Nusrat Homaira, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Dr Nusrat Homaira is a Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia and a Senior Lecturer- Epidemiology with the Discipline of Paediatrics, School of Women’s and Children’s Health at UNSW Sydney. She also works as a Research Scientist (Hon.) at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Nusrat is a respiratory epidemiologist with 14 years working experience in the field of epidemiological and population health research in both low- and high-income countries. She has obtained her MBBS from Dhaka University, MPH from James P. Grant School of Public Health and PhD from UNSW, Sydney. Prior to coming to UNSW, Sydney she has worked as an Assistant Scientist, Centers for Communicable Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). She has extensive expertise in wide range of research methodologies from outbreak investigations, designing and establishing surveillance, application and analysis of record-linked administrative health data ("big data"); to the design and conduct of randomised controlled trials, clinical surveys, diagnostic studies and longitudinal studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Her current work centres around understanding and modifying the intersection between early childhood respiratory infections and chronic respiratory conditions in high-risk populations through epidemiological and health system research. She is also keenly interested in research that influence health services to better address social inequalities and inadequate access to care.