Meerjady Sabrina Flora

Meerjady Sabrina Flora is a Bangladeshi physician, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health specialist. She is the additional director general of Directorate General of Health Services (planning and development).[1] Before, she headed the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR),[2] the apex center for conducting disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, disease control, epidemic prevention and research in Bangladesh.

Meerjady Sabrina Flora
মীরজাদী সেব্রিনা ফ্লোরা
Additional DG(P&D) of Directorate General of Health Services
Assumed office
2020
Preceded bySanya Tahmina Jhora
Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research
In office
2016–2020
Preceded byProf. Mahmudur Rahman
Succeeded byProf. Tahmina Shirin
Personal details
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materDhaka Medical College
University of Cambridge

She is a fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research. She is also the vice president of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes.[3]

Education and Career

Flora enrolled in Dhaka Medical College in 1983.[4] After obtaining her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree, she worked in several multinational institutions.[4] She received her master's degree in epidemiology from the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) and she received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge.[4]

Later, she worked at the Bangladesh Medical Research Council for three years as the Assistant Director. She joined NIPSOM afterwards as the Assistant Professor of the Department of Epidemiology and was promoted to a Professor gradually.[4] She was appointed as the Director of the IEDCR in 2016 and add'l director general of DGHS in 2020.[5]

Activities

As the Director of IEDCR she has implemented lots of surveillance activities, research, oversaw emergencies while ensuring sreening measures for ZIKA, MERS-CoV etc. at Dhaka Airport. Her team also dealt with the Chikungunya outbreak in 2017 and is currently overviewing the Death review committee for the recent Dengue outbreak.[4] During COVID-19 pandemic, until her promotion, Meerjady was the focal person of COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh as the head of IEDCR.[6]

References
  1. "Prof Sabrina Flora made new additional director general of DGHS". The Business Standard. 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  2. "IEDCR chief Meerjady Sabrina made DGHS additional director general". Dhaka Tribune. 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  3. "Executive Board, IANPHI". ianphi.org. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  4. "Women in Science". Ice Today. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  5. "Sabrina Flora made additional DG of DGHS". banglanews24.com. 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  6. "IEDCR director Meerjady promoted to health directorate ADG". New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh. Retrieved 2020-12-07.


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