Dr. Muhammad Shariful Islam
Dhaka
Summary
Dynamic health consultant with extensive experience at WHO, excelling in stakeholder engagement and data analysis. Proven track record in policy development and program management, successfully drafting and finalizing national health strategies. Adept at leading teams and fostering collaboration, driving impactful health initiatives to enhance maternal and child health outcomes.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant, to Provide Support for Developing School Immunization Strategy and Operational Guideline
World Health Organization (WHO)
04.2024 - 03.2025
- Review existing global documents: Systematically and comprehensively review school immunization-related strategies and documents on school immunization, which are currently followed by other countries.
- Update Content: Revise and enhance the strategy to reflect current health data and best practices.
- Stakeholder Consultation: Engage with key stakeholders, including healthcare EPI stakeholders, policymakers, mid-level managers, service providers, and key persons from education directorates, for input and feedback.
- Data Analysis: Analyze several years' relevant health statistics, EPI Coverage Evaluation Survey data, and research to prepare a draft update of the strategy and guidelines.
- Drafting Document: Prepare a draft of the updated National Newborn Health Strategy and guidelines, and share it with the stakeholders for review and feedback.
- Finalization Process: Ensure the draft is finalized, incorporating feedback from consultations and analyses.
- Approval Coordination: Facilitate the process for obtaining the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Health.
- Documentation: Maintain detailed records of revisions, consultations, and approval processes.
- Communication: Communicate regularly with the project supervisor and other UNICEF team members regarding progress and challenges.
- Accomplishment: Prepared and submitted a final draft of strategy and a guideline for endorsement by the appropriate authority progress reports outlining key activities and outcomes throughout the contract duration.
Consultant for Revise and Update National Newborn Health Strategy (NNHS)
UNICEF, Bangladesh
01.2024 - 03.2024
- Review Existing Strategy: Conduct a comprehensive review of the current National Newborn Health Strategy.
- Update Content: Revise and enhance the strategy to reflect current health data and best practices.
- Stakeholder Consultation: Engage with key stakeholders, including healthcare providers, and policymakers, for input and feedback.
- Data Analysis: Analyze relevant health statistics and research to inform updates to the strategy.
- Drafting Document: Prepare a draft of the updated National Newborn Health Strategy for review.
- Finalization Process: Ensure the draft is finalized, incorporating feedback from consultations and analyses.
- Approval Coordination: Facilitate the process for obtaining the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Health.
- Documentation: Maintain detailed records of revisions, consultations, and approval processes.
- Communication: Communicate regularly with the project supervisor and other UNICEF team members regarding progress and challenges.
- Accomplishment: Submitted a final draft of the National Newborn Health Strategy (NNHS) for endorsement by the Ministry of Health, outlining key activities and outcomes throughout the contract duration.
Program Manager, National Newborn Health Program and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (NNHP and IMCI)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Dhaka
12.2019 - 03.2023
- Neonatal Mortality Reduction: Focused on achieving SDG goals of a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of 12 per 1,000 live births, and an under-five mortality rate (U5MR) of 25 per 1,000 live births.
- Facility Readiness: Established Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Centers, Small Care Newborn Units (SCANU), and Newborn Stabilizing Units (NSU) at public health facilities.
- IMCI Implementation: Created Facility-IMCI corners in hospitals to manage diseases in under-five children.
- National Strategies Development: Initiated to review and update the National Newborn Health Strategy, and to develop the National Child Health Strategy.
- Capacity Development: Provided extensive training for healthcare providers on KMC management, IMCI protocols, and Day Care approaches for severe pneumonia.
- Logistics Management: Ensured uninterrupted procurement and supply of essential medicines and logistics.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintained strong partnerships with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO, and various NGOs.
- Monitoring and Supervision: Regularly supervised and monitored performance at MCH, district, and sub-district hospitals.
- Integrated Services Approach: Piloted integrated child vaccination and IMCI services in select health facilities.
