Afrin Iqbal

Biographic Data

ID7752049
NAMEAfrin Iqbal
GIVEN NAMESAfrin
FAMILY NAMEIqbal
SIGNATUREIQBAL A
AFFILIATIONSInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
ORCID0000-0002-1859-8405
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Hypertension in Bangladesh

    Open AccessAfrin Iqbal, Md Mahabubur Rahman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Worldwide, hypertension is more prevalent among men aged 30 and older, but a national survey from Bangladesh shows a different trend. This paper explores the differences in hypertension by sex and age among the Bangladeshi adult population throughout their life span. Methods: We conducted the secondary analysis using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2017-2018. This nationally representative survey involved…

  • Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100

    Open AccessNatalia V Bhattacharjee, Austin E Schumacher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…

  • Changing paradigm of malnutrition among Bangladeshi women of reproductive age and gaps in national Nutrition Policies and Action Plans to tackle the emerging challenge

    Open AccessShusmita Khan, M Moinuddin Haider et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Objective: The main objective of this paper is to document the changing paradigm of malnutrition in Bangladesh and estimating how this is creating an intergenerational risk. This paper also examines national policy responses to tackle the silent epidemic of double burden of malnutrition. Methods: Publicly available datasets of five Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys were used to see the changing paradigm of malnutrition among Bangladesh wo…

  • Women’s participation in household decision-making

    Open AccessElizabeth Kirkwood, Jasmin Khan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    A key element of women’s empowerment is the ability to participate in household decision-making. This study presents the qualitative results from the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial baseline process evaluation with the aim of exploring the status of women’s decision-making at the trial’s outset and to facilitate the exploration of any changes in women’s empowerment over the course of the trial. Between January and March 2021, we conducted fo…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050

    Open AccessKanyin Liane Ong, Lauryn K Stafford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…

  • Demographic, socioeconomic, and biological correlates of hypertension in an adult population

    Open AccessAfrin Iqbal, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    In the coming years, a rising trend in hypertension in Bangladeshi adults is expected due to demographic transition towards older age groups and increase in overweight and obesity among the population of Bangladesh. With more women being hypertensive than men, a targeted approach catering to high risk groups should be thoroughly implemented following the Multisectoral NCD Action Plan 2018-2025. Acting in close collaboration with other ministries/…

  • Shonjibon cash and counselling

    Open AccessTanvir M Huda, Ashraful Alam et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The study has been registered in the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12618001975280 )

  • Bangladesh

    Open AccessSk Masum Billah, Shahreen Raihana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Bangladesh had a large reduction in childhood deaths due to diarrhoeal disease in recent decades. This paper explores the preventive, promotive, curative and contextual drivers that helped Bangladesh achieve this exemplary success. METHODS: Primary and secondary data collection approaches were used to document trends in reduction of Diarrhoea Specific Mortality Rate (DSMR) between 1980 and 2015, understand what policies and programmes…

  • Study protocol of a 4- parallel arm, superiority, community based cluster randomized controlled trial comparing paper and e-platform based interventions to improve accuracy of recall of last menstrual…

    Open AccessShumona Sharmin Salam, Nazia Binte Ali et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02944747 . The trial has been registered before starting enrolment on 24 October 2016

  • Production and use of estimates for monitoring progress in the health sector

    Open AccessKarar Zunaid Ahsan, Tazeen Tahsina et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: In order to support the progress towards the post-2015 development agenda for the health sector, the importance of high-quality and timely estimates has become evident both globally and at the country level. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: Based on desk review, key informant interviews and expert panel discussions, the paper critically reviews health estimates from both the local (i.e. nationally generated information by the government and oth…