Senior Assistant Chief, Human Resources Development Unit &Member Secretary, National HRH Master Plan Committee, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka-1000.
E-mail: islamks7@gmail.com

Dr. Khaled Shamsul Islam is a Senior Assistant Chief of the Human Resources Development Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Before joining this Unit, he was the Deputy Project Director of the National School Health Programme during 1997-2001. From 1990-96 he worked as a senior Research Officer in Bangladesh Institute of Research and Promotion for Essential Reproductive Health & Technologies. Graduated with a medical degree in 1989, he also earned a number of postgraduate diplomas in Health Economics, Adolescent Health and Health System Development from universities in Bangladesh, Thailand, Canada and Sweden. He gained a Master of Health Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1999. He also gains Fellow of College General Practitioners from Bangladesh College of General Practitioners and Masters of Public Health from Atish Diponkor University of Science and Technology. Dr. Islam has extensive experience conducting research in human resources for health and has written and published a number of research reports, books and articles. He is life member of Bangla Academy and Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Now he is engaging himself for preparing long term national comprehensive HRH Master Plan (2010-2040) for Bangladesh by 2010.