Muhammad H Zaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5710890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad H Zaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaman |
| SIGNATURE | ZAMAN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3723-5431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Highlighting the need for more holistic, participatory design of assistive technologies in displacement settings
Forced displacement exacerbates existing disabilities and can lead to the development of functional impairments, especially for women, children, and aging populations. Estimates indicate 15 to 33% of displaced individuals live with disabilities, but data remains limited. This perspective piece describes the current landscape of assistive technologies addressing physical, motor, and sensory disabilities in displacement settings. While some initiat…
Biofilms as potential reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in vulnerable settings
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, characterized by the ability of microorganisms to withstand the effects of antimicrobial agents. Biofilms, as unique microbial communities, significantly contribute to this threat. They provide a protective environment for pathogens, facilitate horizontal gene transfer, and create an ideal setting for the persistence and evolution of resistant bacteria. This issue can be particularly impor…
Infectious disease research in forcibly displaced populations
Mapping utility and applicability of research and ethics frameworks for displaced populations
Displaced communities face risks to quality of life and health, such as poverty, crowded living conditions, exposure to environmental contaminants, and poor access to healthcare, highlighting areas for research on the challenges they endure. However, these communities are routinely subject to extractive research practices with little regard to local participation or sustainability. To facilitate better research, there is a need for tools and fram…
Refugee Health Inclusion
This commentary examines how structural constraints shape health access in refugee camps. It stems from a recent workshop on refugee health and reflects an interdisciplinary, policy‐focused dialogue. We argue that humanitarian aid alone is insufficient. Instead, long‐term, rights‐based approaches are needed. Donor dependency, legal exclusion and geopolitical dynamics undermine access to care. These challenges create artificial divides between cam…
Reimagining Refugee Camps
The existing model for health provision in refugee camps is not fit for purpose, especially for protracted displacement. As individuals are increasingly displaced beyond the temporary period for which camps are designed, it is critical that we reimagine care provision in such settings and give increased attention to individuals' dynamic and complex needs throughout their displacement. This Commentary reflects ongoing discussions from an interdisc…
Mapping a Way to Displaced Persons’ Access to Quality Medicines
Reliable, adequate supply of essential items, including quality-assured medicines, is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries. Disruption of medicine supply chains delays treatment for displaced persons and drives procurement of poor-quality products, often from unauthorized or unlicensed sellers. This article explains how current strategies and policies disrupt reliable flow of safe medicines to refugee camps and ca…
We Wait for a Miracle
Waves of attention
This article uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to review 75 years of international policy reports on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our review of 248 policy reports and expert consultation revealed waves of political attention and repeated reframings of AMR as a policy object. AMR emerged as an object of international policy-making during the 1990s. Until then, AMR was primarily defined as a challenge of human and agricultural domains…
A mathematical model to estimate the incidence of child wasting in Yemen
The model-derived incidence rates, consistent with findings from other contexts that a global incidence correction factor cannot be sufficient, allow for improved, context-specific estimates of the burden of wasting in Yemen. In crisis settings such as Yemen where funding and resources are extremely limited, the model's outputs holistically capture the burden of wasting in a way that may guide effective decision-making and may help ensure that li…
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd., 1935–2016
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla toward producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in both Cipla's corporate archives and a wide range of oral histories. The article argues that, along with a long-standing corporate culture of self-reliance rooted in nationalism starting from the company's inception in 1935, major factors in Cipla's strateg…
Benchmarking national action plans on antimicrobial resistance in eight selected LMICs
All NAPs were concordant with GAP. However, gaps exist in relation to M&E, diminishing the countries' capacity to be accountable and implement corrective action if necessary. Most lacked financing plans and targets for antimicrobial use reduction. The antimicrobial quality assurances strategies are limited in most of the NAPs assessed. A mechanism by which countries can benchmark their NAP would allow identification of specific limitations and ar…
A predictive model for healthcare coverage in Yemen
The model developed and presented in this manuscript shows a seasonal trend in the spread of diarrheal disease in children under five living in Yemen through a novel incorporation of weather, infrastructure and conflict parameters in the model. Our model also provides new information on the number of children seeking treatment and how this is influenced by the ongoing conflict. Despite the work of the national and local health authorities with th…
Pharmacists’ perception of their challenges at work, focusing on antimicrobial resistance
Background: The indiscriminate use of antimicrobial medicines has contributed to the development of microorganisms’ resistance to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health problem and is most acute in countries that have a weak health care and regulatory system and a high burden of infectious diseases, such as Bangladesh. Due to shortages of physicians available to diagnose and prescribe appropriate antibiotics, people …
Examining the need & potential for biomedical engineering to strengthen health care delivery for displaced populations & victims of conflict
Conflict and the subsequent displacement of populations creates unique challenges in the delivery of quality health care to the affected population. Equitable access to quality care demands a multi-pronged strategy with a growing need, and role, for technological innovation to address these challenges. While there have been significant contributions towards alleviating the burden of conflict via data informatics and analytics, communication techn…
Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf
Engineering, global health, and inclusive innovation
The recent drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals challenges the research community to rethink the traditional approach to global health and provides the opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, particularly engineering, to demonstrate their benefit to the field. Higher education offers a platform for engineering to intersect with global health research through interdisciplinary partnerships am…
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd., 1935–2016
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla toward producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in both Cipla's corporate archives and a wide range of oral histories. The article argues that, along with a long-standing corporate culture of self-reliance rooted in nationalism starting from the company's inception in 1935, major factors in Cipla's strateg…
