Gulam Khandakar

Associate Professor Gulam Khandaker completed a PhD and NHMRC early career fellowship with the University of Sydney. He was trained in Paediatrics and Public Health at the Children's Hospital at Westmead and National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). His current position is Director of Public Health for Central Queensland, but he remains affiliated with the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) Clinical School. He established a population-based register for children with cerebral palsy (CP) in Bangladesh, and is now leading an international multi-centre register of children with CP in low and middle-income countries (Global LMIC CP Register: GLM-CPR). He also leads a hospital-based CP surveillance project in Hanoi, Vietnam, and a community based key informant’s method survey of children with CP in the remote Sumba Island of Indonesia. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Co-Director of the Asian Institute of Disability and Development (AIDD – www.disabilityasia.org) and Honorary Executive Director of an international NGO advocating for the rights and children with disability; CSF Global (www.csf-global.org).