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Ali Ahmed

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6934-8484
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20142025

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Dr Ali Ahmed is a biostatistician and environmental epidemiologist with nearly 20 years of professional experience. Currently serving as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the Rural Health Research Institute, he has a robust analytical background in public health, climate change, and environmental health research. He is skilled in managing health and demographic surveillance systems, national health surveys, and environmental and climatic databases. His current research focuses on assessing the burden of diseases in rural and remote Australia using National Health Data, with an emphasis on child and youth populations in these regions. Additionally, he examines the predictive accuracy of climatic models and develops models to understand the health impacts of environmental factors such as extreme weather events and climate variability, particularly on vulnerable populations.

His expertise covers longitudinal relational and large-scale data management, evaluation study and project data, data integration and analysis, data visualisation and dissemination. His current research focused on to analyse the burden, trends, and disparities in child and youth mental health illness in rural and remote Australia. In addition, his research interest areas are environmental impact and climate change, non-communicable diseases, and mortality. One of his future priority research areas is the impact of climate change on mental health.      

Dr Ahmed has a Master of Science (M.Sc.; thesis) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.; Honours) in Statistics from the Department of Statistics at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He accomplished the degree of Master of Public Health (MPH) from BRAC James P. Grand School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. His doctoral research has been published in leading peer reviewed journal. His professional public health research has been published in international journals, including International Journal of Epidemiology (IF: 9.685), Elementa Science of the Anthropocene (IF: 4.7 ), International journal of environmental research and public health (IF: 4.614), Regional Environmental Change (IF: 3.4 ), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (IF: 10.072), Scientific data (IF: 9.8), Global health action (IF: 2.996 ), Environmental Research Letters (5.8), Journal of Public Health (IF: 5.2), Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (IF: 4.7). Two of published research works reached Google Scholar (total 531, h-index 10, and i10-index 11)) citation over 100 and one of them got electronic and print media coverage.

Before joining the CSU Rural Health Research Institute, Dr Ahmed served as a Research Investigator at icddr,b, an international health research organisation located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Throughout this tenure he was involved in different multicounty collaborative project, where different emerging climate change issues were addressed. The main collaborators are University of Southampton (UK), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Jadavpur University (India), and Indiana University (USA).

Dr Ahmed is a lifetime member of Bangladesh Statistical Association, and a member of Statistical Society of Australia. He has participated various national and international seminars, trainings, workshops, conferences. He visited Kenya, Belgium, Russia, United Kingdom, Cambodia to attend scientific events.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Environmental Health, Doctor of Philosophy, Identification of Homogeneous Regions in Regional Flood Frequency Analysis, Western Sydney University

01 Jul 2021 → 10 Jul 2024

Award Date: 19 Feb 2024

Public Health, Masters of Public Health (MPH), Healthcare seeking behavior for diarrhea and pneumonia of under-5 children among recent migrants in Matlab, BRAC University

08 Jan 2013 → 14 Jan 2014

Award Date: 14 Jan 2014

Statistics, Masters of Science (Statistics), Factors Affecting Immunization in Matlab, Bangladesh, University of Chittagong

1999 → 2001

Award Date: 04 Aug 2001

Statistics, Bachelor of Science (Honours), University of Chittagong

1996 → 1999

Award Date: 31 Aug 1999

External positions

Causal Academic, Western Sydney University

01 Mar 2023 → 12 Jul 2024

Research Investigator, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

18 Feb 2018 → 28 Feb 2021

Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton

11 Apr 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

Senior Research Officer, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

18 Jan 2014 → 14 Feb 2018

Data Management Officer, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

01 Feb 2008 → 31 Dec 2013

Senior Research Assistant, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

11 Sept 2005 → 31 Jan 2008

Field Research Supervisor, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

24 Feb 2004 → 31 May 2005

Senior Research Assistant, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

01 Sept 2001 → 31 Aug 2003

Subject keywords

  • Public Health
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Health
  • Demography and Mortality
  • Flood

