Shamim Ahmed

Shamim Ahmed is a public health professional and a development economist. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto and pursuing doctoral research on Social and Behavioral Health Sciences. He is also working as a Teaching Assistant of Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Shamim is a published author. He has four well-acclaimed poetry books. Being a public health professional, he is known to be a philanthropist for his regular columns on diverse issues from politics to social science, poetry to diplomacy, and what not.

  • Cheating life

    by - Jun 18, 2017
    News Hour: Last few weeks have been extremely busy! Busy like the sunny sun, the dozy moon and the crazy life. I could hardly manage the time to be serious enough to be writing on a...

  • Much ado about nothing!

    by - Jun 4, 2017
    News Hour: Everyone around us seems to be angry these days. You are walking on the wrong side of the street – people get angry; you started crossing the road a second before the light turns...

  • Writers, you should know!

    by - May 21, 2017
    News Hour: What is the most confusing thing about Ekushey Book Fair? If you ask me, I would say the most difficult thing is to decide which book to buy? There are half a thousand publishers...

  • Is terrorism a threat to public health? – From a public policy perspective

    by - Mar 12, 2017
    Although, it is still a new concept and not many scientists are proactively considering terrorism as a public health threat, does not mean it has not attracted the attention of some thought-provoking genre of scientific arena....Read More

  • What your smile could do!

    by - Jan 29, 2017
    Look at the mirror, smile, and see how beautiful you are. Go out and smile, nod and wave and feel free. Smile, as one of my favorite lyricist Martin Charnin once said, “You are never fully...

  • What’s on your mind by the way?

    by - Jan 15, 2017
    News Hour: Do you have a friend who is utterly depressed about life? Whenever you meet them and ask them about how they are doing, they will come up with all the sad notes of lives....

  • Next stop is Summerhill …

    by - Jan 8, 2017
    News Hour: What virtual social networks have done to our lives? A bright young novelist of Bangladesh, Rafiuzzaman Sifat, recently put something on his Facebook as a status that really mesmerized my mind. He wrote that...

  • New Year’s resolution of a poet

    by - Jan 1, 2017
    News Hour: Someone from home asked me to suggest a few good books for her little sister to read during the winter break. It was a sudden request, I was not that prepared, but got overwhelmed...
Contact News Hour

Facebook

Twitter

Copyright 2024 | News Hour - stories around our lives ...