DR. M TASDIK HASAN

DR. M TASDIK HASAN

about DR. M TASDIK HASAN

DR. M TASDIK HASAN

FACULTY PhD Researcher (Digital Mental Health), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Tasdik designs a digital mental health intervention to reduce depressive symptoms among adults attending primary health care facilities in Bangladesh as his PhD project at Monash University, Australia as a FIT Scholar. He received the Chancellors Award from His excellence, President of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh for academic excellence in Masters in Public Health course, Vice- Chancellors Gold medal and Summa cum laude from American International University-Bangladesh. He has a post graduate diploma in Disaster Management from University of Dhaka. Tasdik received the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to study MSc in Global Mental Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Kings College London. Tasdik received the New Voices in Global Health Award from the World Health Summit, Berlin, the Lancet Prize from the Lancet Psychiatry & University of Oxford, UK and Fukuoka Student Award from the World Social Science Forum, Japan. He published 95+ scientific papers including original articles, correspondences, case reports in reputed international journals and contributed in UNHCR commissioned report on Culture, Context & Mental Health of Rohingya Refugees. He received 10 research grants in between 2016- 2023 & coordinated 20+ projects nationally & internally since 2013. He has expertise in managing large scale clinical trial, formative research, mixed method research & medical leadership. He completed a consultancy lately in collaboration with Shuchona Foundation & Ministry of Health, Bangladesh and developed the National Mental Health Strategic Plan 2020- 2030. He also led the writing & editing of the action toolkit, Community Engagement during public health emergencies like COVID-19: An action framework and toolkit which has just been published by the National Community Engagement Task Force under Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Pillar with sponsorship from the USAID & IFRC. Some of his works are featured by BBC Bangladesh & received excellent appreciation. Tasdik was the Chair of Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) of Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) for the term 2019/20. Tasdik is supporting State University of Bangladesh as an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Jeeon Bangladesh Ltd. as the research lead. He completed an Honorary Research Associate position recently at the Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool and contributed in a project on mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda & Uganda. He accepted a faculty position in 2022 at the Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Academy (LISEAD) hosted by ESMT, Berlin.