Registered Supervisor

  • Yes

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  • Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Feigin, V. L., Vos, T., Nair, B. S., Hay, S. I., Abate, Y. H., Abd Al Magied, A. H. A., Abd ElHafeez, S., Abdelkader, A., Abdollahifar, M.-A., Abdullahi, A., Aboagye, R. G., Abreu, L. G., Abu Rumeileh, S., Abualruz, H., Aburuz, S., Abu-Zaid, A., Addo, I. Y., Adedoyin, R. A., Adepoju, A. V. & Afzal, M. S. & 480 others, Afzal, S., Ahmad, A., Ahmad, S., Ahmad, T., Ahmadi, A., Ahmadzade, A. M., Ahmed, A., Ahmed, H., Ahmed, M. S., Ahmed, M. B., Al Awaidy, S., Al Omari, O., Al-Ajlouni, Y., Albashtawy, M., Al-Fatly, B., Algammal, A. M., Ali, A., Ali, M. U., Ali, S. S., Ali, W., Alif, S. M., Almazan, J. U., Alshahrani, N. Z., Altaf, A., Al-Wardat, M., Al-Worafi, Y. M., Aly, H., Alzoubi, K. H., Amiri, S., Ancuceanu, R., Angappan, D., Ansari, M. T., Anvari, S., Anyasodor, A. E., Arabloo, J., Arafat, M., Aravkin, A. Y., Aregawi, B. B., Aremu, A., Atout, M. M. W., Atreya, A., Aujayeb, A., Aychiluhm, S. B., Aziz, S., Azzam, A. Y., Badiye, A. D., Bai, R., Baig, A. A., Bakkannavar, S. M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Banerjee, I., Bardhan, M., Barker-Collo, S. L., Barrow, A., Basharat, Z., Bashiri, A., Basiru, A., Bastan, M.-M., Batchu, S., Behnam, B., Bejarano Ramirez, D. F., Bemanalizadeh, M., Beyene, K. A., Bhagat, D. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhaskar, S., Bhat, A. N., Bhatti, G. K., Bhatti, J. S., Bhuiyan, M. A., Bhuyan, S. S., Bilgin, C., Bisulli, F., Boloor, A., Boppana, S. H., Bouaoud, S., Bustanji, Y., Çakmak Barsbay, M., Carvalho, F., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Chandika, R. M., Chattu, V. K., Chaudhary, A. A., Ching, P. R., Chopra, H., Chu, D.-T., Chu, H., Cortese, S., Cortesi, P. A., Cruz-Martins, N., Dadras, O., Dai, X., D'Amico, E., Dandona, L., Dandona, R., Darcho, S. D., Darwish, A. H., Dhane, A. S., Dhulipala, V. R., Diaz, M. J., Do, T. C., Dohare, S., Doshi, O. P., Dsouza, H. L., Dziedzic, A. M., Ebrahimi, A., Eissazade, N., Ekholuenetale, M., El Arab, R. A., El Bayoumy, I. F., El Meligy, O. A. A., Elhabashy, H. R., Elhadi, M., Eltaha, C., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Fahim, A., Fares, J., Farjoud Kouhanjani, M., Fasanmi, A. O., Fatehizadeh, A., Fazeli, P., Fazylov, T., Fekadu, G., Fereshtehnejad, S.-M., Ferrara, P., Ferreira, N., Fetensa, G., Fischer, F., Foschi, M., Gadanya, M. A., Galali, Y., Ganesan, B., Gao, X., Garg, R. K., Gebregergis, M. W., Ghadirian, F., Ghamari, S.