Juwel Rana, MSS, MPH (Dual), PhD(c)
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health,
McGill University, Canada
Research & Innovation Division,
South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST), Bangladesh
Mr. Juwel Rana is the Founder and serves as the Director of Research and Innovation at the South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST). His path began during undergraduate studies at the University of Dhaka, where he helped lay the groundwork for what became SAIST — initially taking shape as YRIDB and SAYRID on 15 July 2010, driven by a dedicated group of young researchers.
Education & training
He holds a dual Master of Public Health (MPH): 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 Erasmus Mundus scholarship. He also completed an MSS and BSS in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. Before joining the Department of Public Health at North South University, he worked as a J1 Research Scholar at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
Research
His scientific interests centre on developing or improving epidemiologic methods for risk prediction, repeated measures, multivariate analysis, causal mediation analysis, causal inference, mixture analysis, simulation studies, large data, and machine learning — applied to perinatal epidemiology (early childhood development, developmental delays and disorders, child mortality), maternal and reproductive health, non-communicable diseases, and environmental epidemiology.
He has published more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed journals including The Lancet, The Lancet Public Health, Neuroepidemiology, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Alzheimer & Dementia, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Reproductive Health, BMC Medicine, Frontiers in Medicine, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He serves as managing editor of the South Asian Journal of Social Sciences (SAJSS), regional editor of Global Dialogue, and on reviewer boards for journals in the field. He is an active member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.