Dr Md Asiful Islam BSc (Hons), PhD

Dr Md Asiful Islam

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Research Fellow 鈥� Systematic Reviewer

Contact details

Email
m.a.islam@bham.ac.uk
Address
WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women鈥檚 Health
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Asiful is a research fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women's Health with an expertise in evidence synthesis. He is currently working on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded research project focused on postpartum haemorrhage under Professor Arri Coomarasamy, OBE. He has a PhD in antiphospholipid syndrome, genetics, and evidence synthesis from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (QS rank 137). He has over . He has been ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University, USA, for three consecutive years (2021, 2022, and 2023).

Qualifications

  • PhD (with distinction) in Antiphospholipid syndrome, Genetics and Evidence Synthesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia (QS rank: 137), 2018
  • BSc (Hons), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jahangirnagar University, 2011

Research

Dr. Asiful is currently working with Professor Arri Coomarasamy, OBE to study postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a severe form of bleeding that occurs after childbirth. He is using the evidence synthesis method to gather and analyse data from a massive number of studies. This will help them to understand the rates, causes, risk factors, complications, consequences, economic evaluations, prevention, and management of PPH. Dr. Asiful is passionate about using evidence synthesis to improve public and global health and better understand aspects of clinical medicine.

Dr. Asiful's research interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Evidence synthesis
  • Public health
  • Global health
  • Clinical medicine
  • Systematic review
  • Meta-analysis
  • Qualitative and quantitative analyses

Other activities

Journal Editorial Board

  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Associate Editor, BMC Rheumatology
  • Academic Editor, Nature Scientific Data
  • Academic Editor, PLoS ONE
  • Academic Editor, PeerJ

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Sito, H, Sharzehan, MAK, Islam, MA & Tan, SC 2024, '', British Journal of Biomedical Science, vol. 81, 11835.

Gouda, W, Alsaqabi, F, Almurshed, M, Mostafa, AA, Albasri, A, Negm, A, Islam, MA & Kamal, M 2024, '', Journal of International Medical Research, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1-8.

Adil, SO, Musa, KI, Uddin, F, Khan, A, Khan, I, Shakeel, A, Shafique, K & Islam, MA 2024, '', Archives of Public Health, vol. 82, no. 1, 22.

Williams, CR, Adnet, G, Gallos, ID, Coomarasamy, A, G眉lmezoglu, AM, Islam, MA, Rushwan, S, Widmer, M, Althabe, F & Oladapo, OT 2024, '', BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 11, e015342.

Nipu, MAI, Kundu, S, Alam, SS, Dina, AN, Hasan, MA, Khan, M, Khalil, MI, Hossan, T & Islam, MA 2023, '', Cancers, vol. 15, no. 7, 2087.

Namjoynik, A, Islam, MA & Islam, M 2023, '', Stem cell research & therapy, vol. 14, no. 1, 132.

Islam, MA, Alam, SS, Kundu, S, Ahmed, S, Sultana, S, Patar, A, Hossan, T & Krogias, C (ed.) 2023, '', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 12, no. 19, 6311.

Devall, AJ, Easter, CL, Price, MJ, Islam, MA & Coomarasamy, A 2023, '', Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 50, no. 11, 236.

Editorial

Khandker, SS, Kotyla, PJ, Musa, KI & Islam, MA 2023, '', Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, vol. 10, 1249525.

Review article

Ahmed, S, Sultana, S, Kundu, S, Alam, SS, Hossan, T & Islam, MA 2024, '', Diseases, vol. 12, no. 2, 31.

Islam, MA, Ahmed, S, Sultana, S, Alam, SS, Hossan, T, Gouda, W, Alsaqabi, F, Hassan, R & Kotyla, PJ 2024, '', Antibodies, vol. 13, no. 1, 22.

Shakil, MS, Bhuiya, MS, Morshed, MR, Babu, G, Niloy, MS, Hossen, MS & Islam, MA 2023, '', Current medicinal chemistry, vol. 30, no. 15, pp. 1756-1775.

Ismail, NH, Mussa, A, Al-Khreisat, MJ, Mohamed Yusoff, S, Husin, A, Al-Jamal, HAN, Johan, MF & Islam, MA 2023, '', Non-coding RNA, vol. 9, no. 6, 68.

Melo, P, Dhillon-Smith, R, Islam, MA, Devall, A & Coomarasamy, A 2023, '', Fertility and Sterility, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 940-944.

Chia, YC, Siti Asmaa, MJ, Ramli, M, Woon, PY, Johan, MF, Hassan, R & Islam, MA 2023, '', Diagnostics, vol. 13, no. 1, 163.