Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, David A. Sack, Mahamud‐ur Rashid et al.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index patient seeks hospital care than it is for the general population. To initiate a standard of care for this high-risk population, we developed Cholera-Hospital-Based-Interven...
Md Manjurul Ahsan, Md Tanvir Ahad, Farzana Akter Soma, Shuva Paul et al.
Chest radiographs (X-rays) combined with Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) methods have been demonstrated to detect and diagnose the onset of COVID-19, the disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, questions remain regarding the accuracy of th...
Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Farzana Munshi et al.
Abstract We study transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey in Bangladesh. Workers transitioning between jobs are most likely to remain in the same type of employment, although there is still substantial churn across emp...
Christine Marie George, Danielle Jung, KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Shirajum Monira et al.
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age globally. The time patients and caregivers spend at a health facility for severe diarrhea presents the opportunity to deliver water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions. We recently developed Cholera-Hospital-Bas...
Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin, Shirajum Monira, David A. Sack et al.
Household contacts of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of a Vibrio cholerae infection than the general population. To examine risk factors for V. cholerae infections and investigate intervention strategies among this population, we followed household contacts of cholera patients for t...
Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, Toslim Mahmud et al.
Abstract Household members of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of cholera infections than the general population because of shared contaminated drinking water sources and secondary transmission through poor household hygiene practices. In this study, we investigated the bactericidal c...
Farzana Diba, M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Shaminur Rahman, Farhana Haque et al.
Abstract Background Arsenic (As) and its species are major pollutants in ecological bodied including groundwater in Bangladesh rendering serious public health concern. Bacteria with arsenotrophic genes have been found in the aquifer, converting toxic arsenite [As (III)] to less toxic arsenate [As (V...
Farzana Hossaini, Nayan C. Das, Fahamida Hossaini, Mrityunjoy Acharjee et al.
Background: Medicinal plants have been commonly used in traditional medicine against different ailment from ancient time. The present study was an attempt to determine the anti-bacterial traits of commonly available medicinal plants, especially having topical uses. Methods: A total of four types of ...
Arne Bigsten, Farzana Munshi
Abstract How does globalisation affect inter‐occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper examines this by focusing on two dimensions of globalisation: openness to trade and openness to capital flows, using a relatively new data set on occupational wages. Estimates from a dynamic model ...
Nayan C. Das, Farzana Hossaini, Saurab Kishore Munshi
The present study was carried out to assess the degree of microbiological proliferation in tannery wastes and the surrounding environment of the tannery industries. In this regard, a total of 8 tannery waste (n=4) and environmental (n=4) samples were tested. All the samples contained a huge load of ...
Farzana Munshi
This paper provides panel data evidence on trade liberalization and wage inequality in Bangladesh. Estimates from a dynamic model for five major manufacturing industries spanning the 1975–2002 period suggest that the effect of increased openness to trade is associated with a decrease in wage inequal...
Farzana Munshi
This paper provides panel data evidence on trade liberalization and wage inequality in Bangladesh. Using several standard econometric models, wage equations for skilled and unskilled workers in the formal manufacturing sector are estimated for the 1975-2002 period. The results, particularly the esti...
Farzana Munshi
This thesis evaluates empirically how globalization has affected occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. Three aspects of globalization – openness to trade, openness to capital and offshore-outsourcing – are examined in four self-contained essays. The first two essays evaluate...
Farzana Hossaini, Saurab Kishore Munshi, Moutoshi Chakraborty
The present study was carried out to determine the antimicrobial efficacy of green leafy vegetable samples which are traditionally used as medicinal herbs. Therefore, three samples each of Neem (Azadirachta indica, leaves), Ivy Gourd (Coccinia grandis, leaves), Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica, leave...
Farzana Munshi
Minimum wage policy is practiced in many countries with the intention of establishing a wage floor for low-wage workers having less bargaining power in the labour market. However, there is some evidence that such well-intended policy might have adverse effects on employment. This study employs a bas...