Researcher Profile

My research focuses on risk factors of non-communicable diseases eg; CVDs and Diabetes and preventive measures with special focuses on nutrition, physical activity and obesity. I have experience of conducting different research projects related to NCD that include community and health system based management of hypertension and diabetes; lifestyle intervention for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM); childhood obesity intervention; early life exposure to famine and metabolic syndrome; chronic respiratory diseases; indoor air pollution and its cardiopulmonary health effects; and nutritional intervention during pregnancy. I am interested in developing complex intervention to prevent and control childhood obesity in Bangladesh and non-pharmacological (lifestyle and nutritional) intervention for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases. 

1. Biswas T, Uddin M.J, Mamun AA, Pervin S, P Garnett S (2017). Increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in Bangladeshi women of reproductive age: Findings from 2004 to 2014. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0181080. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181080  
2. Biswas, T., Pervin, S., Tanim, M. I. A., Niessen, L., & Islam, A. (2017). Bangladesh policy on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases: a policy analysis. BMC Public Health,17(1), 582. 
3. Biswas T, Garnett SP, Pervin S, Rawal LB (2017). The prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in Bangladeshi adults: Data from a national survey. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177395. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177395.
4. Biswas T, Islam A, Islam SMD, Pervin S, Rawal LB. Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Bangladesh:  A Systematic review and meta-analysis. Public Health 2017, 142:94-101.
5. Finer S, Iqbal MS, Pervin S, Lowe R, et al. Is famine exposure during developmental life in rural Bangladesh associated with a metabolic and epigenetic signature in young adulthood? A historical cohort study. BMJ Open 2016;6:e011768. 
6. Alam, D.S., Talukder, S.H., Chowdhury, M.A.H., Siddiquee, A.T., Ahmed, S., Pervin, S., Hasan, K., Khan, S., Koehlmoos, T.L.P., and Niessen, L.W. Overweight and abdominal obesity as determinants of undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes in Bangladesh. BMC Obesity. 2016;3 (19). (DOI 10.1186/s40608-016-0099-z) 
7. Alam, D. S., Chowdhury, M. A. H., Siddiquee, A. T., Pervin, S., Ahmed, S., Hossain, M. D.et al. (2012). Adult Cardiopulmonary Mortality and Indoor Air Pollution: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study in a Low-Income Rural Setting. GLOBAL HEART, 7(3), 215-221.

1. Pervin S., M. Wang, A. Mamun, A. Naheed; Healthy eating and active living (HEAL): Feasibility and acceptability of implementing school based intervention to control childhood overweight and obesity in urban area of Bangladesh. (Abstract# 0618), Annals of Global Health, VOL. 83, NO. 1, 2017; January eFebruary 2017: 170 – 186.
2. Chowdhury PD; Pervin S (2016); Understating school children’s knowledge and perception of beverage consumption patterns in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ; The impact of food systems on nutrition, diet and health (Theme):; http://www.wncapetown2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/   
3. Pervin S., Naheed A,  Mamun AA, Wang M.; Healthy eating and active living (HEAL) guideline to control childhood overweight and obesity in urban area of Bangladesh- A school based feasibility study. Community health and nutrition programs (Theme); www.wncapetown2016.com/.../Sonia-Pervin_Healthy-eating-and-active-living-HEAL. 
4. Chowdhury PD; Pervin S.; Child obesity and sugar-sweetened beverage advertisement: Effects on school children's beverage purchasing behaviour and preferences in Dhaka, Bangladesh.. One Health EcoHealth 2016; http://oheh2016.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/OHEH-Congress-Proceedings-for-2016-1.pdf 
5. Alam DS; Chowdhury MAH; Siddiquee AT; Pervin S.; Ahmed S; Niessen L; Raising Awareness Leads to High Provider Visits and Blood Pressure Reduction Among Hypertensive Patients in Bangladesh - A Population-Based Cohort Study (Abstract P371); Circulation (Impact Factor: 14.95). 03/2013; 127(127):AP371. 
6. Alam DS; Chowdhury MAH; Siddiquee AT; Pervin S.; Ahmed S; Niessen L.; Prevalence of COPD and its socioeconomic and lifestyle determinants in bangladesh: preliminary results from a population based study.(abstract), International Primary Care Respiratory Group; Parallel Session 2a, 11.05-12.40, Gillesalen, IPCRG13-1168 01/2013.
7. Pervin S.; Alam DS.; Yunus M. ; Coverage of antenatal care and and its barrier in rural Matlab, Bangladesh (abstract); 13th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON XIII), 14-17 March 2011.  Dhaka: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2011:302