- Awareness Campaigns: Developed social and behavior change communication (SBCC) materials, and conducted awareness campaigns.
Line Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, DGHS
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
Dhaka
12.2022 - 02.2023
- Leadership: Lead to the development of the MNCAH operation plan for the 5th health sector program.
- Budget Development: Lead in developing a draft individual budget for EPI, Maternal Health, Newborn and Child Health (NNHP & IMCI), Adolescent, and School Health programs.
- Team Lead: Lead the implementation of the activities of the five programs of the MNCAH operation plan.
- Procurement and supply: Lead in developing the annual procurement plan, as per the budget of the MNCAH operation plan.
- Capacity Development: Provided refresher training to the EPI service providers.
- Facility Readiness: Provided support to establish the Newborn Stabilizing Unit (NSU) and the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Corner.
- Guideline Development: Led to the development of guidelines on Family-Centered Care, and Early Childhood Care and Development.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintained strong partnerships with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO, PATH, and various NGOs for integrated health initiatives.
- Performance improvement: Routinely organized performance appraisal workshops for sub-national-level managers.
- Monitoring and Supervision: Regularly supervised and monitored performance at the medical college hospital, district, and sub-district hospitals.
- Awareness campaigns and workshops: Developed social and behavior change communication (SBCC) materials, and conducted awareness campaigns.
- International communication: I attended national and international workshops and seminars, both physically and virtually.
Project Coordinator, Enteric and Respiratory Infectious Unit
icddr,b
Dhaka
11.2015 - 07.2019
- Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) Study: Participated in studies assessing the feasibility, effectiveness, protective efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and temperature stability of mass cholera vaccination.
- Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Study: Engaged in a phase IIIb trial evaluating a Vi-Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine to prevent typhoid among Bangladeshi children.
- Humanitarian Crisis Response: Collaborated with the government to implement a preemptive cholera vaccination campaign for Rohingya refugees.
- National Cholera Control Plan: Contributed to developing Bangladesh's national cholera control plan in line with the WHO's strategy.
Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
Jaintapur, Bangladesh
10.2015 - 11.2015
- Leadership: As a manager of a sub-national level health facility, I led the implementation of all government health care activities, especially immunization, maternal health, and newborn and child health.
- Ensure Supply: Ensured supply of logistics, medicines, vaccines, and printing materials.
- Ensure Vaccine Quality: Ensure that immunization services are provided as per SOP, and quality is maintained.
- Ensure Health Service: Ensure proper management, including indoor and outdoor services for all populations of the respective sub-district.
- Monitoring and Supervision: Supervised service providers' activities and monitored service status and performance.
- Staff meeting and progress analysis: Presided over the routine staff meeting, analyzed data, identified gaps, and provided feedback for improvement.
- Reporting: Routinely sent service and staff performance reports to the MIS of the Directorate General’s office.
- Attend performance appraisal workshops: Attend national-level performance appraisal workshops and present on the progress of program activities.
Consultant Stop Polio Program (STOP Team 41)
WHO
Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
03.2013 - 06.2013
- Company Overview: Country Office, Peshawar, KP Province, Pakistan.
- Participated in developing a polio eradication action plan for the high-risk population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Pakistan.
- Reviewed the activities of Permanent Transit Teams, and reorganized the teams' positions to provide better service.
- Conducted supportive supervision of EPI activities at outreach and fixed-site EPI sessions.
- Monitored vaccine supply, logistics, and cold chain management.
Consultant Stop Polio Program (STOP Team 40)
World Health Organization
Kampala, Uganda
08.2012 - 12.2012
- Company Overview: WHO Country Office, Kampala, Uganda.
- Oriented and sensitized health facility surveillance personnel, health facility staff, are available during the visit.
- Active search of suspected AFP, Measles, and NNT using OPD, IPD, and registers.
- Case-based investigation of the most recent cases, with priority for AFP and measles cases.
