Rebeca Sultana

Dr. Sultana will spend her fellowship year at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b) in Bangladesh under the mentorship of Dr. Firdausi Qadri, PhD and Dr. Layla Kwong, MS, PhD. Her research will focus on assessing the willingness-to-pay of consumers of poultry in the live bird markets of Dhaka city to understand the determinants for improved poultry-handling practices to advance biosecurity.

Dr. Sultana is an Associate Scientist at icddr,b. She is a Cultural Epidemiologist with 22 years of experience in social and public health research and development, training and program implementation on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (e.g., Nipah, avian influenza, Japanese encephalitis, COVID-19), water and sanitation (e.g., hepatitis-E, diarrheal diseases), maternal and child health, and gender and development in Bangladesh. In addition, she has 17 years of extensive experience in public health research that includes anthropological research, quantitative survey administration, program monitoring and evaluation, policy focused research, economic burden studies, implementation of community-based preventive interventions, and outbreak investigation of diseases. She aims to continue her career as a public health researcher with a particular focus on infectious and emerging infectious diseases.