Researcher Profile

Piloting hand sanitizer intervention among healthcare workers and family caregivers in a tertiary level hospital in Bangladesh to improve patient safety and enhance infection control in resource-poor health care facilities. 

Outbreak investigation and communication of prevention messages following anthropological approaches.

Selected publications include:

• Parveen S, Sultana R, Luby S, Gurley ES: Anthropological approaches to outbreak investigations in Bangladesh. In: When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research. 1 edn. Edited by Cathy Banwell SUaJD: Elsevier Feb, 2013: 215-224.
• Islam MS, Hossain MJ, Mikolon A, Parveen S, Khan MSU, Haider N, Chakraborty A, Titu AMN, Rahman MW, Sazzad HMS, Rahman M, Gurley ES, Luby SP: Risk practices for animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh: an exploratory study. Infection Ecology & Epidemiology 2013, 3: 1-9.
• Sazzad HMS, Hossain MJ, Gurley ES, Ameen KMH, Parveen S, Islam MS, Faruque LI, Podder G, Banu SS, Lo MK, Rollin PE, Rota PA, Daszak P, Rahman M, Luby SP: Nipah virus outbreak in Bangladesh with nosocomial and corpse to human transmission. Emerging Infectious Disease 2013, 19(2):210-217.
• Gurley ES, Islam MS, Nahar N, Sultana R, Hossain MJ, Homaira N, Parveen S, Naushin T, Alam M, Khan AKMD, Chowdhury NMRA, Southern D, Luby S P: Behaviour change intervention to reduce caregivers’ exposure to patients’ oral and nasal secretions in Bangladesh: International Journal of Infection Control 2013, 9(2):1-9.
• Gurley ES, Parveen S, Islam MS, Hossain MJ, Nahar N, Homaira N, Sultana R, Sejvar JJ, Rahman M, Luby SP: Family and community concerns about post-mortem needle biopsies in a Muslim society. BMC Med Ethics 2011, 12:10. 
• Hadley MB, Blum LS, Mujaddid S, Parveen S, Nuremowla S, Haque ME, Ullah M: Why Bangladeshi nurses avoid 'nursing': social and structural factors on hospital wards in Bangladesh. Soc Sci Med 2007, 64(6):1166-1177.