Mahmudur Rahman

Biographic Data

ID5134573
NAMEMahmudur Rahman
GIVEN NAMESMahmudur
FAMILY NAMERahman
SIGNATURERAHMAN M
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research
ORCID0000-0002-3698-4852
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Effects of climatic factors on rotavirus infection in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Abu Sayeed, Syed Moinuddin Satter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Limited evidence exists concerning the association between climate factors and hospitalised rotavirus cases in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between temperature and hospitalised rotavirus cases among children aged < 5 years in Bangladesh. METHODS: We obtained weekly hospital admissions data for rotavirus from seven surveillance hospitals and climate data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department for August 2013…

  • A strategic blueprint for strengthening respiratory syncytial virus prevention among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessSaju Bhuiya, Fahmida Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of respiratory morbidity and mortality in children under five years of age, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2023, two RSV immunisation options, including a maternal RSV vaccine and a monoclonal antibody (mAb), became approved in several high-income countries. The World Health Organization has recently prequalified the maternal vaccine and the Gavi has committed fund…

  • Multisectoral coordination in public health

    Open AccessRana AlHamawi, Suhaib Yehya et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    The concept of multisectoral coordination has been comprehensively described in multiple internationally recognized frameworks. However, the institutionalization of the concept is highly complex and requires further exploration. During the 8th Biennial Regional Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), a roundtable session brought together a panel of global and regional experts in multisectoral coordination to share…

  • Physicians’ Intentions to Recommend Influenza Vaccine

    Open AccessMd Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas, Mahbubur Rahman et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Physicians' influenza vaccine recommendations in Bangladesh are suboptimal, influenced by gender, marital status, and attitudes. Targeted educational interventions addressing attitudinal barriers and leveraging institutional support could improve recommendation practices

  • Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and prevention practices regarding HIV/Aids among urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh

    Open AccessAbu Bakkar Siddique, Md Fakhrul Islam Maruf et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study pinpoints factors influencing HIV/AIDS knowledge and behaviours in Bangladeshi urban slum dwellers. Tailored interventions focusing on gender, and social media can enhance preventive measures. Acknowledging limitations, the study urges cautious interpretation due to potential biases in convenience sampling and self-reporting

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in humans in Bangladesh

    Open AccessSukanta Chowdhury, Md Saiful Islam et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Objectives: To determine the risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax infection in humans. Methods: During 2013-2016, we investigated total 26 anthrax outbreaks across the country. We additionally conducted a case-control study to identify risk factors by recruiting four controls for each enrolled case. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated to identify risk factors using multivariate logistic regression…

  • Tobacco smoking clusters in households affected by tuberculosis in an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys

    Open AccessYohhei Hamada, Matteo Quartagno et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Tuberculosis (TB) and non-communicable diseases (NCD) share predisposing risk factors. TB-associated NCD might cluster within households affected with TB requiring shared prevention and care strategies. We conducted an individual participant data meta-analysis of national TB prevalence surveys to determine whether NCD cluster in members of households with TB. We identified eligible surveys that reported at least one NCD or NCD risk factor through…

  • Cost-effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in WHO-defined high-risk populations in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Zakiul Hassan, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Bangladesh carries a substantial health and economic burden of seasonal influenza, particularly among the World Health Organization (WHO)-defined high-risk populations. We implemented a modelling study to determine the cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination in each of five high-risk groups (pregnant women, children under five years of age, adults with underlying health conditions, older adults (≥60 years), and healthcare personne…

  • Acceptability, cost-effectiveness, and capacity of a facility-based seasonal influenza vaccination among high-risk groups

    Open AccessMd Zakiul Hassan, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The Clinicaltrials.gov registration number is NCT05996549. The registration for the protocol version 2.0 took place in August 2023, with the initial participant being enrolled in March 2022

  • Quail Rearing Practices and Potential for Avian Influenza Virus Transmission, Bangladesh

    Open AccessS M Murshid Hasan, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2023

  • Covid-19-related stigma among older adults residing in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

    Afsana Anwar, Uday Narayan Yadav et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2023

  • Short-Term Effects of Climate Variability on Childhood Diarrhoea in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Rezanur Rahaman, Keith Dear et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The aim of this study was to estimate the effects of climate on childhood diarrhoea hospitalisations across six administrative divisions in Bangladesh and to provide scientific evidence for local health authorities for disease control and prevention. Fortnightly hospital admissions (August/2013-June/2017) for diarrhoea in children under five years of age, and fortnightly average maximum temperature, relative humidity and rainfall recordings for s…

  • Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Zakiul Hassan, Tahmina Shirin et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05521763. Version 2.0 was registered in September 2022, and the first participant enrolled in March 2022. Retrospectively registered

  • Environmental Change and Zoonotic Disease Risk at Human-Macaque Interfaces in Bangladesh

    Open AccessShahanaj Shano, Ariful Islam et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2021

  • The Summer 2019–2020 Wildfires in East Coast Australia and Their Impacts on Air Quality and Health in New South Wales, Australia

    Open AccessHiep Nguyen Duc, Merched Azzi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The 2019-2020 summer wildfire event on the east coast of Australia was a series of major wildfires occurring from November 2019 to end of January 2020 across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australia. The wildfires were unprecedent in scope and the extensive character of the wildfires caused smoke pollutants to be transported not only to New Zealand, but also across the Pacific Ocean to South America. At the pe…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Lifestyle Acquired Immunity, Decentralized Intelligent Infrastructures, and Revised Healthcare Expenditures May Limit Pandemic Catastrophe

    Open AccessAsif Ahmed, Tasnima Haque et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Human race has often faced pandemic with substantial number of fatalities. As COVID-19 pandemic reached and endured in every corner on earth, even countries with moderate to strong healthcare support and expenditure seemed to struggle in containing disease transmission and casualties. COVID-19 affected countries have variability in demographic, socioeconomic and life style health indicators. At this context it is important to find out at what ext…

  • Hunting Bats for Human Consumption in Bangladesh

    Open AccessNazmun Nahar, Mohammad Asaduzzaman et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2020

  • An Association between Rainy Days with Clinical Dengue Fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Open AccessKazi Mizanur Rahman, Yushuf Sharker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Dengue is transmitted throughout the year in Zone-5 of DCC, with seasonal variation in incidence. The number of rainy days per month is significantly associated with dengue incidence in the subsequent month. Our study suggests the initiation of campaigns in DCC for controlling dengue and other Aedes mosquito borne diseases, including Chikunguniya from the month of May each year. BMD rainfall data may be used to determine campaign timing

  • Covid-19 pandemic and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

    Open AccessRajon Banik, Mahmudur Rahman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020Cited by: 8References: 2

    The COVID-19 pandemic is now a global crisis and the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are in the most vulnerable situation. Lack of access to services that are considered critical and life-saving such as food, drinkable water, and shelter, together with limited access to health services are turning an already serious crisis into a major human disaster. Meanwhile, there are concerns that Rohingya refugees are already in too poor health to ward off …

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality

    Open AccessA Danielle Iuliano, Katherine Roguski et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • A Qualitative Stakeholder Analysis of Avian Influenza Policy in Bangladesh

    Open AccessKaushik Chattopadhyay, Guillaume Fournié et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2018

    Avian influenza is a major animal and public health concern in Bangladesh. A decade after development and implementation of the first national avian influenza and human pandemic influenza preparedness and response plan in Bangladesh, a two-stage qualitative stakeholder analysis was performed in relation to the policy development process and the actual policy. This study specifically aimed to identify the future policy options to prevent and contr…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…