Dr. Zahidul Quayyum is a Professor and Director Research, and Co-Director Centre of Excellence for Urban Equity and Health at the BRAC JPG School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH) at BRAC University. He is a health economist and a public health researcher and has more than 27 years of experiences of conducting health economics and health systems research. He has been also involved in conducting systematic review of economic evaluation, within trial national and multi-country economic evaluation, decision modelling and health technology assessment for the NIHR (UK) and EU funded projects in the UK. He is currently leading five (one funded by FCDO and one by Wellcome Trust) research projects as Principal Investigator and three as Co-Investigator at BRAC JPGSPH and has been involved in evaluating health care interventions on displaced population, assessing the impact of environment, housing and neighborhood and co-producing interventions for urban health and designing urban health system interventions and leading the work programme on capacity strengthening for researchers and health systems actors. His research work focuses on maternal and child health, social determinants of health, sexual and reproductive health, climate and health, and health of the displaced and marginalized population. He has authored more than 40 publications, many published in reputed journals.