Dr. Taufique Joarder

Dr. Taufique Joarder is an Associate Professor and the Lead of the Programme Evaluation Unit at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School under the National University of Singapore With a doctorate in public health in health policy and systems from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he has 16 years of experience in health policy and systems research, implementation research and evaluation. He has taught global health and research methods and published extensively, with 46 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books/chapters. His background includes a consultancy position at the World Health Organization headquarters, leadership at Family Health International (FHI 360), faculty roles at BRAC and North South University, and significant policy and media engagement. He is also an Editor of BMC Globalization and Health, an alumnus of Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV2010), and a board member of Health Systems Global. His areas of expertise include health and nutrition policy, human resources for health, implementation science, program evaluation, and psychometrics. He also serves as the Advisor of the Public Health Foundation, Bangladesh.