Professor Dr. Shahjahan Khan is an eminent statistician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia. With a career spanning over 40 years in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, he held various esteemed positions, including Founding Professor of Statistics. Dr. Khan is a renowned expert in systematic review and meta-analysis, having conducted workshops and published extensively in these areas. He is a elected Expatriate Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He received several prestigious awards for his research and leadership, including gold medals from ISESCO and ISOSS. As the President of ISOSS, he was the main organizer of successful international conferences in Malaysia, Egypt, Qatar, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Since 2022, he has been serving as the Vice Chancellor of Asian University of Bangladesh. Dr. Khan's exceptional academic excellence, research contributions, and international reputation have cemented his position as a distinguished figure in the field of statistics and health sciences.
Dr. Md Shafiur Rahman is a Junior Associate Professor at the School of Health Innovation, Kanagawa University of Human Services, Japan. He is also affiliated with the Research Center for Child Mental Development and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, and the National Cancer Center, Japan. Dr. Rahman has served as a data scientist for the Asia Cohort Consortium for nearly eight years and was previously an adjunct faculty member at St Luke's International University, Japan. Dr. Rahman's research interests lie in Bayesian statistics, epidemiology, child neurodevelopment, universal health coverage assessment, and systematic review and meta-analysis. He has published extensively in prestigious medical journals and received notable fellowships and research grants for his contributions to the field.