Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti is working as a paediatric intensivist, paediatric respiratory physician, Senior Scientist and Head of Clinical Research at the Nutrition Research Division of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh. His clinical research focuses on serious paediatric illness, such as childhood pneumonia, tuberculosis, malnutrition, diarrhoea and its complications, sepsis, and hypoxemia. He is more dedicated in research involving low-cost innovative solutions, many of which have been translated into clinical services with improved quality of care and saving lives. Till date he has published more than 325 articles in international peer reviewed journals including Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, and Nature journals. He has been working as the Visiting Scientist in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA since 2022. In recognition of his contribution in translational science he has received gold medal of Bangladesh Academy of science, Bailey K Ashford Award by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Most Promising Childhood Pneumonia Innovation Award by Global Pneumonia Network, Australian Alumni Excellent Award by Monash University of Australia, AMAH Siddiqui Memorial Award by Polli Shishu Foundation, British Medical Journal, South Asia Awards by BMJ India and Bangladesh Paediatric Pulmonology Forum Award.