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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading contributor to global burden of disease internationally and is the second largest contributor to burden of disease in Australia, despite declining CVD mortality globally. With improving CVD survival, there is an increasing need to consider the consequences of living with CVD, for individuals and society. Many people with CVD are disabled to the extent that their core activities, including their ability to participate in the workforce and social interaction, are affected. The effect of CVD on workforce participation and social interaction is of particular significance in a society like that in Australia where there is a gradual increase of older population and there is increasing survival with CVD. It not only affects the overall health and financial well-being of the person living with CVD, but also has consequences for society given the substantial economic benefits of retaining people in the workforce or health benefits by keeping them socially active.

Shahdaat's PhD research aims to contribute to our understanding of how workforce and social interaction of people living with CVD vary from those of people without CVD. In this presentation, Shahdaat will present and discuss the findings of systematic reviews, cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations on how workforce participation and social interaction of people with CVD vary compared to those in people without CVD. Shahdaat will also highlight the strength and weakness of large-scale linked data, impact of loss to follow-up in the effect size estimations, and their implications for future research and practice.

About 

Muhammad Shahdaat Bin Sayeed is a PhD candidate at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health within the Research School of Population Health at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. He has been conducting research at ANU since 2017 with an Australian Government Research and Training Scholarship.

Shahdaat’s prior qualifications include a BPharm (Honours) and MPharm(Thesis) degree from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a MSPS degree (Fulbright Scholarship) from the University of Toledo, OH, USA. He has been involved in teaching and conducting research at different universities since 2011, and his published research papers have been cited over 8,000 times. He is interested in using large-scale linked data for pressing research questions relevant to population health and medicine.