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Profulla C. Sarker
Dr. Profulla C. Sarker did his BA (Hon’s) and MA
in Social Work in 1971 and 1973, respectively,
from the Department of Social Work, University
of Rajshahi. He obtained an MPhil. In...vizualizați mai multeDr. Profulla C. Sarker did his BA (Hon’s) and MA
in Social Work in 1971 and 1973, respectively,
from the Department of Social Work, University
of Rajshahi. He obtained an MPhil. In Sociology
1978 from the Institute of Bangladesh Studies of
the same University. He did a PhD in Anthropology
from the Department of Anthropology, Centre for
Advanced Study, University of Ranchi, India, in
1986. Professor P. C. Sarker is the author of twenty
books and co-authored three books published in
Dhaka, New Delhi, Singapore, and Toronto University Press. To his credit,
he has more than one hundred scientific research papers published in
different national and international journals. He is the editor of three
journals and a member of the Editorial Board of six international journals.
He has supervised eighteen PhD and five MPhil. Dissertations.
Dr. Profulla C. Sarker is the vice chancellor of Sheikh Hasina University
of Science and Technology and Adviser to the Royal University of Dhaka.
Dr. Sarker was the former pro-vice chancellor of the European University
of Bangladesh and the vice chancellor of Prime University, Dhaka. He was
a professor and former chairman of the Department of Social Work at the
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Dr. Sarker was a professor of Social
Work and Social Administration, chairman of the Teachers’ Students’
Relation Committee, former director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural
Studies, and dean of the Division of Social Science and Humanities of
Hong Kong Baptist University-Beijing Normal University, UIC, China.
Moreover, he was a senior policy advisor for the National Food Security
and Surveillance Project of the Bangladesh Government and the European
Commission.
Professor Sarker served as a member of the Curriculum Board of the
Regional Center for Social Development, Latrobe University, Australia.
He was one of the organizers of the Fourteenth International Congress
of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Virginia, USA, in
1998. Professor P. C. Sarker was a member of the International Scientific
Committee of the International Seminars on Health. Mental Health and
Social Work was held in Melbourne in 1999 and Tempare, Finland, in 2001.
He was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Third
International Conference on Anthropology and the History of Health and
Diseases held in Genova, Italy, 2002. He received the Award on Social
Development from the International Consortium for Social Development
(ICSD), Australia, and the Sir Jagodish Chandra Basu Award on Education
and Research in 2018.
Dr. Nazir M Hossain is a trained clinician who
obtained his MBBS from Rajshahi Medical
College, Bangladesh, in 1997. Dr. Hossain traveled
to the United States of America for his higher
study in public health and secured a MPH degree
with an Outstanding Scholastic Achievement
Award at the Florida International University,
USA, in 2001. During his MPH study, he
extensively researched “Global Infant Mortality
Reasons and Solution” and worked with several government-funded
projects on health promotion. To learn more about research on public health
and its specialized units, in the year 2004, Dr. Hossain started his Master’s
in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University of Canada. (
Previously, it was Western Ontario University), in which he had done
community-based research on Prescription and Non-prescription
Medication Use in Pregnancy. In 2005, he was awarded the most prestigious
scholarship from York University of Canada to pursue his Doctoral degree
in Epidemiology. Dr. Nazir M Hossain completed his PhD in 2011 with a
thesis on “Immigrant Children’s Health in Canada.” Dr. Hossain obtained
education and experience in Health Services and Policy Research from the
Ontario Training Centre under The Ontario Provincial Ministry of Health
and Long-term Care. During his tenure as a researcher with various
institutes, he has authored several articles and published them in industryfamous
journals. He also co-authored a few government publications. Dr.
Hossain has presented several research works at national and international
conferences and delivered speeches in many institutes in the last two
decades.
Dr. Hossain’s expertise and relevance in the field of public health were
demonstrated when he became one of the crucial members of the 2009
“Swine Flu Pandemic Preparatory Task Force of Canada.” This role
showcased his ability to contribute to critical health initiatives and his
dedication to public health research. Dr. Nazir M Hossain was also one
of the researchers for the historical scenario-building project, “Evidencebased
Visions of the Future,” with the Public Health Agency of Canada
(PHAC) under the Ministry of Health, Canada. To extend his research in
public health during disaster situations, he started working with Canada’s
leading Disaster and emergency management Professionals. Later, He obtained a Master in Disaster and Emergency Management degree from
York University.
Dr. Hossain is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Global
Health at York University, Canada. He is also affiliated with Wilfred
Laurier University, Canada, and has academic relations with several other
post-secondary institutes in Canada. In addition, he has also been working
as a consultant to the private and public sectors for the last decade. He is
the reviewer for almost a dozen prestigious academic journals.
Dr. Nazir M Hossain and Dr. Profulla C. Sarker have a rich history of
collaborative research, with their current project holding significant
potential. Their initial work on Arsenic and its impact on reproductive
health was presented in Australia in 2001. Now, their research on Inbreeding
and Autism from the perspective of Bangladesh has the potential to make
a substantial contribution to the field, a prospect that is eagerly anticipated
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Consanguinity Inbreeding and Autism: An Anthropological Quest