Researcher Profile

My research interest includes gender aspects of health, violence against women and girls and consequences of violence on women and their children, and women’s empowerment. Currently I am involved in a project aiming to generate evidence in what works for reducing intimate partner violence and also work place violence against female garment workers. I am working with a project which aiming to see the impact of early life adverse exposures including maternal stress biomarkers and inflammation during pregnancy on stress and allostatic load, inflammation, telomere attrition, and health outcomes in children from rural Bangladesh. I am also involved with the 2015 national violence against women survey where icddr,b providing technical support to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in analyzing data and producing the national survey report. My other research interests include maternal and child health.

Member, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)

Report/working paper

• Mamun MA, Billah M, Mistry SK, Nicholls P, Dineen B and Nasreen H (2012). Maternal, neonatal and child health in northern districts of rural Bangladesh – profiling the changes during 2008-2010. Dhaka: BRAC and Ipact.
• Salam SS, Leppard MJ, Mamun MA and Nasreen H (2012). Men’s knowledge and practices of maternal, neonatal and child health in rural Bangladesh: do they differ from women? Dhaka: BRAC. (RED Working Paper No. 33).

Peer-reviewed articles

• Nasreen HE, Margaret L, Mamun MA, Billah M, Mistry SK, Rahman M, Nicholls P. Men’s knowledge and awareness of maternal, neonatal and child health care in rural Bangladesh: a comparative cross sectional study. Reproductive Health 2012, 9: 18.
• Nasreen HE, Nahar S, Mamun MA, Afsana K, and Byass P. Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum hemorrhage in home births in rural Bangladesh: how effective is it? Global Health Action 2011, 4:7017.