Our Staff

Professor Quayyum has worked as a health economist on numerous national and international projects, undertaking economic evaluation of interventions and economic analysis of policy changes for improving maternal and child health, addressing non-communicable diseases, combating infectious diseases, and strengthening health systems. His methodological expertise includes systematic reviews, including reviews of economic evaluation, within-trial national and multi-country economic evaluation, decision modelling, and health technology assessment, including for NIHR (UK) and EU-funded projects. His research focuses on maternal and child health, infectious disease, the allocation of resources, social determinants of health, sexual and reproductive health, climate and health, non-communicable diseases, and the health of displaced and marginalised populations.

Over a career spanning Bangladesh and the United Kingdom, Professor Quayyum has held academic and research posts at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Glasgow, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of York, as well as at icddr,b and the Institute of Health Economics at the University of Dhaka. He is currently involved in eleven research projects at BRAC JPGSPH, including projects funded by FCDO, IDRC and NIHR: serving as Principal Investigator on three and Co-Investigator on eight. His current work includes evaluating health care interventions, assessing economic benefits and equity in health, examining the impact of environment, climate change, housing and neighbourhood on population-level health outcomes, and co-producing interventions through public engagement to improve urban health (Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities). He has also led work programmes on capacity strengthening for researchers and health systems actors (CHORUS Urban Health) across two South Asian countries.

Professor Quayyum is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and recently served as co-supervisor for a PhD on developing an urban primary healthcare model for strengthening healthcare service delivery for the poor in urban settings of Bangladesh. He has authored more than 40 publications, many in highly regarded international journals, and contributes to the School as a member of the Academic Committee of the MPH programme and the Senior Management Committee, and as Course Lead for the Health Economics and Health Care Financing module.