Nepal C. Dey, Mahmood Parvez, Mir Raihanul Islam
The northeastern part of Bangladesh is characterized by a unique wetland ecosystem called haor, which experiences regular monsoon flooding starting from late May/June. But change in rainfall pattern over last few decades has resulted in increased risk of early monsoon flash floods like the flood of ...
Nepal C. Dey, Mahmood Parvez, Mir Raihanul Islam, Sabuj Kanti Mistry et al.
Diarrhoea, the most common disease directly related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), still remains one of the most significant health problems among children under-five worldwide. In this reality, BRAC, the largest NGO in the world initiated a comprehensive WASH intervention in 50 upazilas ...
Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, Isobel M. Blake, Stephanie A. Brennhofer, Md Ohedul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical surveillance for COVID-19 has typically been challenging in low-income and middle-income settings. From December, 2019, to December, 2021, we implemented environmental surveillance in a converging informal sewage network in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to investigate SARS-CoV-2 transmissi...
Mahmood Parvez, Mir Raihanul Islam, Nepal C. Dey
Abstract The livelihoods of wetland (Haor) communities living in northeastern region of Bangladesh are largely dependent on agriculture. Unseasonably heavy rainfall in Haor basin and upstream Indian catchments triggered a devastating early monsoon flash flood in Haor basin at the beginning of April ...
Nepal C. Dey, Mahmood Parvez, Ratnajit Saha, Mir Raihanul Islam et al.
This study, conducted in Tala Upazila (with > 0.3 million people) situated in a coastal district of Bangladesh, endeavors to identify the water quality situation and to assess people’s willingness to pay for safe drinking water; with a view to develop policies and programs to improve people’s access...
Shawan Chowdhury, Thomas Hesselberg, Monika Böhm, Mir Raihanul Islam et al.
Butterflies are important pollinators and indicators of environmental health. Habitat destruction and fragmentation caused by developmental activities and poor natural resource management are the main reasons for the drastic decline of butterfly populations throughout the world, and prompt the need ...
Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune, Bushra Zarin Islam, Mir Raihanul Islam, Zarin Tasnim et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study explored Frontline Health Workers' (FLWs) knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on COVID-19 and their lived experiences, in both their personal and work lives, at the early stage of the pandemic in Bangladesh. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This was a qualitative study cond...
Blake Angell, Mushtaq Khan, Mir Raihanul Islam, Kate Mandeville et al.
OBJECTIVE: Doctor absenteeism is widespread in Bangladesh, and the perspectives of the actors involved are insufficiently understood. This paper sought to elicit preferences of doctors over aspects of jobs in rural areas in Bangladesh that can help to inform the development of packages of policy int...
A. S. M. Rubayet Ul Alam, Ovinu Kibria Islam, Md. Shazid Hasan, Mir Raihanul Islam et al.
Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has evolved into eight fundamental clades with four of these clades (G, GH, GR, and GV) globally prevalent in 2020. To explain plausible epistatic effects of the signature co‐occurring mutations of these circulating clades on vira...
Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, S. M. Raihanul Alam et al.
Facebook users often join Facebook groups to connect to the people with the same interest regardless of the fact that the other members take the same standing with them. Our study aims to investigate Bangladeshi users' motivation to join and strategies to manage their Facebook groups and identify th...
Rehana Arjuman Hye, Nur Sayeeda, G. M. Raihanul Islam, Jannatul Farjana Mitu et al.
INTRODUCTION: Postpartum anemia is often over-treated with blood transfusion without clear indication despite having a potential alternative of parenteral iron therapy. The present study aimed to compare the efficacy of intravenous (IV) iron sucrose with blood transfusion in increasing the hematolog...
Hassan M. Al‐Emran, Md. Shazid Hasan, Md. Ali Ahasan Setu, M. Shaminur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh introduced ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 since February, 2021 and in six months, only a small population (12.8%) received either one or two dose of vaccination like other low-income countries. The COVID-19 infections were continued to roll all over the places although the information on gen...
Md. Belal Hossain, Mahmood Parvez, Mir Raihanul Islam, Hala Evans et al.
Abstract Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which can largely be prevented by controlling avoidable lifestyle-related risk factors, are rapidly penetrating the entire world, including developing countries. The present study aimed to assess NCD lifestyle risk factors among the adult population in Bang...
Sharifa Sultana, Pratyasha Saha, Shaid Hasan, S. M. Raihanul Alam et al.
Through Facebook "Group" feature, users often sensitize communionships, join different Facebook groups, and establish imagined communities with known people and strangers. In our interview study with 32 admins and users of Facebook groups, we explored the influential factors of such communionships, ...
Erin Wettstone, Md Ohedul Islam, Lauren Hughlett, Claire Reagen et al.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many dashboards were created to visualise clinical case incidence. Other dashboards have displayed SARS-CoV-2 sewage data, largely from countries with formal sewage networks. However, very few dashboards from low-income and lower-middle-income countries integrated b...