Close

Dr Farhana Haque

Assistant Professor

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
LONDON
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

The goal of my career is to reduce the risk and impact of infectious diseases and climate change and ensure health and wellbeing for all irrespective of nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, and social, sexual, religious orientation. I have a broad background in medical epidemiology, with expertise in intervention implementation and evaluation. Prior to joining LSHTM/UK-PHRST as an Assistant Professor, I was a PhD researcher at the Institute for Global Health (IGH), UCL. Before joining UCL, I was an Associate Scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). During 2010-2015, I was seconded from icddr,b to the national mandated institute for outbreak investigation and response, IEDCR of the Government of Bangladesh for 5 years.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I have more than 14 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience on a full-time and part-time capacity in various subjects related to public health including research methods, clinical epidemiology, public policy and applied epidemiology. I am a co-module organiser for the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions module at LSHTM. I also teach at the DL Epidemiology and Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies modules. I have mentored and supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate students successfully. In my teaching role, I aim to improve undergraduate and postgraduate education using participatory research to incorporate stakeholders’ perspectives based on utilizing the principles of appropriate learning theories.

Research

My research aims to evaluate public health interventions and determine the aetiology, transmission routes and dynamics of infectious diseases and to recommend control and preventive measures with special focus on resource-constrained and humanitarian emergency settings. In addition, I intend to determine the human health impacts of climate variability and long-term changes in the global climate and devise community-based adaptation measures, enhance the evidence-base to transform the health systems in LMICs including Bangladesh.

Research Area
Epidemiology
Field epidemiology
Implementation science
Evaluation
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious diseases
Country
Kenya
Uganda
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Namibia
South Africa
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Middle East & North Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Shifting Geographical Transmission Patterns: Characterizing the 2023 Fatal Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh
Hasan, MN; Rahman, M; Uddin, M; Ashrafi, SA A; Rahman, KM; Paul, KK; Sarker, MF R; HAQUE, F; Sharma, A; Papakonstantinou, D; Paudyal, P; Asaduzzaman, M; Zumla, A; Haider, N;
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Effects of diurnal temperature range on diarrhea in the subtropical megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh
HAQUE, F; Lampe, F; Hajat, S; Stavrianaki, K; Hasan, SM T; Faruque, AS G; Jubayer, S; Kelman, I; Ahmed, T;
2024
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Impact of international deployments on epidemic response in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A mixed-methods systematic review protocol
HAQUE, F; Bigirimana, R; Glazik, R; Clery, E; Kamara, N; Aragaw, M; Nzegwu, F;
2024
Research Square Platform LLC
Infrastructure alone cannot ensure resilience to weather events in drinking water supplies.
Charles, KJ; Howard, G; Villalobos Prats, E; Gruber, J; Alam, S; Alamgir, AS M; Baidya, M; Flora, MS; HAQUE, F; Hassan, SM Q; Islam, S; Lazaro, A; Lwetoijera, DW; Mahmud, SG; Mahmud, ZH; Matwewe, F; Pasa, K; Rahman, M; Reza, AA S; Selimuzzaman, M; Sharif, AR; Sharma, S; Thomas, JM; Campbell-Lendrum, D;
2021
Science of the total environment
High-throughput low-cost nl-qPCR for enteropathogen detection: A proof-of-concept among hospitalized patients in Bangladesh.
Flaherty, KE; Grembi, JA; Ramachandran, VV; HAQUE, F; Khatun, S; Rahman, M; Maples, S; Becker, TK; Spormann, AM; Schoolnik, GK; Hryckowian, AJ; Nelson, EJ;
2021
PloS One
High-throughput low-cost nl-qPCR for enteropathogen detection: A proof-of-concept among hospitalized patients in Bangladesh. S1 Dataset
Flaherty, KE; Grembi, JA; Ramachandran, VV; HAQUE, F; Khatun, S; Rahman, M; Maples, S; Becker, TK; Spormann, AM; Schoolnik, GK; Hryckowian, AJ; Nelson, EJ;
2021
PLOS ONE
Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study.
Islam, MS; Hasan, SM M; Salzer, JS; Kadzik, M; HAQUE, F; Haider, N; Hossain, MB; Islam, MA; Rahman, M; Kennedy, E; Gurley, ES;
2020
Transboundary and emerging diseases
Social Enterprise Model (SEM) for private sector tuberculosis screening and care in Bangladesh.
Banu, S; HAQUE, F; Ahmed, S; Sultana, S; Rahman, MM; Khatun, R; Paul, KK; Kabir, S; Rahman, SM M; Banu, RS; Islam, MS; Ross, AG; Clemens, JD; Stevens, R; Creswell, J;
2020
PloS one
Gold Standard Cholera Diagnostics Are Tarnished by Lytic Bacteriophage and Antibiotics.
Nelson, EJ; Grembi, JA; Chao, DL; Andrews, JR; Alexandrova, L; Rodriguez, PH; Ramachandran, VV; Sayeed, MA; Wamala, JF; Debes, AK; Sack, DA; Hryckowian, AJ; HAQUE, F; Khatun, S; Rahman, M; Chien, A; Spormann, AM; Schoolnik, GK;
2020
Journal of clinical microbiology
Electronic decision support and diarrhoeal disease guideline adherence (mHDM): a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Khan, AI; Mack, JA; Salimuzzaman, M; Zion, MI; Sujon, H; Ball, RL; Maples, S; Rashid, MM; Chisti, MJ; Sarker, SA; Biswas, D; Hossin, R; Bardosh, KL; Begum, YA; Ahmed, A; Pieri, D; HAQUE, F; Rahman, M; Levine, AC; Qadri, F; Flora, MS; Gurka, MJ; Nelson, EJ;
2020
The Lancet. Digital health
See more information