Dr Nahid Choudhury

Biography

Dr Nahid Choudhury is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Swinburne School of Health. He is a qualified clinician (registered nurse) and trained and specialised in infection prevention and control (IPC). He has completed a PhD in Infection Prevention from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and trained and specialised in IPC.

After completing his PhD, he commenced post-doctoral research at the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) group at Griffith University. He was involved in several NHMRC-funded AVATAR clinical trial projects on vascular catheter devices. Later he started health service evaluation research in Queensland Metro South Health.

Recently, Dr Choudhury was successful in achieving Nursing and Midwifery Research Fellowships (NMRF) with research funding valued $120,000 from Queensland Health in partnership with the Queensland Board of Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. He also received the Excellence in Learning and Teaching Team Award 2022 from the University of Canberra Faculty of Health.

Dr Choudhury is a recipient of over half a million in research funding from various sources including Queensland Health, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Foundation, and University Research Grants. He was the author of two Lancet papers and published 22 papers in high-ranking journals and presented research outcomes at national and international conferences.