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K M Shahunja

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland

I am a physician and clinical researcher. I have completed my MBBS degree from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh and Post Graduate Diploma in Paediatrics and Child Health from Imperial College London, UK. Before joining to UQ, I worked for about nine years at an international research organization (www.icddrb.org) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My main interest in research includes child respiratory and alimentary diseases and malnutrition.

With a PhD scholarship at the University of Queensland, I am currently doing research to see the effects of family, neighbourhood and psychosocial environmental changes on asthma among children in children.

I have also joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland from July 2023.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD candidate, The University of Queensland
  • 2020–2021
    Research assistant, The University of Queensland
  • 2016–2019
    Assistant scientist, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
  • 2011–2015
    Medical Officer (Clinical Research), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)

Education

  • 2017 
    Imperial College London, Paediatrics & Child Health
  • 2004 
    Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Medicine

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    Acceptability and Effectiveness of Bubble CPAP in Bangladesh
    Role:
    Co-investigator
    Funding Source:
    The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE)
  • 2015
    RCT on topical emollient therapy in severe acute malnourished children
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    GlaxoSmithKline, UK; Stanford University, USA

Professional Memberships

  • Member of European Society of Paediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID)
  • Member of American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
  • Member of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
  • Member of The Public Health Association Australia