Dr. Mohammad Alauddin is the current Chairperson of the Board of Governors of UCEP Bangladesh. He has been associated with UCEP since its beginning at the Institute of Social Welfare and Research.
Dr. Alauddin holds a Master’s degree in Social Welfare from the Dhaka University Institute of Social Welfare and Research, as well as a Master’s of Social Work (MSW) and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He has served as a faculty member of the Dhaka University Institute of Social Welfare and Research from 1966 to 1984.
While at the Dhaka University, he provided consultancy services to the esteemed organizations, such as, the World Bank, the Population Council, USAID, and IUCW.
Taking early retirement from the university, Dr. Alauddin joined a Boston-based NGO, Pathfinder International, as its Bangladesh Country Representative and committedly served Bangladesh through NGO engagement in transforming its social values of large family to small family.
As a distinguished NGO representative in the field of family planning, he represented Bangladesh Family Planning NGOs at the international conferences held in Mexico, Egypt, and Indonesia. His expertise in developing and managing community-based maternal, child health and the family planning services has extended beyond borders, Dr. Alauddin has provided training consultancy to countries, such as Egypt, Tanzania, Pakistan, India, and Tibet.
As a devout promoter of education, he is the co-founder-Trustees of University of Asia Pacific located at Green Road in Dhaka. He was the unanimously selected Chairman of Board of Trustees of the University of Asia Pacific for the 2022-23 period.
At his own local area, his family established SN Academy at Jhawail in Gopulpur Upazila under Tangail district to provide well-grounded elementary education to the children of his own rural area so that they can move forward to higher education with their own strength of well-grounded elementary education.
Dr. Alauddin has a significant number of local and international publications in the field of population and family planning to his credit. His book, “Samajik Gabaysana: Baigyanik Gyan Onneswan Paddhati,” published by the Textbook Division of Bangla Academy (Social Research: Methods of Seeking Scientific Knowledge) — a recommended textbook at the university level is now found in second edition.