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Muhammed Nazmul Islam

Senior Research Fellow

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nazmul.islam@bracu.ac.bd

Centre Affiliation
  • Centre Of Excellence For Science Of Implementation And Scale-Up (COE-SISU)
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Short Biography

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at the BRAC University. My research interests include health economics, development economics, climate change, and impact evaluation. The research projects I am presently involved with focus on exploring pre- and post-pandemic energy use by enterprises and assessing the impact of climate change in the southwest region of Bangladesh. Most of my previous work involves the evaluation of different development interventions. I have evaluated the thermal performance of cool roofs, the impact of medical treatment loans in improving healthcare access, and the effectiveness of the edutainment program in changing perceptions related to child marriage in Bangladesh. Besides, I teach quantitative research methods in the MPH program at the school.

Research Interests

Impact Evaluation Health Economics Climate Change

Education

  • MSc. in Economics (University of Verona)
  • MBA, Finance (University of Dhaka)
  • BBA, Finance and Economics (United International University)

Module(s) taught (in MPH)

  • Quantitative Research Methods

Selected publications

  • “Islam, M. N., Engels, T., Hossain, S., Sarker, M., & Rabbani, A. (2019). Willingness to pay for cataract surgeries among patients visiting eye care facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Applied health economics and health policy, 17(4), 545-554.”

  • “Islam, M. N., Rabbani, A., & Sarker, M. (2019). Health shock and preference instability: assessing health-state dependency of willingness-to-pay for corrective eyeglasses. Health economics review, 9(1), 1-14.”

  • “Talukder, A., Islam, M. N., Sarker, M., Goswami, I., Siddiqua, R. R., Akter, F., ... & Latif, M. (2022). Knowledge and practices related to COVID-19 among mothers of under-2 children and adult males: a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. BMJ open, 12(5), e059091.”

  • “Rasul, F. B., Kalmus, O., Sarker, M., Adib, H. I., Hossain, M. S., Hasan, M. Z., ... & De Allegri, M. (2019). Determinants of health seeking behavior for chronic non-communicable diseases and related out-of-pocket expenditure: results from a cross-sectional survey in northern Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(1), 1-14.”

  • “Akter, S., Williams, C., Talukder, A., Islam, M. N., Escallon, J. V., Sultana, T., ... & Sarker, M. (2022). Harmful practices prevail despite legal knowledge: a mixed-method study on the paradox of child marriage in Bangladesh. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 29(2), 1885790.”

Full list of Publications

Current projects

  • Empowering the measurement of economic growth on the ground: Exploring energy use and enterprise behaviors in Dhaka
  • Climate change, migration, and health system resilience in some selected areas of Haiti and Bangladesh