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 SM Moazzem Hossain
Assistant Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health
Email: smhossain@unicef.org
mh2678@columbia.edu
Dr. SM Moazzem Hossain is the Chief of Health & Nutrition Section at UNICEF Sri Lanka. 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 full 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 & Global Health Track. Previously, he has served as Advisor for Nutrition (HIV, IYCF and Child Survival) 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 an MD 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 in Aga Khan University at Pakistan and at several institutions in Bangladesh and currently lectures in Post-Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Kevin M. and S.M. Moazzem Hossain. Earthquake mortality in Pakistan. Disasters, 2010, 34(1): 176−183.
Kevin Sullivan, S.M. Moazzem Hossain and Bradley A. Woodruff. Mortality rate and confidence interval estimation in humanitarian emergencies. Disasters, 2010, 34(1): 164−175.
S M Moazzem Hossain, David M. Maggio, and Kevin M. Sullivan. Relationship between food aid and acute malnutrition following an earthquake. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2009, vol. 30, no. 4: 336-9.,
SM Moazzem Hossain, L Richardson & K Sullivan, Health and nutrition surveys in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan, published monograph by UNICEF Pakistan, February, 2006.
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.
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