Platform II: RESPIRE Studentships
Find out more about RESPIRE PhD students
Based across our four partner countries - Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Pakistan - RESPIRE PhD students from a vibrant global respiratory community of early career researchers.
Each PhD student is undertaking a unique project in the field of global respiratory health, co-supervised by leading researchers at the University of Edinburgh and partner institutions.
Salahuddin Ahmed
Project: Community use of digital auscultation to improve diagnosis of paediatric pneumonia in Sylhet, Bangladesh (Embedded PhD project)
GM Monsur Habib
Project: Enhancing access to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) through implementation research in Bangladesh
Mohammad Shahidul Islam
Project: Long-term effects of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection in young infants (Embedded PhD project)
Ahad Mahmud Khan
Project: Developing a video expert panel as a reference standard to evaluate respiratory rate counters in paediatric pneumonia diagnosis
Lois King
Project: Addressing neglect of childhood pneumonia within global health governance: a case study in Bangladesh
Hana Mahmood
Project: mHealth for Pneumonia Prevention (Embedded PhD project)
Rutuja Patil
Project: Feasibility of using a teleconsultation facility (Micro-Health Centre -MHC) in management of CRDs in remote rural area
Biswajit Paul
Project: Chronic Respiratory Disease and Lung Cancer: Development and pilot testing of an intervention in a southern Indian rural community (Embedded PhD project)
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman
Project: Implementation research on introducing pulse oximetry with routine IMCI services at first level health facilities of Bangladesh (Embedded PhD project)
Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan
Project: Culturally Tailored School-Based Interventions for Childhood Asthma in Malaysia (CuT-AsthMa)
Sudipto Roy
Project: Care-seeking practices of and barriers to care-seeking for pneumonia in children aged less than five years in tribal and non-tribal rural areas of Pune district, India
Hani Salim
Project: Developing and piloting an ICT-based intervention for adult asthma with limited health literacy to improve asthma self-management