Mr. Juwel Rana

Mr. Juwel Rana joined the Department of Public Health as a Lecturer in December 2019. He pursued a dual Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in European Master of Public Health (EMPH) from the University of Sheffield, UK, and EMPH in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from the EHESP School of Public Health, France, under the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He also completed an MSS and BSS in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before joining the Department of Public Health at North South University, Mr. Juwel worked as Research Scholar at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Amherst, USA. His main scientific interests are to develop or improve epidemiologic methods related to risk prediction, repeated measures, multivariate analysis, causal mediation analysis, causal inference, mixture analysis, simulation study, big data, and application of machine learning approaches. He applies these techniques in perinatal epidemiology (early childhood development, developmental delays, and disorders, child mortality), maternal and reproductive health, non-communicable diseases, and environmental epidemiology.