SM Moazzem Hossain
Assistant Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health
Email: smhossain@unicef.org
             mh2678@columbia.edu

Dr. SM Moazzem Hossain is a Nutrition and Child Survival Advisor at UNICEF headquarters in New York City. He also holds an appointment at Columbia University as Assistant Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. He teaches a course on Food, Nutrition & Livelihoods for the Program on Forced Migration and Health and lectures in other courses such as Public Health in Humanitarian Action & MSC Nutrition at the Institute of Human Nutrition. Previously, he has served as Advisor for Nutrition & HIV/AIDS at UNICEF NYHQ, Head of the Nutrition Program for UNICEF in Pakistan, Head of Health and Nutrition Country Program for Save the Children UK in Bangladesh, Project Director of Adolescent Reproductive Health Project funded by EC-UNFPA, Public Health Physician at the Centre for Health & Population Research (ICDDR,B) in Bangladesh, and Assistant Medical Program Officer at Pathfinder International.

Dr. Hossain obtained a MBBS from Dhaka Medical College in Bangladesh, an MPH from Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium, and an MBA from CSM-Institute of Graduate Studies in Canada / USA. He has extensive work experience in emergencies settings and has interest in policy planning, health sector reform, health economics, child survival programming and capacity building for scaling-up high-impact cost-effective interventions. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Hossain also lectured at Aga Khan University in Pakistan and at several institutions in Bangladesh.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

SM Moazzem Hossain, L Richardson & K Sullivan, Health and nutrition surveys in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan, published monograph by UNICEF Pakistan, February, 2006.

Ian Darnton-Hill, Eileen Kennedy, Bruce Cogill, SM Moazzem Hossain, Solutions to nutrition-related health problems of preschool children: education and nutritional policies for children. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, 2006, 43 Suppl 3:S54-S65.

S M Moazzem Hossain, A Taylor, A Duffield, No evidence on the impact of a 60 million US dollar nutrition programme in Bangladesh? Ex post cross sectional survey, Health Policy and Planning, 2005, 20(1):35-40.

S M Moazzem Hossain & P Kolsteren, The 1998 flood in Bangladesh: is different targeting needed during emergencies and recovery to tackle malnutrition? Disasters: the Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management, 2003, 27(2):172-184.

S M Moazzem Hossain, A Bhuiya, S Rashid, Correlates of perceived malarial episodes and treatment-seeking behavior in a malaria-endemic rural areas in Bangladesh, Southeast Asian J trop Med Public Health, 2001, vol 32, No. 4.

S M Moazzem Hossain, A Bhuia, AR Khan, I Uhaa, Community development and its impact on health: South Asian experience, British Medical Journal 2004; 328: 830-3.

NU Nahar, S Afroza, S M Moazzem Hossain, Incidence of low birth weight babies in three selected communities of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin 1998; 24(2):49-54.

A Bhuiya, S M Moazzem Hossain, M Hanifi, A Aziz, Effects of an AIDS awareness campaign on knowledge about AIDS in a remote rural area of Bangladesh, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 2000-2001, 19(1): 51-63.