Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, MBBS, MS, PhD
Areas of Research
Immigrant / Refugee / Ethnic Health
Dr. Turin's primary research interest is improving access to care by the vulnerable population of the society, including new immigrants and refugees, to meet the unmet needs. Dr. Turin draws upon the background as a clinician and a health service researcher with a diverse set of research methodological experience and has been involved in research collaborations both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Turin's primary research interest is improving access to care by the vulnerable population of the society, including new immigrants and refugees, to meet the unmet needs. Dr. Turin draws upon the background as a clinician and a health service researcher with a diverse set of research methodological experience and has been involved in research collaborations both nationally and internationally.
Health Service research / Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Dr. Turin's research in health service research / chronic disease epidemiology focuses on disease burden quantification and to study the change of the risk factors over time. He has been involved in chronic disease registry and chronic disease surveillance leading to measuring trends over time. His work on "rate of change" and "fluctuation / variability" of risk factors over time has received commendations. He also extensively worked with "lifetime risk" and "life expectancy" estimations associated with a number of chronic conditions. He also has extensively with "administrative databases" with linkage development for his research works.
Dr. Turin's research in health service research / chronic disease epidemiology focuses on disease burden quantification and to study the change of the risk factors over time. He has been involved in chronic disease registry and chronic disease surveillance leading to measuring trends over time. His work on "rate of change" and "fluctuation / variability" of risk factors over time has received commendations. He also extensively worked with "lifetime risk" and "life expectancy" estimations associated with a number of chronic conditions. He also has extensively with "administrative databases" with linkage development for his research works.
Social Media / Internet and Health Information / Promotion
Dr. Turin also has worked with data from social media and other Internet based platforms (e.g. news paper portals, YouTube, blogs for questions and answers, etc) to study the health information sharing and promotion activities.
Dr. Turin also has worked with data from social media and other Internet based platforms (e.g. news paper portals, YouTube, blogs for questions and answers, etc) to study the health information sharing and promotion activities.
Bibliometric Analysis / Research Productivity / Faculty Development.
Dr. Turin's has also led research with bibliometrics analyses to quantify global and local level research productivity across different research domains. He also used these metrics to help improve the research productivity across the faculty members.
Dr. Turin's has also led research with bibliometrics analyses to quantify global and local level research productivity across different research domains. He also used these metrics to help improve the research productivity across the faculty members.
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