Reimagining Refugee Camps
The existing model for health provision in refugee camps is not fit for purpose, especially for protracted displacement. As individuals are increasingly displaced beyond the temporary period for which camps are designed, it is critical that we reimagine care provision in such settings and give increased attention to individuals' dynamic and complex needs throughout their displacement. This Commentary reflects ongoing discussions from an interdisc…
Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf
Engineering, global health, and inclusive innovation
The recent drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals challenges the research community to rethink the traditional approach to global health and provides the opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, particularly engineering, to demonstrate their benefit to the field. Higher education offers a platform for engineering to intersect with global health research through interdisciplinary partnerships am…
Examining the need & potential for biomedical engineering to strengthen health care delivery for displaced populations & victims of conflict
Conflict and the subsequent displacement of populations creates unique challenges in the delivery of quality health care to the affected population. Equitable access to quality care demands a multi-pronged strategy with a growing need, and role, for technological innovation to address these challenges. While there have been significant contributions towards alleviating the burden of conflict via data informatics and analytics, communication techn…
Pharmacists’ perception of their challenges at work, focusing on antimicrobial resistance
Background: The indiscriminate use of antimicrobial medicines has contributed to the development of microorganisms’ resistance to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health problem and is most acute in countries that have a weak health care and regulatory system and a high burden of infectious diseases, such as Bangladesh. Due to shortages of physicians available to diagnose and prescribe appropriate antibiotics, people …
Benchmarking national action plans on antimicrobial resistance in eight selected LMICs
All NAPs were concordant with GAP. However, gaps exist in relation to M&E, diminishing the countries' capacity to be accountable and implement corrective action if necessary. Most lacked financing plans and targets for antimicrobial use reduction. The antimicrobial quality assurances strategies are limited in most of the NAPs assessed. A mechanism by which countries can benchmark their NAP would allow identification of specific limitations and ar…
A predictive model for healthcare coverage in Yemen
The model developed and presented in this manuscript shows a seasonal trend in the spread of diarrheal disease in children under five living in Yemen through a novel incorporation of weather, infrastructure and conflict parameters in the model. Our model also provides new information on the number of children seeking treatment and how this is influenced by the ongoing conflict. Despite the work of the national and local health authorities with th…
Waves of attention
This article uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to review 75 years of international policy reports on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our review of 248 policy reports and expert consultation revealed waves of political attention and repeated reframings of AMR as a policy object. AMR emerged as an object of international policy-making during the 1990s. Until then, AMR was primarily defined as a challenge of human and agricultural domains…
A mathematical model to estimate the incidence of child wasting in Yemen
The model-derived incidence rates, consistent with findings from other contexts that a global incidence correction factor cannot be sufficient, allow for improved, context-specific estimates of the burden of wasting in Yemen. In crisis settings such as Yemen where funding and resources are extremely limited, the model's outputs holistically capture the burden of wasting in a way that may guide effective decision-making and may help ensure that li…
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd., 1935–2016
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla toward producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in both Cipla's corporate archives and a wide range of oral histories. The article argues that, along with a long-standing corporate culture of self-reliance rooted in nationalism starting from the company's inception in 1935, major factors in Cipla's strateg…
We Wait for a Miracle
Mapping a Way to Displaced Persons’ Access to Quality Medicines
Reliable, adequate supply of essential items, including quality-assured medicines, is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries. Disruption of medicine supply chains delays treatment for displaced persons and drives procurement of poor-quality products, often from unauthorized or unlicensed sellers. This article explains how current strategies and policies disrupt reliable flow of safe medicines to refugee camps and ca…
Biofilms as potential reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in vulnerable settings
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, characterized by the ability of microorganisms to withstand the effects of antimicrobial agents. Biofilms, as unique microbial communities, significantly contribute to this threat. They provide a protective environment for pathogens, facilitate horizontal gene transfer, and create an ideal setting for the persistence and evolution of resistant bacteria. This issue can be particularly impor…
Infectious disease research in forcibly displaced populations
Mapping utility and applicability of research and ethics frameworks for displaced populations
Displaced communities face risks to quality of life and health, such as poverty, crowded living conditions, exposure to environmental contaminants, and poor access to healthcare, highlighting areas for research on the challenges they endure. However, these communities are routinely subject to extractive research practices with little regard to local participation or sustainability. To facilitate better research, there is a need for tools and fram…
Refugee Health Inclusion
This commentary examines how structural constraints shape health access in refugee camps. It stems from a recent workshop on refugee health and reflects an interdisciplinary, policy‐focused dialogue. We argue that humanitarian aid alone is insufficient. Instead, long‐term, rights‐based approaches are needed. Donor dependency, legal exclusion and geopolitical dynamics undermine access to care. These challenges create artificial divides between cam…
Reimagining Refugee Camps
The existing model for health provision in refugee camps is not fit for purpose, especially for protracted displacement. As individuals are increasingly displaced beyond the temporary period for which camps are designed, it is critical that we reimagine care provision in such settings and give increased attention to individuals' dynamic and complex needs throughout their displacement. This Commentary reflects ongoing discussions from an interdisc…
Highlighting the need for more holistic, participatory design of assistive technologies in displacement settings
Forced displacement exacerbates existing disabilities and can lead to the development of functional impairments, especially for women, children, and aging populations. Estimates indicate 15 to 33% of displaced individuals live with disabilities, but data remains limited. This perspective piece describes the current landscape of assistive technologies addressing physical, motor, and sensory disabilities in displacement settings. While some initiat…
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