Ausraful Islam
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Biography
Ausraful Islam is a veterinarian by training. He has completed his DVM and MS from Bangladesh Agricultural University and MPH from American International University-Bangladesh. He joined icddr,b during 2009. He is involved in different research projects focused on various emerging diseases like Nipah and avian influenza. He has several years of working experience with wild animals. He is leading a project funded by DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) to look for the Nipah virus among bats of Bangladesh. He has published his work in different national and international journals.