Researcher Profile

My primary area of research is clinical and community trials on infant and young child feeding, micronutrient malnutrition in mother and children, micronutrient fortification, biofortification and supplementation through different modes, management of childhood malnutrition and infectious diseases. I am also quiet proficient in conducting upstream research using stable isotope techniques to measure human body composition, breast milk intake, micronutrient absorption from food and so on.  He is also familiar in dealing with studies that collect data on human dietary assessment using both direct and indirect methods like, food frequency questionnaire, 12- and 24-hour recall, direct observation, making data analysis plan, working on food composition tables and so on. I have served as faculty on various international health related training including diarrhea and malnutrition in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Uganda.

Selected publications include:

• Islam MM, Ahmed T, Peerson JM, Mollah MAH, Khatun M, (MK), Dewey KG, Brown KH. Energy density and feeding frequency of complementary foods affects meal-specific food consumption and meal duration by healthy, breast fed Bangladeshi children. Adv Pediatr Res(accepted for publication).
• Ahmed AMS, Magalhaes RJS, Ahmed T, Long KZ, Hossain MI, Islam MM, Mahfuz M, Gaffar SMA, Sharmeen A, Haque R, Guerrant RL, Petri WA, Mamun AA. Vitamin-D status is not a confounder of the relationship between zinc and diarrhoea: a study in 6–24-month-old underweight and normal-weight children of urban Bangladesh. EJCN 2016, 1-9.
• Yoshimatsu S, Sugaya T, Hossain MI, Islam MM, Chisti MJ, Kamoda T, Fukushima T, Wagatsuma Y, Sumazaki R, Ahmed T. Urinary L-FABP as a mortality predictor in  5 year old 2016 children with sepsis in  bangladesh.
• Christian P, Shaikh S, Shamim AA, Mehra S, Wu L, Mitra M, Ali H, Merrill RD, Choudhury N, Parveen M, Fuli RD, Hossain IH, Islam MM, Klemm R, Schulze K, Labrique A, de Pee S, Ahmed T, West KP Jr. Effect of fortified complementary food supplementation on child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster-randomized trial. Int J Epidemiol. 2015, 1–15
• Osendarp S, Rogers B, Ryan K, Manary M, Akomo P, Bahwere P, Belete H, Zeilani M, Islam M, Dibari F, De Pee S. Ready-to-use foods for management of moderateacute malnutrition: considerations for scaling up production and use in programs. Food Nutr Bull. 2015 Mar;36(1 Suppl):S59-64
• Islam MM, Brown KH. Zinc transferred through breast milk does not differ between appropriate- and small-for- gestational-age, predominantly breast-fed Bangladeshi infants. J Nutr 2014; 144:771-6.
• Roth DE, Pezzack B, Al Mahmud A, Abrams SA, Islam M, Phillips AA, Baxter JA, Dimitris MC, Hawthorne KM, Ahmed T, Zlotkin SH. Bioavailability of enteric-coated microencapsulated calcium during pregnancy: a randomized crossover trial in Bangladesh. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;100:1587–95.
• Islam MM, Woodhouse LR, Hossain MB, Ahmed T, Huda MN, Ahmed T, Hotz C, Brown KH. Zinc absorption from mixed diets containing either high-zinc rice or conventional rice, with or without additional exogenous zinc, among young Bangladeshi children. J Nutr. 2013;143:519-525.
• Islam MM,  Khatun M, Peerson JM,  Ahmed T, Mollah MAH, Dewey KG, Brown KH.  Effects of energy density and feeding frequency of complementary foods on total daily energy intakes and consumption of breast milk by healthy, breastfed Bangladeshi children. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008;88:84-94.
• Islam MM,Peerson JM, Ahmed T, Dewey KG, Brown KH. Effects of varied energy density of complementary foods on breastmilk intakes and total energy consumption by healthy, breastfed Bangladeshi children. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006;83:851-858.