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Professor Aziz Rahman

Associate Dean, Research and Professor, Public Health

Campus

Berwick Campus

Biography

Professor Rahman is an experienced academic, a medical doctor, and a public health professional. He has worked in public health research and teaching for over 20 years in Australian and international settings. He has an excellent track record of providing leadership in completing different research and community projects successfully focusing on various aspects of public health, securing funding, producing high-quality research publications, supervising higher degree research students, assisting in capacity building, and providing supportive supervision to the early/mid-career researchers and collaborating successfully with experienced researchers.

He has published more than 200 research papers in multidisciplinary journals with more than 125,000 citations. Due to his extraordinary track record of research citations, he has been ranked amongst the world’s top 2% scientists for the last five years (2020-24), ranking done by Elsevier BV and Stanford University, USA. He has contributed to generating over $13 million in funding in his professional career. He has extensive international research collaborations with over 25 countries and has successfully led several multi-country research projects with significant outputs.

Fields of research

  • Public health
  • Epidemiology

Available for

HDR Supervision

Professional Comment

HDR Examiner

  • Publications

Bridging the mental health gap: a cross-sectional study comparing the psychological distress and fear among migrants and non-migrants in Australia

Disease burden attributable to intimate partner violence against females and sexual violence against children in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Quantifying the fatal and non-fatal burden of disease associated with child growth failure, 2000-2023: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990-2023: a Global Burden of Disease Study

Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990-2023: a Global Burden of Disease study