Dr. Md Mahbubur Rahman is a Project Coordinator and leading Environmental Interventions Unit, Infectious Diseases Division at icddr, b. He has extensive experience working with governmental and non-governmental public health organisations. He completed an MBBS (1998) from Rajshahi Medical College, Bangladesh, Masters of Population Sciences (2011) from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, and Masters of Public Health (2007) from an affiliated institution of the University of Newcastle. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has received a number of research awards. His research interests include water sanitation hygiene, heavy metals, water salinity, climate adaptive interventions. He is a member of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Planetary Health Alliance, Bangladesh Medical association, Public Health Association of Bangladesh, One Health Initiative, and Environmental Health and Interventions Working Group.