The government has appointed Dr Tahmina Shirin, chief scientific officer at the Virology Department of IEDCR, as its new director.
Her appointment at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) will be effective from August 20, according to a circular issued on Wednesday, by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
She succeeds Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, who has been transferred to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Dr Flora was appointed as the additional director general (planning and development) at the DGHS on August 13.
Dr Shirin completed her MBBS at Mymensingh Medical College. Later, she obtained PhD in immunology from Dhaka University in collaboration with Umea University in Sweden, and MPhil in virology from the Institute of Post-Graduate Medicine and Research, Bangladesh.
She joined the IEDCR in 2013.
