Professor Dr Muhammad Aziz Rahman is an experienced academic, a medical doctor and a public health professional. Following completion of medical graduation (MBBS), he completed his postgraduation in Public Health (MPH, PhD). Currently, he is working as the Research Adviser at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing and the Discipline Leader of Public Health at Federation University Australia in Melbourne.
Professor Rahman has been working in the areas of public health research and teaching for more than 15 years, both in Australian and international settings. He is trained on advanced public health from Australia, UK, Europe, South Asia and USA. He has an excellent track record of providing leadership in completing different research and community projects successfully focusing on different aspects of public health, securing funding, producing high quality research publications, supervising higher degree research students, assisting in capacity building and providing supportive supervision to the early/mid-career researchers and collaborating successfully with experienced researchers.
Professor Rahman has published more than 150 research papers in multidisciplinary journals with more than 68,000 citations. Due to his extraordinary track record of research citations, he has been
ranked amongst the world’s top 1% scientists for the last subsequent three years (2021-23), ranking done by Elsevier BV and Stanford University, USA. He has contributed to generating in excess of $12 million funding in his professional career. He has extensive research collaboration internationally and successfully led several multi-country research projects with significant outputs.
Professor Rahman has been providing leadership in learning and teaching during the past 15 years, both in Australia and internationally, and at undergraduate and postgraduate delivery. He is also an experienced supervisor and has successfully supervised a number of PhD and Masters students to completion. He is currently supervising 6 PhD students and half of them are international students. Professor Rahman is also actively engaged with professional communities through different leadership roles. He is a Board Member and the Co-Convenor for the Health Promotion Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), the largest organization for public health professionals in Australia. He is also a Board Director for the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA). He is also an Editorial Board Member of a number of international public health journals. He is also actively engaged with multicultural communities in Australia to improve their awareness on health and wellbeing.