MUHIUDDIN HAIDER, MS, PhD
Muhiuddin Haider is a Senior Associate for the Center and Assistant Professor of Global Health and International Affairs. Dr. Haider has extensive field experience in 21 countries in South, East, and Central Asia, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
As the country representative for Nepal of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program, Dr. Haider designed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated USAID funded public health activities for the Nepal Behavioral Change Communications Project. He served as the Training Director for the Pakistan Private Sector Population Program for Key Social Marketing in collaboration with the Futures Group International (TFGI) and DFID, London. Under the USAID SOMARC III project, Dr. Haider managed and provided technical assistance in social marketing/public and private sector activities in a variety of countries.
Dr. Haider’s areas of expertise include health communications, infrastructure development, training, capacity building, and healthcare reform with an emphasis on reproductive health, family planning, AIDS prevention, maternal and neonatal health, child survival, and water management. His current work includes a website to communication efforts related to anthrax vaccine and a social mobilization/communications program in Kenya under WHO’s Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis.
Dr. Haider teaches graduate level courses in health communication, social marketing, and program management. Dr. Haider, a native of Bangladesh, received a B.A. with honors and a Master’s degree in Sociology from Dhaka University in 1970. He holds two additional Master’s degrees in Communications from Michigan State and in Population Planning from the University of Michigan and has a Ph.D. in Public Health/Population Education from the University of Michigan.
