Julhas Sujan is a computer science engineer and health informatics specialist currently working as a Researcher for the International Vaccine Institute’s (IVI) based in Seoul, South Korea. He is collaborating with the 12 South and Southeast Asian countries on AMR, AMU, AMC surveillances, and an external quality assurance (EQA) trial for microbiology laboratories. For the last ten years, Julhas has been working on different disease surveillances, with a particular focus on project implementation, application development, interoperability, advance data analysis, visualisation and manuscript writing using latest technologies.

Previous to joining IVI, Julhas worked with the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo to design and develop DHIS2 interoperable applications, skill development mentor and AMR surveillance for ICMR in India.

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering from Pabna University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh, advanced training in enterprise application development (J2EE) from Infosys, Mysore, India, and a master’s degree in public health. He has previously worked with a variety of national and international organizations such as University of Oslo, USAID-MTaPS, Management Sciences for Health, Bashundhara Group and collaborative projects with Big Data Institute-University of Oxford, Brigham and Women’s Hospital-USA, Public Health Surveillance Group-USA, UKAID, WHO, UNICEF, ICDDRB, Save the Children, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority, Communicable Disease Control, IEDCR, National Tuberculosis Program, Bangladesh Pharmacy Council, DGDA and the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Personal dossier: https://julhas.com.