Dr. Abdur Razzaque Sarker is an honorable advisor of the Centre for Policy and Economic Research (CPER). Dr. Sarker is a Health Economist Researcher from Bangladesh who has worked in health systems and economic analysis in both developed and developing nations. Dr. Sarker is currently working as a Visiting Research Scholar (May-Nov/23) at the Health Economic Unit at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Sarker obtained his Ph.D. in Health Economics and Management Science from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. His dissertation was based on the economics of disease in lower-middle-income countries.
Dr. Sarker completed two postgraduate degrees: Master of Health Economics and Master of Economics. Earlier, he worked for the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Thailand and Health Economist Consultant at International Vaccine Institute (IVI), South Korea. Earlier, he worked as an Associate Scientist and Health Economist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)- an international research organization located in Bangladesh. His research and academic skills have significantly focused on health system research, including economic analysis (various perspectives including patients, households, health system, and broader societal perspective), economic evaluation of public health programs including the economics of vaccine-preventable diseases (e.g., cholera, malaria, rotavirus, typhoid, dengue, pneumonia), the economics of non-communicable diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, cancer), mental health and quality of life research, the economics of elder health and healthcare financing related research (out-of-pocket expenditure, catastrophic burden, health insurance). He has published nearly a hundred articles in various reputed journals, including BMC's, BMJ's, PLOS's, Public Health, Public Health Nutrition, Vaccines, etc. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of Basel, Switzerland, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Planning, etc, have funded his research.
