K. M. Nafiz Ifteakhar Tulon

Nahid Akhter Jahan is a Health Economist with 26 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy. She joined the Institute as a Lecturer in 1999 and became a Professor of the Institute in 2019. She was the Director of the Institute of Health Economics from May 2013 to May 2016. She has been teaching Health Economics, Health Care Financing, Economic Evaluation of Health Care, and Management Decision Analysis at M. Phil, Post Graduate and Under Graduate levels, and in various training courses at the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka. Most of her research and consultancy relates to healthcare financing and costing of health services. Her fields of interest include economic evaluation of health care, budgeting, impact evaluation, health insurance, health systems, pro-poor strategies and quality of health care. She also served as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka.