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Md Baki Billah is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, affiliated with the Biostatistics Unit. He earned his PhD from Monash University, Master of Applied Statistics (MAS) from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and MSc as well as BSc (Hons) from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Before joining Monash, he held positions at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Industry Canada in Ottawa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Dhaka. At Monash, he contributes to teaching biostatistics courses, including PBH3011 Biostatistics for Health, PBH2002 Foundations of Biostatistics, and MPH5302 Biostatistics: Concepts and Applications, where his teaching has been recognized in the Golden Category from 2016 to 2019.

His research specializes in epidemiological modelling, institutional risk assessment and comparison, risk factor identification and prediction for cardiac surgery patients, time series forecasting, and shrinkage estimation, with recent emphasis on cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. He has published 91 peer-reviewed articles, including 'Risk prediction modelling of 30-day all-cause mortality following percutaneous coronary intervention in an Australian population: leveraging machine learning' (2026), 'The Association Between Health-Related Quality of Life Scores and Clinical Outcomes for People Living With Lung Cancer: An Australian Registry Cohort Study' (2026), 'Macrovascular complications in type 2 diabetes: a multiregional study in rural Bangladesh' (2026), 'Exploring under-five child malnutrition in Bangladesh: Analysis using the Extended Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (ECIEF)' (2025), 'Self-reported health complaints and healthcare-seeking behaviour among adult people in rural Bangladesh' (2025), 'Preoperative Variables of 30-Day Mortality in Adults Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review' (2024), and 'Case Fatality Rates for Patients with COVID-19 Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Meta-analysis' (2020). His scholarship has amassed 7,194 citations on Google Scholar, yielding an h-index of 46. Billah has received the Teaching Excellence Award (2016), Outstanding Teaching Contribution Award (2017), and Exceptional Achievement Award (2019) from Monash University, as well as the highest cited award from the European Society of Cardiology in October 2017.