Dr. Mohammad Mainul Islam is a Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Population Sciences of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was also former Project Director of the Strengthening the Capacity of Teaching and Research Facilities at the Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka (Second Phase, funded by the United Nations Population Fund-UNFPA and the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh). In addition, he had held the position of elected Member of the Syndicate –the highest decision-making body of the University of Dhaka for two consecutive terms between 2010 and 2014. Dr. Islam received his Ph.D. in Demography from the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, China, specializing in Population Health, in 2009. Dr. Islam got his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. He completed a Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program (GHR-CAPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University, Canada, between 2013 and 2014. Dr. Islam also got training at the Johns Hopkins Fall Institute in Barcelona, Stanford University, University of Laval, the University of Quebec at Montreal, Brown University, the University of Bergen, and the University of Maiduguri. He received the First Prize of Academic Excellence Award 2008 from Peking University, China. Later, he was named the Nick Simons Scholar of the New Investigator in Global Health program of the Global Health Council, Washington, DC, the USA, in 2010. He is a two-time winner of the New Voices in Global Health program, receiving these accolades in 2014 and 2016 at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. He was recognized as the Academician of the Social Sciences- the highest honor bestowed by the International Academy of Social Sciences (IASS), USA, 2014. He has presented his research at more than 100 international and academic conferences. He was invited to keynote and invited plenary speakers at various international and national scientific meetings. Dr. Islam has contributed to over 70 peer-reviewed publications, including publications of research findings to the first author in The Lancet, Lancet Global Health, Lancet Regional Health- Western Pacific, Journal of Global Health, Journal of Population and Social Research, PLOS ONE, BMC Women's Health. His lead-authored article is among the top 10% of most-cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2017. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Population and Development. Also, he is a Topic Editor of the Frontiers in Public Health (RT: 33512-Access and use of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Services among forcibly displaced populations and refugees).