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Scientist, Nutrition and Research Division in International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research Bangladesh
Head, Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) Unit in Dhaka Hospital (icddr,b)
Senior Faculty, Clinical Fellowship Program, icddr,b
Steering Committee Member of Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network since 2021

Dr. Lubaba Shahrin is a pediatrician and scientist at the icddr,b Dhaka Hospital, where she has been a vital part of the team since 2006. Her research career is dedicated to public health issues, with a focus on emerging infectious diseases, diarrheal illnesses, malnutrition, child tuberculosis (TB), sepsis, and acute respiratory infections. Her work is a mix of rigorous research and direct, hands-on intervention. She gained international experience through an HIV/ID clinical observership at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA, in 2014. Dr. Shahrin has also been deployed internationally, including a three-week mission to Ethiopia in 2017 to provide public health assistance.

Dr. Shahrin is a key figure in national crisis preparedness, leading Training of Trainers (TOT) programs for Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) and participating in numerous workshops across Bangladesh, including in Barisal, Jessore, and the Rohingya refugee camps. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her team, funded by Global Affairs Canada, trained over 750 healthcare workers nationwide in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and case management. From 2021 to 2025, she served as a Child TB trainer for USAID’s Alliance for Combating TB in Bangladesh (ACTB). She has authored over 60 journal publications and 15 conference proceedings and has been an invited speaker. She is a member of the Bangladesh Pediatric Association, the Commonwealth Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN), the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), and the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH).

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