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Research Manager

Syed Riaz Mahmud

About

  • Research Management
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Climate Change & Health
  • Evidence-based Policy

Dedicated Research Manager with over 6.5 years of progressive experience in research management, impact evaluation, field research, and development projects at MOMODa Foundation in Bangladesh. My work involves managing and contributing to research and impact evaluation initiatives with international research institutions and universities, including J-PAL (MIT), the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Stanford University, and Japanese universities such as the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Hamamatsu University, and GRIPS/JSPS. My primary academic and professional interests span public health and global health, climate change and health, environmental health and planetary health, maternal and child health, climate-related health risks and behavioral interventions, impact evaluation and randomized controlled trials (RCTs), health systems and universal health coverage, and data-driven development and evidence-based policy.

Public Health and Development Research | Climate Change & Health | Impact Evaluation | Evidence-based Policy

Skills

  • Research Management
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
  • Survey Research
  • STATA
  • R
  • SurveyCTO
  • KoboToolbox
  • Data Quality Assurance
  • Applied Statistics
  • Systematic Review
  • Meta-analysis
  • Rayyan
  • Geospatial Survey Mapping
  • Field Operations Management
  • Research Coordination

Languages

  • Professional Research & Technical Languages

Experience

  • MOMODa Foundation

    Research Manager · Bangladesh

    Details

    Over 6.5 years of progressive experience

    • Manage and contribute to research and impact evaluation projects involving international research institutions and universities, including J-PAL (MIT), the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Stanford University, and Japanese universities (University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Hamamatsu University, GRIPS/JSPS).
    • Perform research project management, field operations, survey design and implementation, data quality assurance, research coordination, and impact evaluation.
    • Contribute to research field operations, household survey implementation, coordination with field teams, data quality assurance, and research implementation for projects such as Behavioral Interventions to Address Climate Change-Induced Salinization (Salinity CCIS).

Education

  • National University

    Master of Science in Statistics

  • National University

    Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Key Research Project

Behavioral Interventions to Address Climate Change-Induced Salinization (Salinity CCIS)

Climate Change & Health · Impact Evaluation · Field Operations

Examines climate change-induced salinization and its implications for vulnerable communities in coastal Bangladesh, with a focus on drinking-water salinity and health-related outcomes.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications (2022)

Journal of Global Health · BMC Medicine

Co-authored two peer-reviewed publications in 2022 featured in the Journal of Global Health and BMC Medicine.