Rate My Professor Nazmul Karim

Dr Md Nazmul Karim is an Associate Professor (Clinical Epidemiology) in the Medical Education Research and Quality (MERQ) unit within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. He also serves as Program Manager of Monash Online’s postgraduate health courses. Karim holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Dhaka (1997), Master of Public Health from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (2002) on occupational safety and health in the multinational tobacco industry, Master of Clinical Epidemiology from Monash University (2009) assessing diabetes risk factors via recursive partitioning, PhD in Epidemiological Modelling from Monash University (2017) predicting cardiac surgery outcomes in an Australian patient cohort, and Postgraduate Diploma in Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control from the University of Copenhagen supported by a World Health Organization scholarship. His professional career began as a medical practitioner overseas, followed by international public health roles, including National Consultant for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion and Technical Officer for Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation at the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office. He joined Monash University in 2017 as an education-focused academic.

Karim's research specializations include health professional education, focusing on predictors of student performance and retention, effectiveness of carousel-based teaching, stress and coping mechanisms among students, and psychometrics and item response theory in educational measurement. In public health and clinical research, his interests encompass climate-based predictive models for dengue outbreaks, impacts of dietary patterns on obesity and diabetes in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, micronutrient intake and pregnancy outcomes, and the role of uric acid in cognitive decline and physical disability. He has received the Australian Government AusAID Scholarship, Monash Graduate Scholarship, International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Postgraduate Publication Award, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SPHPM Teaching Excellence Award (2022), Teaching Excellence Award (2024, shared), and MNM Research Development Grants (2021/2023). Key publications include "Effect of maternal dietary niacin intake on congenital anomalies" (2021), "Health system readiness for non-communicable diseases at the primary health care level" (2022), "A systematic review of dengue outbreak prediction models" (2022), "Higher serum uric acid levels and risk of all-cause mortality" (2025), and "Development and validation of a professionalism assessment tool to assess professionalism in pre-clinical medical students" (2025). His scholarship has over 2,500 citations on Google Scholar.