Research Fellow with James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. He specializes in empirical microeconomic research by focusing on issues such as public health, education, management practices in manufacturing sector and productivity. He has published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Regional Science, American Economic Review P&P, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Biosocial Science, Health Services Research and Archives of Internal Medicine, among others.