For Outstanding Social Services

Dr. Iftikher Mahmood was born and raised in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. He obtained his medical degree from Bangladesh, Subsequently he moved to the US and he completed his Pediatric Residency from Brooklyn Hospital, New York and obtained fellowship training in Pediatric Endocrinology in New York Hospital – Cornell University. In 1996 Dr. Mahmood settled in Florida and established a successful pediatric practice in Miami.

During his early days of medical education, Dr. Mahmood felt that there was tremendous unnecessary suffering being endured by impoverished women and children in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Dr. Mahmood made it his life’s mission to serve them.

In May 1999 Dr. Mahmood established Hope Foundation for Women & Children of Bangladesh as a charitable organization in the State of Florida, USA. The mission of Hope Foundation is to provide healthcare to the poorest and economically marginalized people, especially the women and children of Bangladesh.

​In December of 1999, the first outpatient clinic was opened by Hope Foundation in a rented room with just one doctor providing medical care to poor people of the area. Since then, Hope has built multiple hospitals, rural clinics, training centers, midwife-led birth centers, and so much more.  Under his leadership, Hope Foundation opened one of the first midwifery schools in the country to support the country’s maternal healthcare efforts. In 2017, when the Rohingya community fled Myanmar and took shelter in the district of Cox’s Bazar, in the southern part of Bangladesh, his team established several health facilities, including a field hospital for women. Under his leadership, the Hope Foundation expanded its activities to 17 districts in Bangladesh.

​Dr. Mahmood is an adjunct professor at College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha and he holds faculty position in Tufts Medical School in Boston, USA

Dr. Mahmood received CMCNA Recognition Award for extraordinary Social Services in 2014, and BMANA Humanitarian Award in 2018

He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife and three children.