Dr. Tanvir Turin Chowdhury
Positions
Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
CPD Director
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences
Member
Libin Cardiovascular Institute
Member
O'Brien Institute for Public Health
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 210-7199
Location
Office: HSCG012
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Research partners
Collaboration with researchers, organizations, or policy makers who works on the immigrant and ethnic-minority issues.
Research partners
Work with any organizations or policy makers who needs research help to fulfill their mandates.
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Epidemiology, Shiga University of Med Science, 2008
Masters Health Promotion, Karolinska Institutet, 2005
Bachelor, Medicine and Surgery Medicine, Dow Medical College, 1998
Biography
Dr. Turin has received training in medicine, population and public health, epidemiology and health services research. He trained and worked as a physician in Bangladesh. He received his Masters in 2005 from Karolinska Institute, Sweden and his PhD in 2008 from Shiga Medical University, Japan. After finishing a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Japan Science of Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), he moved to University of Calgary in 2010 to pursue another Postdoctoral Fellowship with The Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration (ICDC). He also acquired fellowship awards from the Canadian Health Research Institute (CIHR) and the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA).
Dr. Turin's primary research interests are challenges in access to care and unmet needs faced by the socially vulnerable population of the society, including new immigrants, refugees, and visible minority / ethnic communities. He leads his program of research through the approach of Community Based Participatory Research and Integrated Knowledge Translation where efforts for Meaningful Community Engagement is at the core. He draws upon the background as a population health person with a diverse set of research methodological skills and transdisciplinary experience and has been involved in research collaborations both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Turin supervises graduate and undergraduate students on topics directly related to his research program. He also mentors community scholar and citizen researcher to improve community level research literacy towards community capacity building.
Research
Areas of Research
Dr. Turin's current research work includes health promotion towards mitigation of barriers to health care and reducing the unmet health needs faced by the immigrant communities.
Dr. Turin's primary research interests unmet needs faced by the socially vulnerable population of the society, including new immigrants, refugees, and visible minority / ethnic communities.
Dr. Turin's primary research interests are challenges in access to equitable care faced by the socially vulnerable population of the society, including new immigrants, refugees, and visible minority / ethnic communities.
Dr. Turin leads his program of research through the approach of Community Based Participatory Research and Integrated Knowledge Translation where efforts for Meaningful Community Engagement is at the core.
Dr. Turin conduct his knowledge mobilization research through equitable and empowered involvement of the immigrant/racialized communities.
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| MDCH 740 LEC 01 01 | Advanced Epidemiology | 2016 ~ till date |
| MDCH 740 TUT 01 T01 | Advanced Epidemiology | 2016 ~ date |
| MDSC 203 LEC 01 01 | Dev Health Research Literacy I | 2020 ~ till date |
| MDSC 203 TUT 01 T01 | Dev Health Research Literacy I | 2020 ~ till date |
| MDCH 640 LEC 01 | Fundamentals of Epidemiology | 2013-2016 |
| MDCH 640 TUT 01 | Fundamentals of Epidemiology | 2013-2016 |
Projects
Awards
- O'Brien Institute Societal Impact Award, O'Brien Institute of Public Health. 2021
- BMSA 5th Anniversary Professional Excellence Award: Scholarly, Bangladesh Medical Society of Alberta. 2021
- Immigrants of Distinction Awards: Achievement Under 40 Award, Immigrant Services Calgary. 2014
Publications
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