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This Expert's name is Dr. Taufique Joarder, DrPH

This Expert's occupation is Health Policy and Systems Researcher
This Expert's location is Dhaka, Bangladesh
This Expert's nationality is Bangladeshi

Snapshot

Experience

10+ years

Languages

Bengali, English, French, Hindi

Countries of Work

Bangladesh, United States of America

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Health-related surveys
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Nutrition
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Media engagement
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health

Professional Experience

  • Health Workforce Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Dec 2020 - Present
    ● Provide technical inputs from the health workforce perspective on the Universal Health Coverage Compendium developed by the World Health Organization for the country health decisionmakers.
  • Associate Professor (Part time), Department of Public Health, North South University, Bangladesh

    Jan 2019 - Present
    ● Taking classes at postgraduate level, organizing and coordinating course modules, developing course materials
  • Research Director, USAID’s Multisectoral Nutrition Project, FHI 360, Bangladesh

    Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
    ● Direct and lead implementation of research projects thru approved work plans, budgets and ensure compliance with procedures and policies.
    ● Serve as primary point of contact on matters related to Implementation science research and/or monitoring and evaluation on the project
    ● Develop budgets for research activities and plan a course of action from initiation to completion of project
    ● Oversee a team of research, monitoring, and evaluation staff for the project and ensure clear roles and responsibilities and lines of communication are maintained amongst the team members
    ● Build capacity of staff, implementing partners, government counterparts, and other stakeholders

Education

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Graduated 2015
    Doctorate in Public Health
  • International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands

    Graduated 2010
    Diploma in International Health and Policy Evaluation
  • BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh

    Graduated 2008
    Master in Public Health
  • Dinajpur Medical College, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

    Graduated 2006
    Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
  • Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Graduated 2000
    Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Publications

  • Assessment of staffing needs for physicians and nurses at Upazila health complexes in Bangladesh

    Published Feb 2020 View publication
  • Retaining Doctors in Rural Bangladesh: A Policy Analysis

    Published Sep 2018 View publication
  • What constitutes responsiveness of physicians: A qualitative study in rural Bangladesh

    Published Dec 2017 View publication
  • ‘Who are more responsive? Mixed-methods comparison of public and private sector physicians

    Published Nov 2017 View publication
  • Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians

    Published Nov 2017 View publication

Affiliations

FHI 360
World Health Organization
BRAC University
North South University
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Health-related surveys
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Nutrition
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Media engagement
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health

Affiliations

FHI 360
World Health Organization
BRAC University
North South University
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health