Jennifer C. Hunter, Duc T. Nguyen, Bashir Aden, Zyad Al Bandar et al.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections sharply increased in the Arabian Peninsula during spring 2014. In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, these infections occurred primarily among healthcare workers and patients. To identify and describe epidemiologic and clinical charact...
Masayuki Teramoto, Marissa B Reitsma, Yohannes Abate, Abdallah H A Abd Al Magied et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking is the leading behavioural risk factor for mortality globally, accounting for more than 175 million deaths and nearly 4·30 billion years of life lost (YLLs) from 1990 to 2021. The pace of decline in smoking prevalence has slowed in recent years for many countries, and although st...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James et al.
BACKGROUND: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method ...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Abraham D. Flaxman et al.
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use by national registration systems has been the amount of time and cost needed for...
Bachera Aktar, Wafa Alam, Samiha Ali, Abdul Awal et al.
Safeguarding is rapidly rising up the international development agenda, yet literature on safeguarding in related research is limited. This paper shares processes and practice relating to safeguarding within an international research consortium (the ARISE hub, known as ARISE). ARISE aims to enhance ...
Sabina Faiz Rashid, Bachera Aktar, Nadia Farnaz, Sally Theobald et al.
In this paper we aim to better understand the lived experiences of the slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the social, economic and health and well-being constraints resulting from the nationwide shutdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. We undertook rapid qualitative research telephone interviews (51, ...
Kim Ozano, Wafa Alam, Bachera Aktar, Linet Okoth et al.
Equitable health research requires actively engaging communities in producing new knowledge to advocate for their health needs. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) relies on the coproduction of contextual and grounded knowledge between researchers, programme implementers and community part...
Wafa Alam, Farzana Manzoor, Nadia Farnaz, Bachera Aktar et al.
BackgroundVaccine hesitancy was identified as a major threat to global health by WHO in 2019. This hesitancy was also observed with COVID-19 vaccination rollout in many countries including Bangladesh, where it began on Feb 7, 2021. Reasons for this include lack of knowledge, misinformation, low trus...
Sanjana Nujhat, Wafa Alam, Ayushka Parajuli, Wagdi Ali Mohammed Mohsen et al.
BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 67% of annual deaths in Bangladesh. Behavioural and clinical risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood glucose concentrations, dietary habits, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption contribute to the prevalence of N...
Wafa Alam, Sanjana Nujhat, Ayuska Parajuli, Laurent Banyira et al.
BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 67% of all deaths in Bangladesh. Several programmes are being implemented at the primary health-care level for NCD control in rural Bangladesh. This study aimed to assess the readiness for NCD health services provision in primary health-care fac...
Chengqi Shi, Muntasir Murshed, Mohammad Mahtab Alam, Wafa Ghardallou et al.
Since bettering environmental conditions has acquired significant interest globally, discovering factors that may facilitate the establishment of environmental sustainability is currently of foremost importance. Hence, this study considers a sample of 33 members of the Organization for Economic Coop...
Mohamed Alboraie, Tawesak Tanwandee, Xiaoyuan Xu, Dafina Nikolova et al.
Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha, Jinshuo Li, Eliud Kibuchi, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
INTRODUCTION: People living in slums face several challenges to access healthcare. Scarce and low-quality public health facilities are common problems in these communities. Costs and prevalence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) have also been reported as high in studies conducted in slums in...
Wafa Alam, Nadia Farnaz, Farzana Manzoor, Sally Theobald et al.
Vaccine hesitancy or low uptake was identified as a major threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019. Vaccine hesitancy is context-specific and varies across time, place, and socioeconomic groups. In this study, we aimed to understand the perceptions of and attitudes towa...
S. M. Abdur Rahman, Shofiul Alam, Ummay Sumaya Wafa, Mohammad Wasiful Gofur et al.
Farzana Manzoor, Wafa Alam, Imran Hossain, Nadia Farnaz et al.
BackgroundSocial capital, which describes the social ties enjoyed by groups and networks with common interests, is one of the most useful resources in society. These networks could be both formal and informal, with positive effects seen at both individual and community levels—especially during crisi...
Wafa Alam, Sabina Faiz Rashid
This chapter reviews how in the absence of formal power structures and voice in slum settlements in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, informal settlement dwellers drew on social relationships and informal networks with others in their communities such as neighbours, landlords, local shopkeepers, and slum lead...
Ummay Sumaya Wafa, Rowshan Ara Begum, Shamimul Alam, Hawa Jahan et al.
Actin proteins are highly conserved cytoskeletal elements that play crucial roles in numerous cellular processes in eukaryotes, including muscle contraction, maintenance of cell shape, motility, and division. They facilitate essential functions such as cytokinesis, surface translocation, vesicle fus...
Kazi Reyashad Alam, Syeda Muntaha Tarabi, Isma Rabbi, Partha Guha et al.
Plastic waste is one of the biggest threats to our ecosystem, and its continued use may endanger the existence of human life on Earth if no viable alternative is found. Using paper as a substitute is not a suitable solution due to its limited applications compared to plastic. This situation urges th...
Kamol Dey, Poonam Alamgir, Shahnaz Parvin, Gulshana Mohol et al.
Bioactive composite films were prepared using bioresorbable phosphate glass powder and biodegradable polymer gelatin (G) through solution casting process. Biocompatible monomer, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) was used as the cross-linking agent and bioresorbable phosphate glass (PG) powder was u...