-H., Gilani, J. A., Girmay, A. A., Giussani, G., Gnedovskaya, E. V., Golechha, M., Gouravani, M., Grada, A., Guan, S.-Y., Gupta, S., Haghani Dogahe, M., Haj-Mirzaian, A., Hamdy, N. M., Harlianto, N. I., Hasaballah, A. I., Hasani, H., Hassan, A., Hassan, I. I., Hassan Zadeh Tabatabaei, M. S., Hegazi, O. E., Heidari, G., Hemmati, M., Hezam, K., Hoan, N. Q., Holla, R., Hosseinzadeh, M., Huang, J., Huynh, H.-H., Hwang, B.-F., Ibitoye, S. E., Ikiroma, A., Ilesanmi, O. S., Ilic, I. M., Ilic, M. D., Imam, M. T., Immurana, M., Inok, A., Islam, M. R., Iwu, C. D., Jacob, L., Jafarzadeh, A., Jahrami, H., Jairoun, A. A., Jakovljevic, M., Jalilzadeh Yengejeh, R., Jamora, R. D. G., Jawaid, T., Jayapal, S. K., Ji, Z., Jonas, J. B., Joseph, N., Joshua, C. E., Kabir, Z., Kalani, R., Kamireddy, A., Kanmodi, K. K., Kapoor, N., Kashoo, F. Z., Kaur, H., Kazemi, F., Khajuria, H., Khalilian, A., Khan, M., Khatatbeh, H., Khayat Kashani, H. R., Kheirallah, K. A., Khidri, F. F., Khormali, M., Khosla, A. A., Khubchandani, J., Kim, Y. S., Kim, Y. S., Kimokoti, R. W., Koh, H. Y., Kolahi, A.-A., Kostev, K., Krishan, K., Krishnamoorthy, V., Kruja, J., Kuddus, M., Kulimbet, M., Kumar, G. A., Kumar, M., Kundu, S., Kytö, V., Lahariya, C., Lal, D. K., Lám, J., Landires, I., Lanfranchi, F., Le, N. H. H., Lee, S. W., Ligade, V. S., Lim, S. S., Linehan, C., Liu, X., López-Gil, J. F., Lucchetti, G., Majeed, A., Malhotra, K., Malik, A. A., Mansouri, V., Marateb, H. R., Martorell, M., Marzo, R. R., Mathangasinghe, Y., Mediratta, R. P., Mehndiratta, M. M., Meles, H. N., Melese, E. B., Mensah, G. A., Meretoja, A., Mestrovic, T., Mettananda, S., Minervini, G., Mirfakhraie, R., Mirza, M., Misganaw, A., Misra, A. K., Mohamed, A. Z., Mohamed, N. S., Mohammadian-Hafshejani, A., Mohammadzadeh, I., Mohan, S., Mokdad, A. H., Monasta, L., Moodi Ghalibaf, A., Moradi, M., Motappa, R., Muccioli, L., Mulita, F., Munkhsaikhan, Y., Murillo-Zamora, E., Muthu, S., Nabavi, A., Naik, G. R., Nargus, S., Nashwan, A. J., Natto, Z. S., Nauman, J., Naveed, M., Nayak, B. P., Nazri-Panjaki, A., Nepal, G., Netsere, H. B., Nguyen, H. T. H., Niazi, R. K., Nikoobar, A., Nozari, M., Nri-Ezedi, C. A., Nwatah, V. E., Nzoputam, O. J., Oancea, B., Olagunju, A. T., Olalusi, O. V., Omar Bali, A., Ordak, M., Orish, V. N., Ortiz-Prado, E., Otstavnov, N., Ouyahia, A., Owolabi, M. O., Padron-Monedero, A., Padubidri, J. R., Panda, S. K., Panda-Jonas, S., Pande Katare, D., Pandey, A., Panos, L. D., Pantazopoulos, I., Papadopoulou, P., Parekh, U., Parikh, R. R., Parsons, N., Passera, R., Patil, S., Pawar, S., Pazoki