Miss Shahida Chowdhury
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health
United Kingdom
I am a doctorate researcher working on health disparities in infectious diseases. At present, my PhD work is focussing on tuberculosis and is looking at persistent health inequalities within a dynamic cohort of over 130million individuals, referred to as the "The 100Million Brazilian Cohort", in collaboration with partners at CIDACS-Fiocruz (Salvador, Brazil).
Previously, I have worked on country-wide seroprevalence data (across 13 major cities in the Philippines), in collaboration with the RITM (the research arm of the Philippines' DoH), to investigate the effects of environmental variables on dengue transmission intensity, and to identify risk factors associated with long-term exposure and disease burden. In a separate laboratory-based biomedical project, I have worked to explore the effects of NS1 of the A/PR/8/34 strain on IFN induction and general gene expression.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am a tutor on the Neglected Tropical Diseases module at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as well as teach practical anatomy and imaging to medical (MBBS) and bioscience (BSc and MSc Medical Physics) students at University College London.
Research
My research interests include all aspects of communicable disease epidemiology, from emerging infectious diseases, diagnostics, clinical trials, surveillance and control, outbreak pathogens and investigations, and vaccine design and epidemiology. I have a specific interest in tuberculosis and arboviruses (particularly dengue fever) and my current research is looking at health disparities in those respective diseases.
