Sarker Masud Parvez, Farjana Jahan, Marie‐Noël Bruné, Julia Gorman et al.
Electronic waste (e-waste) contains numerous chemicals harmful to human and ecological health. To update a 2013 review assessing adverse human health consequences of exposure to e-waste, we systematically reviewed studies reporting effects on humans related to e-waste exposure. We searched EMBASE, P...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Rashidul Azad, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb et al.
BACKGROUND: Uptake matters for evaluating the health impact of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions. Many large-scale WASH interventions have been plagued by low uptake. For the WASH Benefits Bangladesh efficacy trial, high uptake was a prerequisite. We assessed the degree of technolog...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Laura H. Kwong, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Ayşe Ercümen et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and concentration of Escherichia coli in child complementary food and its association with domestic hygiene practices in rural Bangladesh. METHOD: A total of 608 households with children <2 years were enrolled. We collected stored complementary food samples, per...
Fakir Md Yunus, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Md. Zahidul Alam, Samar Kumar Hore et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic exposure to arsenic is associated with neoplastic, cardiovascular, endocrine, neuro-developmental disorders and can have an adverse effect on women's reproductive health outcomes. This study examined the relationship between arsenic skin lesions (a hallmark sign of chronic arseni...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Farhana Akand et al.
BACKGROUND: Contaminated complementary foods are associated with diarrhea and malnutrition among children aged 6 to 24 months. However, existing complementary food safety intervention models are likely not scalable and sustainable. OBJECTIVE: To understand current behaviors, motivations for these be...
Solaiman Doza, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Laura H. Kwong et al.
Consumption of contaminated stored food can cause childhood diarrhea. Flies carry enteropathogens, although their contribution to food contamination remains unclear. We investigated the role of flies in contaminating stored food by collecting food and flies from the same households in rural Banglade...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Rashidul Azad, Amy J. Pickering, Laura H. Kwong et al.
BACKGROUND: Hands are a route of transmission for fecal-oral pathogens. This analysis aimed to assess associations between hand E. coli contamination and child age and determine if observed hand cleanliness can serve as a proxy for E. coli contamination on young children's hands. METHODS: Trained fi...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P. Luby et al.
BACKGROUND: Health programs commonly promote handwashing by drawing attention to potential fecal contamination in the environment. The underlying assumption is that the thought of fecal contamination will result in disgust, and motivate people to wash their hands with soap. However, this has not pro...
Mahbubur Rahman, Farjana Jahan, Sk Masum Billah, Farzana Yeasmin et al.
BACKGROUND: Universal screening for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia risk assessment is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics to reduce related morbidity. In Bangladesh and in many low- and middle-income countries, there is no screening for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Furthermore, neonatal h...
Jesmin Sultana, Ipsita Sutradhar, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan et al.
The decision-making process and the information flow from physicians to patients regarding deliveries through cesarean section (C-section) has not been adequately explored in Bangladeshi context. Here, we aimed to explore the extent of information received by mothers and their family members and the...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Rashidul Azad, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Supply driven programs that are not closely connected to community demand and demand-driven programs that fail to ensure supply both risk worsening inequity. Understanding patterns of uptake of behaviors among the poorest under ideal experimental conditions, such as those of an efficacy ...
Dalia Yeasmin, Notan Chandra Dutta, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman et al.
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), hand sanitizer may be a convenient alternative to soap and water to increase hand hygiene practices. We explored perceptions, acceptability, and use of hand sanitizer in rural Bangladesh. We enrolled 120 households from three rural villages. Promoters dis...
Mahbubur Rahman, Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Sharmin Khan Luies, Sharika Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: The influx of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) has left the Southwest coastal district of Cox's Bazar with one of the greatest contemporary humanitarian crises, stressing the existing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources and services. This study aimed to assess the...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mahbubur Rahman, Feng J. He et al.
We evaluated the relationship of urinary sodium excretion with a conditional mean, 10th and 90th percentiles of body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference among 10,034 person-visits of Bangladeshi population. We fitted linear mixed models with participant-level random intercept and restricted ma...
Sarker Masud Parvez, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Rashidul Azad, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Abstract Background: Supply driven programs that are not closely connected to community demand and demand-driven programs that fail to ensure supply both risk worsening inequity. Understanding patterns of uptake of behaviors among the poorest under ideal experimental conditions, such as those of an ...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Syeda Nurunnahar, MM Rahman, Laura H. Kwong et al.
BACKGROUND: Food hygiene is a critical but underemphasized link in fecal-oral disease transmission in dense informal settlements. A mesh-walled meatsafe, designed to exclude insects, animals, and young children while allowing ventilation, was distributed in a randomized controlled trial in Korail, D...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Syeda Nurunnahar, Nazrin Akhter, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Diarrheal diseases remain a leading cause of under-five mortality globally, yet large-scale water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions have shown limited effects on childhood diarrhea and growth, partly because foodborne transmission has been overlooked. In low-income urban settings, comple...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Syeda Nurunnahar, Nazrin Akhter, Mahbubur Rahman (2822912) et al.
<div> Diarrheal diseases remain a leading cause of under-five mortality globally, yet large-scale water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions have shown limited effects on childhood diarrhea and growth, partly because foodborne transmission has been overlooked. In low-income urban settings, ...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Syeda Nurunnahar, Nazrin Akhter, Mahbubur Rahman (2822912) et al.
<div> Diarrheal diseases remain a leading cause of under-five mortality globally, yet large-scale water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions have shown limited effects on childhood diarrhea and growth, partly because foodborne transmission has been overlooked. In low-income urban settings, ...
Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Syeda Nurunnahar, Nazrin Akhter, Mahbubur Rahman (2822912) et al.
Baseline household characteristics of participants in randomized controlled trial of meatsafes in Dhaka, Bangladesh.