Dr Farhana Haque
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
LONDON
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
The goal of my career is to reduce the risk and impact of infectious diseases and climate change and ensure health and wellbeing for all irrespective of nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, and social, sexual, religious orientation. I have a broad background in medical epidemiology, with expertise in intervention implementation and evaluation. Prior to joining LSHTM/UK-PHRST as an Assistant Professor, I was a PhD researcher at the Institute for Global Health (IGH), UCL. Before joining UCL, I was an Associate Scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). During 2010-2015, I was seconded from icddr,b to the national mandated institute for outbreak investigation and response, IEDCR of the Government of Bangladesh for 5 years.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I have more than 14 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience on a full-time and part-time capacity in various subjects related to public health including research methods, clinical epidemiology, public policy and applied epidemiology. I am a co-module organiser for the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions module at LSHTM. I also teach at the DL Epidemiology and Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies modules. I have mentored and supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate students successfully. In my teaching role, I aim to improve undergraduate and postgraduate education using participatory research to incorporate stakeholders’ perspectives based on utilizing the principles of appropriate learning theories.
Research
My research aims to evaluate public health interventions and determine the aetiology, transmission routes and dynamics of infectious diseases and to recommend control and preventive measures with special focus on resource-constrained and humanitarian emergency settings. In addition, I intend to determine the human health impacts of climate variability and long-term changes in the global climate and devise community-based adaptation measures, enhance the evidence-base to transform the health systems in LMICs including Bangladesh.
Research Area
Epidemiology
Field epidemiology
Implementation science
Evaluation
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious diseases
Country
Kenya
Uganda
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Namibia
South Africa
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Middle East & North Africa (developing only)
Selected Publications
Heat Index: An Alternative Indicator for Measuring the Impacts of Meteorological Factors on Diarrhoea in the Climate Change Era: A Time Series Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh
2024
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in humans in Bangladesh.
2024
Frontiers in public health
Impacts of climate change on diarrhoeal disease hospitalisations: How does the global warming targets of 1.5-2°C affect Dhaka, Bangladesh?
2024
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Effects of diurnal temperature range on diarrhea in the subtropical megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2024
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
