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Professor Ahmed's career spans more than four decades across clinical medicine, research and academic leadership. He began as a clinician and clinical research fellow, including at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), before building a distinguished research portfolio at the BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, where he progressed from Medical Officer (Research) to Research Coordinator and Senior Research Coordinator between 1992 and 2013. His research expertise encompasses health systems and universal health coverage, human resources for health, health-seeking behaviour among disadvantaged populations, the informal healthcare sector, antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable diseases, malaria and other infectious threats, and governance and accountability in frontline health services.

Professor Ahmed is experienced in implementing programmes on operational research, research management and mentoring within multi-disciplinary and multi-ethnic environments, and has published extensively in peer-reviewed international health journals, alongside book chapters, monographs and working papers. He serves as a reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Social Science and Medicine; Health Policy and Planning; Health Policy; Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition; Tropical Medicine and International Health; Health Systems Policy and Research; BMC and BMJ journals; and Scientific Reports. He has travelled widely and presented papers at many international seminars, conferences and workshops.

His scholarship has earned significant international recognition. He was ranked #2 among Bangladeshi top scientists in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2024 (Research.com), ranked #13 among all scientists in Bangladesh by the AD Scientific Index Ranking 2023, and was included among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in the Stanford World Ranking of Scientists 2020 (subfield: Tropical Medicine).