Dr Syed Shariful Islam, MSc, PhD

Non-Clinical Lecturer

Biography

1998 - 1999
MSc Epidemiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

1998-2001
MRC Training Fellowship in Health Services Research

1999-2006
PhD, Health Services Research
Centre for Adult Oral Health
Barts and The London
Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry

2005 - 2006
Analyst
Healthcare Commission (HC)

2001 -  2004
Programme Leader Tobacco Prevention
CVD and Cancer Prevention Unit, Department of Health

1994 – 2001
Research Assistant/ Fellow
Department of Dental Public Health
Barts and The London
Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry

Publications:

Key Publications

Croucher, R. Islam, S. M. Rahman, R. Shajahan, S. Howells, G. and Jarvis, M. (2001): Nicotine dependency in Bangladeshi Women Chewing Tobacco with Paan. Tobacco Control 2:4: 171-176

Croucher, R. Islam, S. Jarvis, M. J. Garrett, M. Rahman, R. Shajahan, S. and Howells, G. (2003): Oral tobacco cessation with a sample of UK resident Bangladeshi women: a community pilot investigation. Health Education Research 18: 2: 216- 223

Kelleher, D. and Islam, S. (1996): ‘How Should I live?’: South Asian People and Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes. In: Kelleher, D and Hillier, S (eds): Researching Cultural Differences in Health. London: Rutledge 220-237

Islam, S. Croucher, R. and O’Farrell, M.(1995): Paan Ingredients Trade in London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. London: Department of Dental Public Health, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Tower Hamlets Healthcare NHS Trust

Kelleher, D. and Islam, S. (1994): The Problem of Integration: Asian People and Diabetes. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 87: 414-417

Publications since 2001

Islam, S. Pau, A. and Croucher, R.: Concurrent  tobacco use in a random survey of UK resident Bangladeshi men (2007): Journal of Public Health Dentistry (Accepted)

McNeill, A. Bedi, R. Islam, S. N Alkhatib, N. and West, R. (2005): Levels of toxins in oral tobacco products in the UK. Tobacco Control 15:64-67

Croucher, R. and Islam, S. (2001): Socio-economic aspects of areca nut use. Addiction Biology 7: 1: 139-146

Research interests:

Sharif Islam joins Queen Mary’s Institute of Dentistry in 2007 to contribute to both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses. His research interest spans across a range of psychosocial determinants of health and illness that include inequality, social capital and substance dependence. Sharif has extensively researched oral tobacco dependence and its prevention strategy.