Toroudi, H., Pensato, U., Peprah, P., Peres, M. F. P., Perna, S., Pham, H. N., Piracha, Z. Z., Piradov, M. A., Poddighe, D., Poluru, R., Pour-Rashidi, A., Pradhan, J., Prasad, M., Pribadi, D. R. A., Puvvula, J., Qasim, N. H., Radhakrishnan, V., Raghav, P., Rahim, F., Rahman, M., Rahmani, A. M., Rahmanian, M., Raja, A., Rajabpour Sanati, A., Rajpoot, P. L., Ramadan, M. M., Ramasamy, S. K., Rancic, N., Rao, S. J., Rashidi, M.-M., Rathish, D., Rawaf, S., Reddy, M. M. R. K., Redwan, E. M. M. M., Rezaeian, M., Rhee, T. G., Riaz, M., Rodriguez, J. A. B., Roever, L., Romozzi, M., Rony, M. K. K., Root, K. T., Rout, H. S., Saad, A. M. A., Sabet, C. J., Saddik, B. A., Sadeghian, R., Saeb, M. R., Saeed, U., Saheb Sharif-Askari, F., Saheb Sharif-Askari, N., Sahebkar, A., Saif, Z., Sajadi, S. M., Salami, A. A., Salimi, S., Samodra, Y. L., Samy, A. M., Sarode, G. S., Sarode, S. C., Sathian, B., Sathyanarayan, A., Satpathy, M., Sawhney, M., Selvaraj, S., Semreen, M. H., Sendekie, A. K., Senthilkumaran, S., Sethi, Y., Seylani, A., Shahbandi, A., Shahid, S., Shaikh, M. A., Shaikh, S. Z., Shamim, M. A., Shams-Beyranvand, M., Shamsutdinova, A., Sharifan, A., Sharifi Rad, J., Sharma, A., Sharma, V., Shayan, M., Sheikh, Z. B., Shetty, M., Shetty, P. H., Shetty, P. K., Shittu, A., Shlobin, N. A., Shorofi, S. A., Shrestha, S., Siddig, E. E., Singh, G., Singh, H., Singh, J. A., Singh, P., Singh, S., Solanki, S., Soraneh, S., Stanikzai, M. H., Sullman, M. J. M., Sunnerhagen, K. S., Suresh, V., Swain, C. K., Szarpak, L., Tabaee Damavandi, P., Tabarés-Seisdedos, R., Tabche, C., Taiba, J., Tanwar, M., Tareke, M., Temsah, M.-H., Temsah, R. M. H., Teramoto, M., Thangaraju, P., Thirunavukkarasu, S., Ticoalu, J. H. V., Tiruye, T. Y., Tiwari, K., Tiwari, V. K., Tovani-Palone, M. R., Tran, T. H., Tran Minh Duc, N., Tripathi, M., Tromans, S. J., Tsai, D.-T., Tsatsakis, A., Tsermpini, E. E., Tumurkhuu, M., Udoakang, A. J., Ullah, S., Umair, M., Unnikrishnan, B., Urso, D., Usman, J. S., Vaithinathan, A. G., Vakilian, A., Varma, R. P., Venketasubramanian, N., Villafañe, J. H., Vinayak, M., Vinueza Veloz, A. F., Walde, M. T., Wang, S., Wang, Y., Waris, A., Wickramasinghe, N. D., Winkler, A. S., Yesuf, S. A., Yiğit, A., Yiğit, V., Yilma, M. T., Yismaw, Y. E., Yon, D. K., Yonemoto, N., Yu, C., Zandi, M., Zanghì, A., Zeariya, M. G. M., Zhao, Z., Zhong, C. C., Zielińska, M., Zitoun, O. A., Zyoud, S. H., Rautalin, I., Newton, C. R. J., Wiebe, S. & Murray, C. J. L., Mar 2025, In: The Lancet Public Health. 10, 3, p. e203-e227

