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Sabrina Flora appointed Additional Director General of IEDCR


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Published : 13 Aug 2020 08:09 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 05:36 PM

Mirzadi Sebrina Flora, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), has been promoted to Additional Director General (Planning and Development).

The appointment was announced in a circular signed by Health Ministry Deputy Secretary Sharmin Akter Jahan on Thursday. The notification said that the order will be effective from August 20.

Professor Dr Sania Tahmina is currently working as Additional Director General of the Department of Health (Planning and Development). She will retire after her term expires on August 18.

Pathologist Professor Dr Sabrina got admission to Dhaka Medical College in 1983. From there she passed MBBS. Since then she has worked in some other organizations. She then got her postgraduate degree in pathology from the National Institute of Prophylactics and Social Medicine (NIPSOM). There she later worked as an assistant professor.

After that she worked for three years as Assistant Director in Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC).

She later earned a PhD from Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research.

Professor Dr. Mirzadi Sabrina Flora was appointed in 2016 as the Director of the Institute of Pathology, Disease Control and Research. After being appointed, she took various security measures and researched to prevent the spread of epidemic viruses and diseases in different important places of Bangladesh.

Under her leadership, security measures were taken at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport to prevent the global outbreak of Zika virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome virus and coronavirus in 2019-20.

Her team worked to prevent chikungunya in Bangladesh in 2017. When the outbreak of corona started in Wuhan, China at the end of last year, IEDCR also started working on corona in the country.

Under her leadership, press conferences on corona are held daily at 12 noon at the IEDCR building.

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