Researcher Profile

My research focuses on maternal and child nutrition. My experience with ongoing work is instrumental for the efficacy and effectiveness of nutritional treatment from locally available food ingredients for preventing and treating acute malnutrition in children. My current research involves the evaluation of a large scale nutrition program in Sylhet Division.

Selected publications include:

• Choudhury N, Ahmed T, Hossain MI, Mandal BN, Mothabbir G, Rahman M et al.. Community-based management of acute malnutrition in Bangladesh: Feasibility and constraints. Food Nutr Bull 2014;35(2):277-285.
• Choudhury, N, Moran AC, Alam MA, Karar ZA, Rashid SF, Kim P. Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMC Public Health2012;12:791 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-791
• Choudhury, N, Aimone A, Hyder SMZ, Zlotkin H. Relative efficacy of micronutrient powders versus iron–folic acid tablets in controlling anemia in women in the second trimester of pregnancy. Food Nutr Bull 2012;33(2):142-49
• Choudhury N,Ahmed SM. Maternal care practice among the ultra poor households in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative exploratory study. BMC Preg Childbirth doi: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/11/15
• Christian P, Shaikh S, Shamim AA, Mehra S, Wu L, Mitra M, Ali H, Merrill RD, Choudhury N,  Parveen M, Fuli RD, Hossain MI, 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. Intl J Epidemiol 2015:1-15
• Ahmed T, Choudhury N, Hossain MI, Tangsuphoom N, Islam MM, de Pee S, Steiger G, Fuli R, Sarker MSA, Parveen M, Jr West KP, Christian P. BMC Pediatrics. Development and acceptability testing of ready-to-use supplementary food made from locally available food ingredients in Bangladesh. BMC Pediatr 2014 Jun 27;14:164
• Ahmed T, Hossain Muttaquina, Mahfuz M, Choudhury N, et al. Severe acute malnutrition in Asia. Food Nutr Bull 2014 Jun;35:14S-26S
• Angdembe MR, Choudhury N, Haque MR, Ahmed T. Adherence to multiple micronutrient powder among young children in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2015, 15:440
• Ahmed SM, Hossain A, Khan MA, Mridha MK, Alam MA, Choudhury N, Sharmin T, Afsana K, Bhuiya A. Using formative research to develop MNCH program in urban slums in Bangladesh: Experiences from Manoshi, BRAC. BMC Public Health 2010;10:663
• Khatun F, Rasheed S, Moran AC, Alam AM, Shomik MS, Sultana M, Choudhury N, Iqbal M, Bhuiya A. Causes of neonatal and maternal deaths in Dhaka slums: Implications for service delivery. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:84. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/84