Section for Oral Health

Shaila Akter, M.Sc.

Research areas

  • Public health
  • Communicable and non-communicable diseases
  • Quality improvement
  • Health economics
  • Health system and policy research

Academic Background

  • Since 2022: External PhD candidate, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2022: Master of Science in International Health, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2017: Bachelor of Dental Surgery, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Publications

  • Maxwell, L; Shreedhar, P; Chavan, SA; …Akter, S (2023). Overlapping research efforts in a global pandemic: a rapid systematic review of COVID-19 related individual participant data meta-analyses, BMC Health Serv Res 23, 735, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09726-8
  • Maxwell, L; Gilyan, R; Chavan, SA; …Akter, S (2021). Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy cohorts: a scoping review protocol [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2021, 10:847, doi: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.55501.1
  • Mamun, M.A; Akter, S; Hossain, I; et al. (2020). Financial threat, hardship and distress predict depression, anxiety and stress among the unemployed youths: A Bangladeshi multi-city study, Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 1149-1158, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.075

Current projects

  • DELIVER: DELiberative ImproVEment of oRal care quality (2022-2026)
    • Funding organization: EU Commission Horizon Europe
  • ORCHESTRAD (2020-2024)
    • Funding organization: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Past projects

  • ReCoDID (2019 – 2023)
    • Funding organization: European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme

  • Electronic Health Records in Dentistry (2023)
    • Funding organization: Hengry Schein Inc.

  • ArboFusio (2019-2022)
    • Funding organizations: Belgium: Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Germany: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Israel: Ministry of Health (CSO-MOH), Brazil: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Dominican Republic: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT), Ecuador: Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT), Peru: National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC)