Tahsin Tasneem Tabassum
Project Support Officer (EDI Researcher)
Profile
Biography
Tahsin is a medical doctor who achieved a master’s in public health and is currently working as a public health researcher in the UK. After her internship, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she served as the research project supervisor for two crucial investigations, named ‘Tobacco Consumption and Severity of COVID-19 Patients - Bangladesh Perspective’ and ‘Risk Factors Associated with COVID-19 Reinfection.’ Tahsin has worked as research assistant in multiple other projects such as ‘Astute exploration of collective mental health events among the residents of elderly care homes in Bangladesh’ and ‘The compliance status of tobacco control laws in Bangladesh: A sagacious approach in a university setting.’
Tahsin also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, a branch of Public Health, with the responsibility of guiding and nurturing the academic growth of undergraduate students. Her duties extended from traditional classroom teaching to evaluating student performance to organizing field visits, allowing students to witness the practical applications of community medicine.
Tahsin has always attempted to bridge the gap between preventive and curative medicine with her work.
Tahsin is a PhD student at the Department of Health Sciences, University of York in the SCIMITAR project. Her aim is to explore the health risk behaviours of people with Severe Mental Illness in South Asia with the objective of modifying them and decreasing morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population in the developing countries.
ResearchGate Profile:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tahsin-Tabassum-4
Qualifications
- MBBS
- MPH (Community Medicine)
- MPH, University of York
Contact details
@healthsciyork