Global Health Consultant | Field Epidemiologist

Global health strategy, surveillance, and implementation.

About Global Health Consulting

About

Global Health Implementation Experiences

Mohammad Gazi Shah Alam conducting fieldwork in a community setting
Mohammad Gazi Shah Alam

I am a global public health epidemiologist specializing in epidemiological surveillance, epidemic response, pharmacovigilance, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health frameworks.

Systems

Public health leadership

Public health roles in Bangladesh spanning epidemiology, planning, policy, budgeting, and disease control.

Platforms

Research and analytics

Project operations across the Safety Platform for Emergency Vaccines, the Background Rates of Adverse Events for Vaccine Evaluation in Africa, the Background Incidence Rates in Africa, and the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance encompass systematic reviews, stakeholder mapping, data analysis, scientific reporting, and dashboard development.

Engagement

International collaboration

Supported vaccine safety training with Africa CDC, CEPI, and SPEAC for participants from 22 African countries.

Services

Proficiency

Outbreak investigation and surveillance strengthening

Epidemiological surveillance design and implementation, epidemic and pandemic response, programmatic innovation and evaluation, and health policy research.

Vaccine safety and pharmacovigilance

Implementation of active safety surveillance, research on the background rates of adverse events, and the strengthening of pharmacovigilance in LMICs.

AMR surveillance and stewardship support

Research on the impact of substandard and falsified antimicrobials on AMR, antimicrobial stewardship, implementation strategies for AMR data-sharing barriers, and the One Health approach in AMR research.

Data analysis, GIS, and dashboard visualization

Analysis and visualization in R, Epi Info, SPSS, Stata, QGIS, ArcGIS, ATLAS.ti, and Power BI.

Scientific writing and technical products

Manuscripts, technical reports, policy briefs, and partner-facing products.

Experience

Current & Previous Affiliations

University of Washington Global Medicines Program

Graduate Research Assistant supporting GRAM, BIR, and BRAVE workstreams

AMR data-sharing research, stakeholder mapping in Africa, and dashboard and report development for vaccine safety work.

Task Force for Global Health / SPEAC

Contractor supporting active safety surveillance and emergency vaccine methods

Systematic reviews, active surveillance tools, mpox vaccine safety protocols, and Africa-focused training.

INSIGHT Project, University of Washington

Supported avian influenza surveillance collaboration in Georgia

Data collection tools, stakeholder engagement, and surveillance at poultry, cattle, and wild bird interfaces in Georgia.

Department of Livestock Services, Bangladesh

Served in epidemiology and implementation leadership roles

Zoonotic disease control, veterinary medicine regulation, policy support, planning, budgeting, and project implementation.

Field Epidemiology Training Program, Bangladesh

Conducted outbreak investigations and surveillance evaluations

Outbreak investigation, contact tracing, risk communication, analytic studies, and surveillance evaluation.

Recognition

Leadership, Fellowship & Awards

The Husky 100 Awards, University of Washington

2026

Thomas Francis Jr., Global Health Fund Endowed Student Fellowship, University of Washington

Spring, 2026

Ty Cramer and Steve Romein Term Fellowship in Global Health Leadership

Summer 2025

University of Washington Student Epidemic Action Leaders (SEAL) Team Member

2024

One Health Summer Camp on watershed management and interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Calgary, Canada

2024

Graduate of Fleming Fellowship program on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance

2020 to 2022

Qualifying the Workforce for AMR Surveillance (QWArS) AMR Professional Certificate Program of African Society for Laboratory Medicine

2022

First Place Winner, TEPHINET COVID-19 Video Contest

2020

Photograph published as cover photo: “Strengthening Health Security Across the Globe: Progress and Impact of U.S. Government Investments in the Global Health Security Agenda.”

2020

Photograph published as cover photo: “Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda: Results and Impact of U.S. Government Investments.”

