Mahbub Alam

Profile

Biography

I hold an MPH degree from the James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University, Bangladesh in 2013 and a Master of Social Science degree in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 2004. Having spent 13 years working in research and project management at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), I wanted to further develop my research skills and knowledge, and joined the EPSRC Doctoral Training Program at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds.

Record of Employment

2021 – present   Associate Scientist, Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b

2021 – present   Editorial Board Member, PLoS Global Public Health

2018 – 2020       Assistant Scientist, Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b

2012 - 2017        Research Investigator, Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b

2008 - 2012        Research Officer, Centre for Communicable Disease (CCD), icddr,b

Aug- Oct 2008    Research Assistant, Brac Development Institute (BDI), Brac University

Mar- Jun 2008   Field Research Assistant, Public Health Science Division, icddr,b

Awards

2021      Received Tsuha Fellowship at the University of Western Australia for the period 2022-2025

2019      Selected as Young Scientist by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2018      Certificate of award for contribution to Faith-based research, House of Lords, London, UK

2018      Outstanding contribution in reviewing articles for Public Health in 2018

2016      International Training Programme (ITP-301) in Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation –Integrated Processes- SUWAS 2016-17, at Stockholm, Sweden and Kampala, Uganda

2015      Travel award for oral presentation at Water and Health Conference, 2015 at the NC, USA

Funding History

2021      Evaluation of the Hygiene and Behavior Change Coalition for COVID-19 prevention in Kenya, Zambia and Indonesia. Amount awarded: $693,708 as Principal Investigator; Donor: LSHTM (PENDA/FCDO)

2021      Urban Sanitation Technologies as International Power Structures (U-STASIS). Amount awarded: $31,183 as Principal Investigator; Donor: Université de Neuchatel (SNIS)

2020      The association between child growth, disease morbidity and antibiotic use among children less than two years of age in Bangladesh: A secondary data analysis. Amount awarded: $170,000 as Co-Investigator; Donor: SIDA

2020      Multi-sector programme planning across food-nutrition, energy and water-sanitation for the Rohingya Crisis at Cox’s Bazar. Amount awarded: $41,269 as Principal Investigator; Donor: Institute of Development Studies

2019      Strategies for achieving sewerage connection in low-income communities in Dhaka. Amount awarded: $189,874 as Principal Investigator; Donor: WSUP

2019      WASH Mapping at Host Communities and Developing WASH Plan for Cox’s Bazar. Amount awarded: $254,743 as Co-Principal Investigator; Donor: unicef

2019      Identifying and overcoming barriers to sustainable school WASH in three Bangladeshi cities. Amount awarded: $89,419 as Co-Investigator; Donor: WSUP

2019      Impact assessment of WASH in school project. Amount awarded: $57,323 as Co-Investigator; Donor: WaterAid Bangladesh

2018      Identification of quality indicators of shared sanitation in urban Dhaka (QUISS). Amount awarded: $55,500 as Principal Investigator; Donor: EAWAG

2018      Assessment of household water treatment among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. Amount awarded: $78,890 as Co-Principal Investigator; Donor: Oxfam

2017      Assessment of fecal exposure pathways in low-income urban communities of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Amount awarded: $54,636 as Co-Investigator; Donor: Emory University

2017      Improve WASH facilities in RMG factories of Bangladesh. Amount awarded: $38,957 as Principal Investigator; Donor: The Waterloo Foundation, UK

2016      Evaluation of a faith-based intervention to improve WASH facilities and practices in the Muslim community of Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Indonesia. Amount awarded: $65,080 as Principal Investigator; Donor: Global One 2015

2016      Piloting menstrual hygiene management interventions among schoolgirls of Bangladesh. Amount awarded: $499,994 as Co-Principal Investigator; Donor: BMGF

2014      Using behaviour change messaging to improve shared toilets in Bangladesh. Amount awarded: $170,438 as Co-Investigator; Donor: Stanford University

2012      Bangladesh National Hygiene Survey. Amount awarded: $803,057 as Co-Investigator; Donor: WaterAid Bangladesh

Research interests

My research interest revolves around the emerging public health issues of Bangladesh and other low-and-middle-income countries. I am currently working on water pollution, urban sanitation, hand hygiene, menstrual hygiene, hygiene in the institutional setting, and environmental hygiene.

Qualifications

• MPH
• MSS in Anthropology
• BSS in Anthropology