Speakers

Professor Dr. Tahmina Shirin is medical graduate, obtained M. Phil in Virology and PhD in Immunology. She has expertise in the field of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and host innate immune responses against pathogens. She is working as Director in Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research (IEDCR), a mandated institute of the Bangladesh Government for disease surveillance, disease outbreak investigation and response, public health work force development and research. She is the focal person for National Influenza Center (NIC). She is the course director, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Bangladesh; Chair of the Coordination Committee for One Health Secretariat in Bangladesh and Co- Chair of Asia Regional Network, IANPHI.