Dr Sabuj Kanti Mistry
- 2024- PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine, аIJʹÙÍø Sydney, Australia
- 2013- MSc in Public Health, University of Bedfordshire, UK
- 2009- MSc in Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2008- BSc (Honours) in Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sabuj Kanti Mistry is a public health researcher and lecturer at the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on epidemiology and management of chronic diseases, particularly for at-risk population groups, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, older adults, and refugees.
Sabuj was previously working as a senior researcher at BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) and was involved with several studies related to its flagship community health worker (CHW) intervention in Bangladesh. Later, he co-designed a model of care to engage CHWs as community health navigators (CHNs) in the general practice settings of Australia to improve access to health and social care services among patients with chronic diseases from CALD backgrounds. He subsequently explored the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention in selected general practices in Australia. This model of care has been widely accepted in the Australian context, and several researchers (including him) and public health practitioners are currently trialling out the intervention with different at-risk population groups in Australia.Â
Sabuj has also significantly contributed to the field of global public health and conducted several studies in many countries, particularly in the global South (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal) on chronic disease epidemiology and management, focusing on at-risk population groups. In these studies, he focused on exploring the chronic disease vulnerability, frailty, functional disability, and quality of life among the older population, including those of refugee backgrounds in the global South. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he explored the syndemic effect of COVID-19 on chronic diseases, including mental health and difficulties in accessing care for chronic diseases.
Sabuj has authored more than 100 high-quality international peer-reviewed publications and participated in more than 20 national and international conferences/forums as a presenter or panel discussant. He also received more than two million AUD research grant as an investigator to conduct research in Australia and overseas. He is also a visiting academic at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh, and honorary director of ARCED Foundation, Bangladesh.
Sabuj is the founder of the Multicultural Health Care Support Group (MHCSG) in Sydney and the NSW lead of the CALD Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH). He is also the co-convenor of аIJʹÙÍø ECA Migrant Support Network and a member of the аIJʹÙÍø Medicine & Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity-Culture and Linguistic Diversity (MHEDIC-CALD) network. He is also a member of the NExuS research group (Nutrition, Exercise, and Social Equity) at the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health at аIJʹÙÍø.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Kurt G., Mistry S.K. Co-design workshop to understand facilitators and barriers of academic performance among аIJʹÙÍø ECAs from migrant backgrounds. AU$ 2,500 (2025-2026)
- Yadav U.N., Joshi R., Peiris D., Ghimire S., Nghiem S., Bhatta N., Sapkota B.P., Mistry S.K., Sharma H., Majhi R. Implementation and evaluation of a novel Codesigned Integrated Multimorbidity Management by Community Health Workers (CIMM-CHW) in eastern Nepal- Type II hybrid implementation trial. AU$2,00,0000 (2025-2030).
- Mistry S.K., Yadav U.N., O'Callaghan C., Rosenbaum S., Harris M. Developing culturally adapted health services for chronic disease prevention and management among migrants of South Asian communities in Australia and Canada. AU$15,000 (2024-2025).
- Mistry S.K., Yadav U.N., Harris-Roxas B., Huda M.N., Masud A.A., McKeon G., O'Callaghan C., Paudel G., Rosenbaum S. Codesigning a community-based intervention to improve access to chronic disease preventive and treatment services among multicultural communities in Sydney. AU$5,000 (2024-2025).
- Mistry S.K., Huda MN. Developing a Multicultural Health Care Support Group in Sydney, Australia. AU$ 4,500 (2024-2025).
- Menon K., Puthussery S., Ravalia A., Panchal P., Rana R., Mistry S.K., Tseng P., Bhandol J., and Mavalankar D. Effectiveness of nutrition interventions in low and middle-income countries: an evidence summary. £20,000 (2014-2016).
- Mistry S.K., Haris E., Harris M (2019). Best student award to present at the Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Annual Research Conference
- Mistry S.K. (2019). Scientia PhD Scholarship to pursue PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Mistry S.K. (2016). DFID Fellowship to attend Workshop on Systematic reviews and Evidence summary at Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sabuj is currently leading the study to explore the barriers and facilitators to accessing chronic disease preventive and treatment services among people of Bangladeshi origin living in Sydney, which was funded through a seed grant from the School of Population Health, аIJʹÙÍø Sydney. He is also involved in a research study funded through the Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (CESPHN) exploring the role of Community Health Navigators (CHNs) in improving access to health and social care services among patients from selected CALD backgrounds in the general practice setting. He is part of a multi-million-dollar GACD grant to co-design a CHW model of care in Nepal and is leading a аIJʹÙÍø project in collaboration with McGill University, Canada. Moreover, he is also leading a collaborative project exploring the physical and psychosocial situations among older adults residing in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
- Co-Convenor, аIJʹÙÍø ECA Migrant Support Network (2025- ongoing)
- NSW Lead of Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) CALD SIG (2025- Ongoing)
- Convener, Multicultural Healthcare Support Group (2024- ongoing)
- Member, Community Health Worker-Community of Practice, аIJʹÙÍø Sydney (2021- ongoing)
- Member, Nutrition, Exercise, and Social Equity (NExuS), аIJʹÙÍø Sydney (2024-ongiong)
- Representative of the School of Population Health, аIJʹÙÍø Sydney at Addi Moves (2024- ongoing)
My Research Supervision
PhD supervision:
Afsana Anwar: Food security and mental health among the refugee population in Sydney
Fouzia Khanam: Implementation and sustainability of community health and navigators in Australia
Undergraduate supervision:
Diana Ibrahim (Internship): Equity in access to speech pathology in Sydney Local Health District
My Teaching
I am currently the convener of two courses (Global Health Systems; and Health Leadership) for the Bachelor of International Public Health, School of Population Health, аIJʹÙÍø Sydney.Â