Rate My Professor Bayzidur Rahman

Dr. Md Bayzidur Rahman serves as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research within the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He earned his PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Sydney, focusing on environmental exposures and cancer risk. Before joining Macquarie, Rahman was a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia. He also contributed as a data analyst in the NSW Ministry of Health's COVID-19 response team and worked as a consultant biostatistician for institutions such as St Vincent’s Hospital, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He holds adjunct appointments as Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney and Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Rahman's research specializes in biostatistics and environmental epidemiology, with key interests in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, multilevel and longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, exposure assessment to disinfection by-products in water, spatial epidemiology, and designs for complex epidemiological studies including cluster randomized trials. He has taught and convened postgraduate courses in biostatistics and epidemiology at UNSW Sydney and the University of Newcastle, developed curricula for such courses at UNSW and the University of Notre Dame Australia, and conducted short courses at organizations in Bangladesh including BRAC, UChicago Research Bangladesh, and icddr,b. Rahman has supervised seven PhD/DrPH students, 23 masters students, and two honours students to completion. His publication record exceeds 80 outputs, including highly influential works such as "A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers" (2015), "Disinfection by-products in drinking water and colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis" (2010), "Colon and rectal cancer incidence and water trihalomethane concentrations in New South Wales, Australia" (2014), "Association between socioeconomic deprivation and bone health status in the UK biobank cohort participants" (2024), and "High-risk medicines and technology-related prescribing errors in 2 pediatric hospitals" (2026). As an associate investigator, he contributes to projects on skin health, arsenic exposure and chronic diseases, neglected tropical diseases, occupational lead exposure, and climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, collaborating with entities like Cancer Council NSW and icddr,b.