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Md Nuruzzaman Khan serves as an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics from the University of Newcastle and an MSc in Population and Human Resources from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. In addition to his role at Newcastle since 26 May 2022, he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Science at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University in Bangladesh since 5 February 2019, having previously served as Lecturer there from 5 February 2017 to 4 February 2019. Khan is a mixed-methods researcher specializing in public health issues in low- and middle-income countries, particularly maternal and child health. His academic interests encompass perinatal mortality, caesarean deliveries and their determinants, child undernutrition, short birth intervals, reproductive health including contraceptive use, unmet needs for contraception, unintended pregnancies, intimate partner violence, reproductive coercion, and cervical cancer screening. He also examines refugee health among Rohingya women in Bangladesh, health equity and contraception access for women with disabilities, mental health among students, early childhood development, nutritional disorders, gender-based issues such as early marriage and decision-making in childbearing, spatial epidemiology, infectious diseases, public health nutrition, and climate-sensitive diseases. His fields of research are categorized as reproductive medicine (70%), infectious diseases (20%), and public health nutrition (10%).