Researcher Profile

The overall research goal is to develop and implement effective preventative and controlling strategies to prevent emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, considering the local context. My particular area of interest is research on zoonotic diseases, including avian influenza, Nipah and anthrax, and antibiotic resistance.

My recent and ongoing research topics include safe poultry slaughtering intervention to reduce risk of avian influenza transmission to humans; mobile phone-based early warning system; role of social dynamics in transmission of zoonotic pathogens—contact networks, mobility, and healthcare-seeking behavior among Bangladeshi poultry workers; community-based intervention trial to reduce zoonotic transmission of Nipah through date palm sap consumption; hospital-based intervention to improve hand-hygiene practices; use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. 

My research experience include communicable diseases, water and sanitation, mass psychogenic illness, Bahai community, midwifery and gender and violence against women in Bangladesh. 

 

Selected publications include:

• Nadia Ali Rimi, Rebeca Sultana, Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Najmul Haider, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Nazmun Nahar, and Stephen P. Luby. Where backyard poultry raisers seek care for sick poultry: implications for avian influenza prevention in Bangladesh. BMC public health 18, no. 1 (2018): 969. [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5819-5]
• Nadia Ali Rimi, Rebeca Sultana, Mushtari Muhsina, Baktiar Uddin, Najmul Haider, Nord Zeidner, Nazmun Nahar, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez, Stephen P. Luby; Biosecurity conditions in small commercial chicken farms, Bangladesh 2011-12. EcoHealth (2017): 1-15 [doi:  10.1007/s10393-017-1224-2]
• Rimi NA, Sultana R, Ishtiak-Ahmed K, Rahman MZ, Hasin M, Islam MS, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Nahar N, Gurley ES, Luby SP: Understanding the failure of a behavior change intervention to reduce risk behaviors for avian influenza transmission among backyard poultry raisers in rural Bangladesh: a focused ethnography. BMC public health 2016, 16(1):858 [doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3543-6]
• Nadia Ali Rimi, Rebeca Sultana, Stephen P. Luby, Mohammed Saiful Islam, Main Uddin, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Rashid Uz Zaman, Nazmun Nahar, Emily S. Gurley. (2014). Infrastructure and Contamination of the Physical Environment in Three Bangladeshi Hospitals: Putting Infection Control into Context. PloS one, 9(2), e89085 [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089085]
• Nadia Ali Rimi, Rebeca Sultana, Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Salah Uddin Khan, MA Yushuf Sharker, Rashid Uz Zaman, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Emily S. Gurley, Nazmun Nahar, and Stephen P. Luby. Poultry Slaughtering Practices in Rural Communities of Bangladesh and Risk of Avian Influenza Transmission: A Qualitative Study. EcoHealth (2013): 1-11 [doi: 10.1007/s10393-013-0885-8]
• Rebeca Sultana, Nadia Ali Rimi, Shamim Azad, M. Saiful Islam, M. Salah Uddin Khan, Emily S Gurley,  Nazmun Nahar, Stephen P Luby; Bangladeshi backyard poultry raisers’ perception and practices related to zoonotic transmission of avian influenza. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2012, 6(2): 156-165
• Ruchira T. Naved, Nadia Ali Rimi, Shamshad Jahan; Paramedic-conducted Mental Health Counselling for Abused Women in Rural Bangladesh: An Evaluation from the Perspective of Participants. J Health Popul Nutr. 2009 Aug;27(4):477-491
• Rebeca Sultana, Nazmun Nahar, Nadia Ali Rimi, Shamim Azad, M. Saiful Islam, Emily S Gurley, Stephen P Luby; Backyard poultry raising in Bangladesh: a valued resource for the villagers and a setting for zoonotic transmission of avian influenza-A qualitative study. Rural and Remote Health Journal 2012, Sep 4
• Rebeca Sultana, Utpal Kumar Mondal, Nadia Ali Rimi, Leanne Unicomb, Peter J. Winch, Nazmun Nahar, Stephen P Luby; An improved tool for household feces management in rural Bangladeshi communities.  Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2013; 18(7): 854-860 [https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12103]
• Mohammed Saiful Islam, Stephen P. Luby, Rebeca Sultana, Nadia Ali Rimi, Rashid Uz Zaman, Main Uddin, Nazmun Nahar, Mahmudur Rahman, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Emily S. Gurley (2014). Family caregivers in public tertiary care hospitals in Bangladesh: Risks and opportunities for infection control. American journal of infection control; 42:305-310 [doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.09.012]