Mushfiqur Rahman  MSc, PhD Candidate
ARC Trainee

School of Population & Public Health
University of British Columbia

Mushfiqur Rahman completed his M.Sc. from the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. He is currently a doctoral student in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia. His research is being done at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada. Dr. Jacek A. Kopecof the School of Population & Public Heath is his PhD supervisor.  Mushfiqur is an awardee of a Canadian Arthritis Network/The Arthritis Society doctoral Award.

Using Population Data BC and the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) data, Mushfiqur’s main research objectives are: 1) to compare mortality rates in persons with and without osteoarthritis; 2) to determine if the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporotic fractures is increased among persons with osteoarthritis; and 3) to investigate the extent to which the risk of developing these conditions in persons with osteoarthritis is mediated by physical inactivity. These findings will help the management of burden of osteoarthritis, development of preventive strategies, and optimization of treatments of osteoarthritis. Mushfiqur is also working on the relationships of cardiovascular disease with gout, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis patients. Mushfiqur is interested in generalized linear models and Bayesian inferences.