Researcher Profile

I have completed a urban sanitation study titled" study ''Using behaviour change messaging to improve communal toilets in Dhaka, Bangladesh" as a Principal Investigator. My major accomplishment is I have done the formative part of the study to identify the barrier for improved sanitation in urban slum and have developed a behaviour change intervention package to improve shared sanitation. I have submitted a manuscript from the data of this formative work in BMC Public Health.

I am working in Environmental Intervention Unit (former WASH research group) from 2009. I have worked on Point of Use Water Treatment study in Mirpur and I have a publication (from the data of this study)in Tropical Medicine and International Health as a co-author.

I have worked on a study on Waterless Hand Sanitizer in Kamalapur. I have a publication (from the data of this study) in Tropical Medicine and International Health as a co-author.

I am involved in many Water Sanitation and Hygiene studies. I am writing two manuscripts as first author and many manuscripts as a co-author. 

-  Awarded for Australian leadership award in 2013 and completed

Selected publications include:

• Yeasmin F; Stephen P. Luby; Ronald E. Saxton; Fosiul A. Nizame; Mahbub Ul Alam; Notan Chandra Dutta; Abdullah Al Masud; Dalia Yeasmin; Anita Layden; Habibur Rahman; Rachel Abbott; Leanne unicomb; Peter J. Winch.,  "Piloting a low-cost hardware intervention to reduce improper disposal of solid waste in communal toilets in low-income settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh." Submitted to BMC Public Health
• Luby, S.P., Kadir, M.A., Sharkar, M. A. Y., Yeasmin, F., Brooks, A., Unicomb, L., Islam, M. S., “A community randomized controlled trial promoting waterless hand sanitizer and handwashing with soap, Dhaka, Bangladesh.” Tropical Medicine &International Health 15(12): 1508-1516.
• Najnin, N., Arman, S., Abedin, J., Unicomb , L., Levine, D., Mahmud, M., Leder, K., Yeasmin, F., Louto, J.,     Albert, J., Luby, S., “Explaining low rates of sustained use of point-of-use water treatment technology: Evidence from follow-up of a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh”  Tropical Medicine &International Health