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  • Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    GBD 2021 Global Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Risk Factors Collaborators, Rautalin, I., Volovici, V., Stark, B. A., Johnson, C. O., Kaprio, J., Korja, M., Krishnamurthi, R. V., Nair, B. S., Ranta, A., Rinkel, G. J. E., Vergouwen, M. D. I., Abate, Y. H., Abbastabar, H., Abd-Allah, F., Abdelkader, A., Abdi, P., Abdollahi, A., Abdullahi, A. & Abiodun, O. O. & 231 others, Aboagye, R. G., Abouzid, M., Abtahi, D., Abu Rumeileh, S., Abualhasan, A., Abualruz, H., Abukhadijah, H. J., Abu-Zaid, A., Adamu, L. H., Addo, I. Y., Adedoyin, R. A., Adegboye, O. A., Adra, S., Adzigbli, L. A., Agyemang-Duah, W., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, A., Ahmad, D., Ahmadzade, A. M., Ahmed, A., Ahmed, H., Ahmed, S. A., Aji, B., Akkaif, M. A., Al-Ajlouni, Y., Al-Aly, Z., Albashtawy, M., Ali, M. U., Alif, S. M., Alimohamadi, Y., Aljunid, S. M., Alomari, M. A., Alrawashdeh, A., Alsabri, M. A., Salman, R.A.-S., Altaf, A., Al-Tammemi, A. B., Alvis-Guzman, N., Alwafi, H., Al-Wardat, M., Al-Worafi, Y. M., Aly, H., Alyahya, M. S. I., Alzoubi, K. H., Amani, R., Amin, T. T., Amindarolzarbi, A., Amusa, G. A., Anderlini, D., Angappan, D., Anil, A., Anuoluwa, B. S., Anwar, S., Anyasodor, A. E., Apostol, G. L. C., Arabloo, J., Areda, D., Ärnlöv, J., Artamonov, A. A., Artanti, K. D., Arumugam, A., Aryan, Z., Asghari-Jafarabadi, M., Ashemo, M. Y., Ashraf, T., Athar, M., Athari, S. S., Aujayeb, A., Awotidebe, A. W., Azadnajafabad, S., Aziz, S., Azzam, A. Y., Babu, G. R., Bagheri, N., Bahrami Taghanaki, P., Bahramian, S., Bai, R., Baig, A. A., Bako, A. T., Baltatu, O. C., Bam, K., Banach, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Banik, B., Bardhan, M., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Barua, L., Bastan, M.-M., Basu, S., Bell, S. L., Bensenor, I. M., Berhie, A. Y., Beyene, K. A., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhaskar, S., Bhat, A. N., Bhat, V., Bhatti, G. K., Bhatti, J. S., Bijani, A., Bikbov, B., Birhan, M. M., Birhanu, M. M., Bitra, V. R., Boloor, A., Borhany, H., Breitner, S., Brenner, H., Bugiardini, R., Bulamu, N. B., Butt, Z. A., Cabral, L. S., Caetano Dos Santos, F. L., Calina, D., Cámera, L. A., Campos, L. A., Campos-Nonato, I., Capodici, A., Carvalho, F., Castañeda-Orjuela, C. A., Catapano, A. L., Cegolon, L., Chadwick, J., Chakraborty, C., Chakraborty, P. A., Chakraborty, S., Chandika, R. M., Chanie, G. S., Chattu, V. K., Chaudhary, A. A., Chi, G., Chichagi, F., Ching, P. R., Chopra, H., Choudhari, S. G., Chowdhury, E. K., Chu, D.-T., Chung, S.-C., Columbus, A., Criqui, M. H., da Silva, A. G., Dabbagh Ohadi, M. A., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Dalal, K., Dalli, L. L., D'Amico, E., Dashti, M., Davletov, K., De la Cruz-Góngora, V., Debopadhaya, S., Delgado-Enciso, I., Derviševic, E., Devanbu, V. G. C., Dewan, S. M. R., Dhane, A. S., Dibas, M., Do, T. C., Do, T. H. P., Dohare, S., Doheim, M. F., Dokova, K. G., Dongarwar, D., D'Oria, M., Doshi, O. P., Doshi, R. P., Dowou, R. K., Dsouza, H. L., Dutta, S., Dziedzic, A. M., E'mar, A. R., Edvardsson, D., Efendi, D., Efendi, F., El Nahas, N., Elgendy, I. Y., Elhadi, M., Eltaha, C., Eltahir, M. E., Emeto, T. I., Fabin, N., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Fahim, A., Fakhradiyev, I. R., Fares, J., Faris, P. S., Fauk, N. K., Fazylov, T., Fekadu, G., Ferreira, N., Fetensa, G., Fischer, F., Foschi, M., Fridayani, N. K. Y., Gaipov, A., Gajjar, A. A., Gandhi, A. P., Ganesan, B., Garg, R. K., Gebregergis, M. W., Gebrehiwot, M., Gebremeskel, T. G., Getie, M., Ghadimi, D. J., Ghadirian, F., Ghahramani, S., Ghasemzadeh, A., Ghazy, R. M., Gholamalizadeh, M., Ghozy, S., Gil, A. U., Gilani, J. A., Gnedovskaya, E. V., Goleij, P., Goulart, A. C., Goulart, B. N. G., Guan, S.-Y., Gupta, S., Habibzadeh, F., Hadei, M., Hadi, N. R., Hamidi, S., Islam, M. R., Khan, M. J., Lim, S. S., Moni, M. A., Osuagwu, U. L., Ross, A. G. & Sun, J., 23 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JAMA Neurology.

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  • Adult mortality trends in Matlab, Bangladesh: An analysis of cause-specific risks

    Ahmed, A., Al Nahian, M., Rahman, M. M., Alam, N., Nahar, Q., Streatfield, P. K., Haider, M. M. & Rahman, M., Mar 2024, In: BMJ Open. 13, 9, p. 1-12 12 p., e065146.

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  • Searching for homogeneous regions in regional flood frequency analysis for Southeast Australia

    Ahmed, A., Khan, Z. & Rahman, A., Jun 2024, In: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 53, p. 1-22 22 p., 101782.

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  • Water savings in places of worship: A case study for St Mary's Mosque in Australia

    Hurayra, M. A., Ahmed, A., Alim, M. A. & Rahman, A., 01 Aug 2024, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 16, 15, p. 1-22 22 p., 6568.

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