Aminur Rahman

Director – International Drowning Research Centre-Bangladesh (IDRC-B) Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) House- B162, Road-23, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206 Bangladesh

Dr. Aminur Rahman has been working as Director, International Drowning Research Centre-Bangladesh which is part of the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) since 2005. He also acts as an Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Health, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) since 2017. Before joining CIPRB he worked as Assistant Professor in the Institute of Child and Mother Health (ICMH), Dhaka for eight years (1997 to 2005). Prior to that he was the Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, Dhaka Medical College for six years (1992 to 1997).

After graduating in medicine (MBBS) from Dhaka University in 1986, Dr. Rahman completed his Diploma in Community Medicine (DCM) in 1991 from Dhaka University. He completed Masters in Medical Education (M.Med.) in 1997 from Dundee University, UK. In 2010 he completed his PhD from the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has developed and implemented childhood drowning prevention program for rural Bangladesh as his PhD work.

Dr. Rahman was the co-principal investigator of the ground breaking research “Bangladesh Health and Injury Survey” which identified that drowning is the leading killer of children under 18 after infancy. He was also the co-principal investigator of the largest community based quasi-experimental study “PRESICE: Prevention of Child Injuries through Social-intervention and Education”. At the moment he is engaged in various child drowning prevention research activities. He has published more than 75 articles in peer reviewed journals. He co-authored WHO “World Report on Child Injury Prevention” and a drowning book “Drowning – Prevention, Rescue, Treatment” and acted as one of the editors of “Global Report on Drowning Prevention”. He is a reviewer of a number of reputed peer reviewed journals. Dr. Rahman is a member of the Drowning Research Committee of the International Lifesaving Federation (ILS) and Invited Honorary of International Drowning Researchers’ Alliance (IDRA). Recently in October 2017 in the World Conference of Drowning Prevention he has been awarded for his “Distinguished Service to Drowning Prevention” by the International Lifesaving Federation (ILS). In September 2018 Royal Life Saving Society Commonwealth appointed him as Drowning Prevention Portfolio Director. He is also engaged in teaching post graduate students as visiting lecture in different national universities.