- Prepared the STOP 40 assignment final report and submitted it to the WHO country office and the CDC in Atlanta.
Deputy Program Manager (EPI)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Dhaka, Bangladesh
10.2009 - 07.2012
- Routine EPI: Yearly organized workshops for reviewing and updating the routine EPI micro-plan.
- New Vaccine Introduction: Worked to introduce the Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine, Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV), and Pneumonia Conjugate Vaccine (PCV-10) in the routine EPI.
- Supplementary Immunization Activities Campaigns: Worked to observe National Immunization Days (NIDs) every year until the country became polio-free.
- Other activities: Organized an orientation program on EPI for medical college students.
Medical Officer
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Different Districts, Bangladesh
04.1994 - 10.2009
- Company Overview: Ministry of Health, Bangladesh
- Worked to implement government-assigned all health programs.
Education
Master of Public Health (MPH) -
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM)
01.2007
MBBS -
Mymensingh Medical College
Mymensingh, Bangladesh01.1990
Skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Data analysis
- Policy development
- Program management
- Document drafting
- Health strategy
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Capacity building
- Communication skills
- Budget management
- Team leadership
- Project coordination
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 03/21/64
- Nationality: Bangladeshi
Publications
- The impact and cost-effectiveness of controlling cholera through the use of oral cholera vaccines in urban Bangladesh, Khan AI et al, 2018, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12, 10, e0006652
- Oral cholera vaccination strategy: self-administration of the second dose in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019, Vaccine, 37, 6, 02/04/19, 827-832
- Field evaluation of a locally produced rapid diagnostic test for early detection of cholera in Bangladesh, Islam M.T et al., 2019, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13, 1, e0007124
References
- Dr. Ashraful Islam Khan, Scientist, Infectious Diseases Division, International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, +88-01730076276, ashrafk@icddrb.org
- Dr. Md. Shamsul Haque, Former Director, DGHS and Line Director, MNCAH, EPI Head Quarter, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh, 01711858867, cshaqueshamsul1963@gmail.com
Training And Professional Development
- International Vaccinology Course, 09/01/18, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea
- WHO Training on Integration of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in Cholera Control programmes, 11/01/16, Geneva, Switzerland
- Training on Strengthening AEFI Monitoring and causality Assessment, 10/01/10, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
- TOT for Upazila Trainers Team, 06/01/02, Institute of Child and Mother Health (ICMH), Matuail, Dhaka
- Clinical Management Training Program on ARI, 11/01/02, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka
Languages
Bengali
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Accomplishments
- Awarded by the Secretary of Health, MOH, for working in the emergency created by a sudden influx of Rohingya refugees. Here, I led the conduct of four rounds of oral cholera vaccination campaigns as a preemptive measure to prevent a cholera outbreak
Affiliations
- Attached to a charity organization whose main function is to provide support to financially challenged medical college students
Timeline
Consultant, to Provide Support for Developing School Immunization Strategy and Operational Guideline
World Health Organization (WHO)
04.2024 - 03.2025
Consultant for Revise and Update National Newborn Health Strategy (NNHS)
UNICEF, Bangladesh
01.2024 - 03.2024
Line Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, DGHS
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
12.2022 - 02.2023
Program Manager, National Newborn Health Program and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (NNHP and IMCI)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
12.2019 - 03.2023
Project Coordinator, Enteric and Respiratory Infectious Unit
icddr,b
11.2015 - 07.2019
Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
10.2015 - 11.2015
Consultant Stop Polio Program (STOP Team 41)
WHO
03.2013 - 06.2013
Consultant Stop Polio Program (STOP Team 40)
World Health Organization
08.2012 - 12.2012
Deputy Program Manager (EPI)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
10.2009 - 07.2012
Medical Officer
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
04.1994 - 10.2009
Master of Public Health (MPH) -
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM)
MBBS -
Mymensingh Medical College