☕️Dr Sayem Ahmed is working as a Research Fellow (Health Economist) at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicine Evaluation (CHEME), Bangor University, UK. He holds a PhD degree in health economics from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Before joining CHEME, Dr Ahmed worked at the University of Glasgow in UK, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Vietnam, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in UK and icddr,b in Bangladesh. He was involved as consultant with the World Health Organization, The World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank.
Ahmed’s research deals with estimating health economic burden and economic evaluation of new health technologies and interventions. In addition, Ahmed conducted research on health insurance, healthcare financing, universal health coverage, and health system efficiency in low- and middle-income countries. He teaches health economics and supervises MSc and PhD students.
Dr Ahmed is working on the RENAL-HF at CHEME, undertaking economic evaluations alongside clinical trials. This NIHR-funded program is developing and evaluating an artificial intelligence-based monitoring system that predicts the change in renal function in patients with heart failure. In this project, Dr Ahmed is conducting an economic evaluation using UK’s large health datasets (e.g., Clinical Practice Research Datalink -CPRD, Hospital Episode Statistics -HES) and health economics modelling approach. This study will generate much-needed evidence to reduce kidney injury risk among heart failure patients.
Research interest
- - Health and economic burden assessment
- - Cost-effectiveness analysis
- - Financing healthcare
- - Equity in health and healthcare
- - Economics of noncommunicable diseases and multimorbidities
- - Health economic modelling
- - Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and observational studies
Education
PhD in Health Economics, 2020
Karolinska Instutet, Stockholm, Sweden
MSc in Statistics, 2008
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Master’s in Health Economics, 2007
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BSc in Statistics, 2006
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Experiences
Responsibilities include:
- Working on research projects including economic evaluation and modelling at CHEME
- Provide training and mentorship for other researchers within the CHEME research centre
- Disseminate research findings within CHEME and academic conferences
- Scientific publication from health economics studies
- Lead on the health economic component in the development of grant applications for new projects involving the CHEME research centre
- Supervise MSc and PhD students
Responsibilities include:
- Working on 3 research projects including economic evaluations alongside clinical trials at HEHTA
- Supervising MSc and PhD students at HEHTA and University of Gothenburg
- Conducting health economics module for MSc program at HEHTA
- Disseminate research findings within HEHTA and academic conferences
- Scientific publication from health economics studies
Responsibilities include:
- I led the health economics team of Oxford University of Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), a large-scale clinical and public health research unit based in Vietnam with considerable support from the Wellcome Trust.
- Contributed to capacity development of the local staff members in health economics research
- Supervised PhD student, research staff and interns
- My research dealt with health economics research studies, including intervention costing, cost of illness analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and evaluation of health financing systems of Vietnam and other low- and middle-income countries.
- Added economic evaluation study in different clinical trials of Oxford University of Clinical Research Unit targeting infectious disease including HIV AIDS, hepatitis, dengue, Tuberculosis and malaria
Responsibilities include:
- I was responsible for conducting the health economics component of NIHR funded African Snakebite Research Group. I contributed to study design, data-capture tools development, and training of the local country teams (Kenya and Nigeria) on the study methodology including cost-analysis and financial protection.
- I visited the survey sites in Kenya and Nigeria regularly to monitor study activities and take measures to ensure the data quality, data management and analysis, disseminate the study findings to the policy level and publish them in scientific journals
- Contribute to designing teaching sessions and prepared materials on health economics for two masters programmes namely, Key themes in international health and health policy (TROP937) and Topics in global health (LIFE236)
- I was involved in student assessment and supervision of students for their thesis work
- Develop research concept notes for competitive grant application
Responsibilities include:
- Scientific proposal development
- Research project management
- Scientific analysis, and knowledge creation
- Scientific capacity building/training
- Disseminate study findings and translating research into policy
- Conduct sessions for health economics module of masters of public health programme at James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC university
- Student assessment and supervision for their thesis work
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