2019

Graduate of Field Epidemiology Training Program Fellowship

2017-2019

Research

Research & Publications

Ongoing Research

Substandard and falsified antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance

Commentary with the University of Washington and Oxford University on medicine quality and AMR.

Ongoing Research

Prevalence and determinants of vaccine hesitancy in Africa

Systematic review with Africa CDC on drivers of vaccine hesitancy in Africa.

Ongoing Research

Background incidence rates for adverse events of special interest in Africa

Gates Foundation-supported work on AESI evidence and background rates in Africa.

Doctoral Research

Understanding barriers and facilitators of AMR data sharing in LMICs

Doctoral research on policy, technical, and implementation barriers to AMR data sharing in low- and middle-income countries.

Journal Articles

Systematic Review of Active Safety Surveillance of Vaccines and Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Drug Safety | 2025

Microbial Contamination and Antibiotic Resistance in Marketed Food in Bangladesh: Current Situation and Possible Improvements

Antibiotics | 2023

Secondary Human-to-human Transmission of Nipah Virus in an Ambulance, Northwestern Bangladesh, February 2019

OSIR Journal | 2022

Evaluating Electronic Health Record Readiness for Vaccine Safety Surveillance in African Hospital Settings: Evidence from BRAVE

ISoP Chapter Meeting Annual Meeting, Namibia | 2026

Active Safety Surveillance of Vaccines and Medicines in Africa and Other LMICs: Updated Landscape Assessment (2013-2025) and Interactive Dashboard

ISoP Chapter Meeting Annual Meeting, Namibia | 2026

Assessing Electronic Health Record Readiness for Vaccine Safety Surveillance in African Hospital Settings: BRAVE Network Findings

ESPID Annual Meeting, Bologna | 2026

Generation of Safety Evidence in the Context of Public Health Emergency: Scoping Review of Mpox Vaccines Active Safety Surveillance Protocols

ISoP Annual Meeting, Cairo | 2025

Leveraging Existing Infrastructure for Active Safety Surveillance of Vaccines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

ISoP Annual Meeting, Cairo | 2025

Landscape Assessment of Active Safety Surveillance of Vaccines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum, Rio de Janeiro | 2025

Landscape Assessment of Active Safety Surveillance of Novel Vaccines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Preliminary Results from Africa

ISoP Annual Meeting, Montreal | 2024

Presence of Third Generation Cephalosporin Resistant and Carbapenem-Resistant Escherichia coli in Human, Animal, and Environmental Samples in Bangladesh

World One Health Congress, Cape Town | 2024

Multidrug Resistance Escherichia coli in Fecal Samples from Chickens Raised in Commercial Farms, Bangladesh

TEPHINET | 2020

Use of Antibiotics in Broiler Chicken Farms, Narsingdi, Bangladesh

Bangladesh Congress on Epidemiology and Public Health | 2021

An Outbreak of Nipah Virus in Thakurgaon, Northern Bangladesh, 2019

International Journal of Infectious Diseases Conference Abstract | 2020

Training Materials

Training Materials

Global Health Focus

Training Materials

Importance of Antimicrobial Resistance

Course Contribution

Contributed video lectures for online course, “Redesigning Global Health.” University of Washington, Department of Global Health E-Learning Program, Jan–Mar 2026 (initial offering).

Training Materials

Ebola Outbreak in Africa Dashboard

Dashboard

Interactive Ebola Outbreak Dashboard

An interactive Ebola dashboard for Africa covering Ebola virus disease outbreaks, cases, deaths, case fatality rate, outbreak source, and country burden from 1976 to 2026.

37 outbreak records 37,044 cases 16,223 deaths 1976-2026

Training Materials

Peer Review Report Writing Tool

Visitor Resource

Peer Review Report Writing Tool

A guided learning tool with review instructions, an interactive checklist, progress tracking, and a print-ready export for manuscript reviewers.

Contact

Consulting & Collaboration

Available to support organizations working on vaccine safety research, pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, infectious disease and health systems strengthening.