Researcher Profile

I am interested in maternal and child health, especially in the areas of child development and maternal and child mental health. Currently I am involved in a program of Transition to scale of an Early Childhood Development Program in Bangladesh aiming to see the feasibility of integrating nutritional care and psychosocial stimulation program in community clinics at grass root level in rural Bangladesh to  improve  children’s growth and development.

• Member of Bangladesh Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (BACAMH)
• Principle Investigator of “Effects of prenatal high-dose vitamin-D supplementation on early childhood growth and development in Dhaka, Bangladesh- a follow-up study”
• Co-Investigator of  “Transition to scale of an integrated program of nutritional care and psychosocial stimulation to improve malnourished children’s development in Bangladesh”

Selected publications include:

• Mehrin F, Hasan MI, Tofail F, Hamadani JD. Scaling up of an integrated program of psychosocial stimulation and early nutritional care of Bangladeshi children: Challenges and perception of the caregivers and community clinic health care providers. In: 1^st International Developmental Pediatrics Congress, Istanbul, Turkey. Oral presentation, December 3-5, 2015.
• Ali H, Hamadani JD, West, KP, Shamim AA, Hasan MI,Mehra S, Wu L, Shaikh S, Tofail F, Christian P and the JiVitA Project Team. Effect of Maternal and Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation on Cognitive Development of School-aged Children in Rural Bangladesh:  The CHETONA STUDY. In: 1^st International Developmental Pediatrics Congress, Istanbul, Turkey. Poster presentation, December 3-5, 2015.
• Takeuchi, Haruko, Al Fazal Khan, Mohammad Yunus,Mohammad Imrul Hasan, Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Sayaka Takanashi, Hirotsugu Kano et al. "Anti-Ascaris immunoglobulin E associated with bronchial hyper-reactivity in 9-year-old rural Bangladeshi children." Allergology International (2015).
• Takeuchi, H., A. F. Khan, M. I. Hasan, M. D. H. Hawlader, M. Yunus, K. Zaman, H. R. Chowdhury, S. Takanashi, Y. Wagatsuma, and T. Iwata. "Comment on IgE responses to Ascaris and mite tropomyosins are risk factors for asthma." Clinical & Experimental Allergy 46, no. 1 (2016): 178-180.
• Nazmul Kabir Qureshi, Raina Rahman, Imrul Hasan, Naseem Mahmud. “Association between risk factors of GDM and glucose challenge test status among urban pregnant women in bangladesh: a tertiary care hospital experience.” American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 2014;30.
• Nazmul Kabir Qureshi, Md Shamim Chowdhury, Imrul Hasan, Syeda Fahmida Hossain, Afsana Begum, Md Iqbal Hossain, Pradip Ranjan Saha. “Magnesium status in advanced stages of ckd in adults with diabetic nephropathy and association of HbA1c% with magnesium status.” American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 2014;30.