Byomkesh Talukder

Research Fellow, Planetary Health

Research Fellow

Dr. Byomkesh Talukder is the inaugural Planetary Health Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (York University), where he works at the intersection of health, sustainable development, climate change, food and agriculture. He will be working with the Faculties of Health and of Environmental Studies to develop health indicators associated with the Ecological Footprint. Dr Talukder will also be working on modelling the health impacts of climate change related extreme weather events. His past research applies a complexity science approach to designing sustainability assessment models of food and agricultural systems in Bangladesh. Dr. Talukder also has over 15 years of interdisciplinary field and training experience, including the supervision of over 2,000 emerging leaders in sustainable development programs and policy design in Bangladesh. Since 2016, he has been a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow at Parmalat Canada and the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Dr. Talukdar holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies (Wilfrid Laurier University), a MSc in Environmental Studies (Queen's University), a MA in Development Science (Hiroshima University), and a MSc in Geography and Environmental (Jahangirnagar University).

Themes	Planetary Health
Status	Active
Related Work	COVID-19's impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention \| Library, Research Modeling Resource Allocation for the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals \| Library, Research Towards Complexity of Agricultural Sustainability Assessment: Main Issues and Concerns \| Library, Research Diagnosis of Sustainability of Trans-Boundary Water Governance in the Great Lakes Basin \| Library, Research Planetary Health Initiatives in Bangladesh \| Project Digital technologies and local food security: Smallholder farmers in Odisha, India, in the context of COVID-19 \| Project, Research Mapping Imported Food Supply Chains to Identify Climate Change-Related Health Risks \| Project, Research Ecological Footprint Health Indicators \| Project, Research Complex Adaptive Modelling of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi \| Project, Research Climate Change, Salinity & Public Health in Bangladesh \| Project, Research
Updates	Publication – Integrating Blue: How Do We Make Nationally Determined Contributions Work for Both Blue Carbon and Local Coastal Communities? \| 25 May 2022 Publication – Climate Change-Accelerated Ocean Biodiversity Loss & Associated Planetary Health Impacts \| 4 March 2022 New Book Chapter: Review and Selection of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Technique for Sustainability Assessment \| 18 June 2021 Opportunity - Film Editor, Humanitarian & Global Health Organizations at the Nexus of Planetary Health and Climate Change-Related Extreme Weather Events \| 2 June 2021 Publication - Health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers \| 12 May 2021 Dahdaleh Institute Planetary Fellow to present at the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival \| 29 April 2021 Multi-indicator supply chain management framework for food convergent innovation in the dairy business \| 28 March 2021 New Publication: Melting of Himalayan Glaciers and Planetary Health \| 28 March 2021 New Publication: COVID-19's implications on agri-food systems and human health in Bangladesh \| 28 March 2021 Decision-making Tool for Allocating Resources to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals \| 21 December 2020 Assessment of COVID-19 Reporting Discrepancy in Bangladesh \| 15 December 2020 Project Launch: Digital technologies and local food security in the context of COVID-19 \| 23 September 2020 Byomkesh Talukder Publishes on Medium \| 11 May 2020 Byomkesh Talukder Presents at STTPA Conference 2019 \| 12 November 2019 Director & Research Fellow at the Planetary Health Annual Meeting \| 7 September 2019 Director & Research Fellow at System Dynamics Society Conference \| 26 July 2019 Byomkesh Talukder Presents at Conference in Nanjing \| 26 July 2019 Dahdaleh Institute Attending Planetary Health Annual Meeting \| 23 July 2019 Dahdaleh Researchers in China, Ireland, Bangladesh and USA \| 27 June 2019 Planetary Health Researcher Speaks in Bangladesh \| 7 May 2019 Documentary Filmmaker Launches Three New Projects \| 3 May 2019 Byomkesh Talukder Publishes Article on Ecological Indicators \| 10 December 2018 Byomkesh Talukder Publishes Article on the PROMETHEE Framework \| 10 December 2018 Dahdaleh Institute at the University of Edinburgh \| 25 September 2018 Significant Progress at The Dahdaleh Institute \| 17 May 2018 Byomkesh Talukder Presents at the Pegasus Conference \| 28 April 2018

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Byomkesh Talukder