Public Health Specialist Dr. Nizam Uddin Ahmed has been elected as a member of the CSO Constituency Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI), a global alliance of vaccine management
He will hold this position for the next three years from June 1, 2021, a recent press release said.
Dr. Nizam Uddin Ahmed Executive Director of the Shastho Shurokkha Foundation, a local development agency, and the Chief Executive Officer of Synesis Health which is the Health Division of Synesis IT, the country’s leading IT service provider.
The release said his appointment to the CSO Committee of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI), an organization responsible for global public health and vaccine assurance, will contribute to public health and vaccine development in Bangladesh and South Asia.
The international organization, The Vaccine Alliance, with the overall support of GAVI, contributes to the vaccination of developing countries through a combination of government, non-government organizations and CSOs, the release stated.
Dr. Nizam Uddin Ahmed said, “I would like to thank and express my utmost gratitude to this international organization for electing me as a member of the CSO Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI). I hope that by being included in this committee, I will try to contribute to the development of public health in Bangladesh and the coordination and ensuring of fair vaccination.”
