Dr Salahuddin Ahmed is a medical doctor with a PhD in global health from the University of Edinburgh and a public health epidemiologist with over 24 years of experience designing and managing epidemiological studies, disease surveillance, monitoring and evaluating public health programs. His research focuses on improving the health and nutritional status of newborns, children, and women in low-resource settings by enhancing the understanding of the major causes of neonatal, child, and maternal morbidity, mortality and malnutrition by designing and testing cost-effective public health interventions against them. The design and scope of his studies are diverse, ranging from formative research to implementation research to randomized clinical trials. His research also focuses on integrating and strengthening the health system in low- and middle-income countries.

He serves as Executive Director and Scientist of Projahnmo Research Foundation, Bangladesh. Before that, he worked as a Research Director at Johns Hopkins University – Bangladesh, Projahnmo. He also worked at CARE Bangladesh, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Jhpiego; Population Council, and Mitra and Associates. He is a member of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness working group in Bangladesh and the National Technical Working Committee for Newborn Health in Bangladesh.

Dr. Salahuddin Ahmed has published over 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented his studies at many international scientific conferences.