Dr Mohammad Bellal Hossain is working as a Professor at the Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka. He was the Chairperson of the same department for the period of March 2012 to March 2015. He has obtained his first post-graduate degree in Sociology from the University of Dhaka and then obtained another post-graduate degree in Sexually Transmitted Infections/HIV Related Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has obtained his PhD in Public Health and Policy from the world-renowned London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK with the funding from the British Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan.