Page 80 - IBT October 2020

Interview

“We need to

remove any

misconceptions

and reassure the

public that

wearing a mask

is the best

defence against

the COVID-19

pandemic until a

vaccine is

invented.”

Dr. Dipak Kumar Mitra

Dipak Kumar Mitra is a physician by training and obtained his PhD in
epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and
MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, USA. He worked in the International
Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) from 1994 to 2012 and
participated in several research grants as Principal Investigator and
Co-Investigator. He then joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health as an Assistant Scientist and worked from 2012 to 2015. He led a number
of large community-based epidemiological studies and trials as the local Principal
Investigator jointly designed and implemented by the Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health and the icddr,b and funded by NIH, BMGF and USAID.
Currently He is a Professor and chair in the Department of Public Health in North South University.

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