Researcher biography

K M Shahunja is a physician and clinical researcher. He completed his MBBS degree from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh and Post Graduate Diploma in Paediatrics and Child Health from Imperial College London, UK. Before joining  UQ, he worked for nine years at an international research organization (www.icddrb.org) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His main research interests include child respiratory and alimentary diseases and malnutrition. So far, he has completed clinical research including clinical trials and published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals.

With a PhD scholarship from QAEHS, he is researching the effects of family, neighbourhood, and psychosocial environmental changes on asthma symptom trajectories of Australian children.