøll K: Comparing pooling schemes for infectious disease surveillance; presented at the fourteenth conference of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE XII) was held from 3-7 November 2015, Yucatan, Mexico
• Shanta IS, Heffelfinger JD, Kafi MA, Ahmed F, Sultana S, Tiller R, Kennedy ED, Kadzik M, Islam A, Ahmed SSU, Rahman AKMA, Giasuddin M, and SS Johanna; Evidence of exposure to Brucella among humans and cows in Shahjadpur sub-district; a high milk-producing area in Bangladesh; 5th International One Health Congress, Saskatoon, Canada; 22-25 June 2017
• Shanta IS, Luby SP, Hossain K, Ahmed SSU, Rahman T, Kennedy E, Sharker Y, Kilpatrick AM, Pulliam JRC, Gurley ES; Determining hotspots of human exposure to rodents, bats and monkeys in Bangladesh; presented at International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED), Vienna, Austria; 4-7 November, 2016

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (MS)

• Nirmalendu Deb Nath, Session 2014-2015, Title: Prevalence and determinants of brucellosis in dairy cattle of Sylhet district. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Vashkar Malakar, Session 2014-2015, Title: Slaughterhouse prevalence and determinants of brucellosis in sheep and goats of Sylhet metropolitan city. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Md. Irtija Ahsan, Session 2014-2015, Title: Flock level prevalence and determinants of poultry coccidiosis in Sylhet district. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Hrithik Deb Apu, Session 2014-2015, Title: A space-time analysis of cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in Bangladesh; 2012-2014. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Margarida Arede, Session 2014-2015, Title: A space–time analysis of Mycoplasma bovis: bulk tank milk antibody screening results from all Danish dairy herds in 2013–2014, Degree programme: Masters in Epidemiology, Technical University Denmark
• Israt Sultana Ity, Session: 2021-2022, Title: Evaluation of screening tests characteristics of bovine brucellosis in Sylhet. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University (ongoing)
• Md Abu Sayeed, Session 2014-2015, Title: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice analysis for food safety in Bangladesh, Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Nur Alam Chowdhury, Session 2013-2014, Title: Importation risk analysis for notifiable animal diseases through cross border animal and animal product trading: A Bangladesh perspective. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Md. Shahidur Rahman Chowdhury, Session 2012-2013, Title: “Faecal egg count reduction test for assessing the efficacy of different combined preparation of anthelmintics against naturally infested gastrointestinal parasites in cattle” Degree programme: Master of Science (Veterinary Medicine), Sylhet Agricultural University (S.A.U.)
• Md. Bashir Uddin, Session 2008-2009, Title: ‘Study on Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Virus Infection Based on Veterinary Hospital Patients’- Degree programme: : Master of Science (Veterinary Medicine), Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)
• Md. Habibur Rahman, Session 2008-2009, Title: ‘A Case-Control Study on the Risk Factors Associated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Virus (H5N1) Infection to Commercial Chickens in Chittagong District’- Degree programme: - Master of Science (Veterinary Microbiology), Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)
• Ananna Talukder Jeny, Session: 2021-2022, Title: Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in goats in the Sylhet district of Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University (ongoing)
• Md. Khademul Islam, Session: 2021-2022, Title: Epidemiological study and antimicrobial resistance profile of zoonotic Listeria monocytogens isolates from raw meat and milk in Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University (ongoing)
• Md. Mashfiq Hossain Khadem, Session: 2021-2022, Title: True prevalence and determinants of bovine brucellosis in Sylhet. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet
• Himel Talukder, Session 2020-2021, Title: Global Burden, host range and spatiotemporal variation of toxoplasma gondii in animal population: A systematic review and meta analysis. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Ranjit Adhikary, Session 2014-2015, Title: Prevalence and risk factor study of avian endoparasite in Sylhet region. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Sonia Nazneen, Session 2014-2015, Title: Tick distribution and Prevalence of Bovine haemoprotozoan in Sylhet region and their determinant analysis. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Samuel Muhit, Session 2015 – 2016, Title: Optimization of research cost using pooled samples: Sero-survey of Coxiella burnetii infection in Sylhet dairy cattle as an example. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Mohammad Misbah Uddin, Session 2020-2021, Title: Risk based survey on farms with abortion history to determine the burden of abortion attributed by Brucellosis. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Ahsan Raquib, Session 2020-2021, Title: Sero-prevalence of Brucellosis in Human and Animal of Bangladesh: a systemic review and meta analysis. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Anik Kumar Kar, Session 2015 – 2016, Title: Spatio-epidemiological investigation of Coxiella buretti seropositivity of dairy cattle in Sylhet division. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Moumita Das, Session 2015-2016, Title: Epidemiological evidence of Coxiella burnetii Seropositivity in Sylhet Dairy Cattle. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Sawrab Roy, Session 2018-2019, Title: Burden and Determinants of Newcastle disease in Backyard chicken. Degree programme: Master of science in Microbiology and Immunology, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Konad Debnath, Session 2020-2021, Title: Demoraphic and meterological determinants of SARS-COV-2 pandemic in Bangladesh . Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural University
• Safwan Hossain, Session 2020-2021, Title: Bayesian evaluation of two serological tests for the diagnosis of New Castle disease in north eastern region of Bangladesh. Degree programme: Master in Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylhet Agricultural Universit

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (Ph.D.)

• Abdul Kahir:2022 – Risk factors associated with pesti des petits rumianats seo-positivity in goats and perception and behaviours on the disease control among pro-poor goat farmers in Bangladesh. (ongoing)
• A.S.M Ashab Uddin; 2018- : Emergence of antimicrobial resistance (A.M.R.), foodborne and zoonotic pathogens in poultry in Bangladesh, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh (ongoing)
• Md. Lutfur Rahman; 2018- : Exploring Antibiotic uses in ruminant and chicken in Bangladesh, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh (ongoing)
• Sukanta Chowdhury: 2017-2019: Dpatterns of avian influenza circulation in poultry sold at live bird markets and factors associated with the risk of avian influenza circulation, Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
• PhD candidate: FASANMI, Olubunmi Gabriel: 2015-2018: Title: Epidemiological modelling for the mitigation of HPAI H5N1 in parts of Africa (Egypt and Nigeria) PhD awarded from Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa