Rajiv Chowdhury

Rajiv Chowdhury serves as the Chair and Professor of Global Health at Florida International University since December 2021 and is the Executive Director at the Centre for Non-Communicable Disease Research since 2014. Prior roles include Professor of Public Health (Adjunct) at the University of Bern from 2021 to December 2022, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Exeter for a brief period in 2021, and Associate Professor/Reader in Global Public Health at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2021, where additional roles included Scientific Director of the CAPABLE Global Health Program and Assistant Professor/Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology. Earlier experience encompasses work as an Epidemiologist focused on non-communicable diseases and as a Clinical Research Physician at icddr,b from 2002 to 2006. Academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Public Health, Global Health Epidemiology and an MPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MBBS from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.