Sultana Shajahan

Dr Sultana Shajahan is a Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. After completing her medical degree in Bangladesh, she earned a Master of Public Health (Research) degree with High Distinction at Macquarie University, Sydney. She then pursued a PhD at The George Institute for Global Health and UNSW, which was awarded in 2026. Her doctoral research focused on high-level evidence synthesis and advanced analyses of large international datasets (including  ADVANCE, PROGRESS, and SCAPIS) to investigate the associations of a wide range of clinically important blood pressure measures with cognitive decline and dementia. For her PhD research, she was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in 2023. She has also worked several years at The George Institute, leading projects in stroke, women’s health and sex differences. Her research interests lie in systematic reviews, meta-analyses, clinical trials, stroke, vascular dementia and cognition, and women’s health.

Beyond her PhD, Dr Shajahan undertook a  three-month international research exchange program at Linköping University, Sweden, funded by The Swedish National School for Research in General Practice. She was also a Site Physician in the recently completed RECALL-Pilot trial, which tested an online intervention to reduce dementia risk through blood pressure management.