MBBS, MD (Psychiatry)
Professor, Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka

Dr. Helal Uddin Ahmed has graduated from Chittagong Medical College and completed MD (Psychiatry) from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka. He received fellowship training on Child Psychiatry from ‘Fondazione Child’, Italy and trained on ‘Autism and Neurodevelopmental disabilities’ from South Korea. He also received fellowship from Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN-Fellow) in 2010, Indo-Global Psychiatric Initiative fellowship (IGPI Fellow) in 2011 and ‘Y-Mind Fellowship’ from Sao Paulo-Brazil in 2013. He worked as a Temporary Advisor of WHO-Bangladesh, in the field of mental health and substance abuse for a short tenure in 2012. He was the Area Coordinator of the Australasia region of the Early Career Psychiatrists Council of WPA (World Psychiatric Association)from 2012 to 2014. He has contributed in 45 publications as author or co-author and presented 11 scientific papers in international conferences held in Bangladesh, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Brazil, Italy and Spain. He has more than 200 popular write-ups on mental health issues, published in national daily and weekly newspapers. In 2013 Dr. Ahmed received “Prof. Hidayetul Islam Gold Medal Award” for research contribution and devotion in Psychiatry as a young psychiatrist of Bangladesh. Currently Dr. Helal Uddin Ahmed is working as Professor of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry in National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dhaka, Bangladesh.