Researcher Profile

I am interested in health economics research, especially in healthcare financing issues, economic evaluation and equity analysis in healthcare. I am working on impact assessment of community based health insurance scheme in Chandpur, estimating economic burden of rotavirus illness, estimating national level healthcare financial protection indicators, cost-effectiveness analysis of Alive & Thrive (A&T)- infant and young child feeding initiatives and Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) programs in Bangladesh. Recently, I get involved in a systematic review study on immunization of hard-to-reach population.

Member of Bangladesh National Health Accounts Team

Health Economics Unit (HEU)

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW)

Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Selected publications include:

Technical report

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 2015. Bangladesh National Health Accounts 1997 - 2012.Technical report. Dhaka
• The World Bank. 2016. Fiscal Space for Health in Bangladesh. Dhaka (Forthcoming)
• Sarker B.K., Islam N., Ahmed S., Khan A.M.J. (2011). Cost of behavior change communication channels of MANOSHI: An MNCH program in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Manoshi working paper no-14. Dhaka, Bangladesh: icddr,b, BRAC.
• Sarker B.K., Higgins J., Mridha M. K., Ferdous J., Dasgupta S. K., Ahmed S., Khan A.M.J., Reichenbach L. (2011). Caesarean Delivery in Urban Slums of Dhaka City: Indications and Consequences. Manoshi working paper no-18. Dhaka, Bangladesh: icddr,b, BRAC.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Ahmed S., Hoque M.E., Sarker A.R., Sultana M., Islam Z., Gazi Rukhsana, Khan A.M.J. 2016. Willingness-to-Pay for Community-Based Health Insurance among Informal Workers in Urban Bangladesh J. Lane, ed. PLOS ONE, 11(2), p.e0148211.
• Khan JAM, Trujillo AJ, Ahmed S, Siddiquee AT, Alam N, Mirelman AJ, et al. Distribution of chronic disease mortality and deterioration in household socioeconomic status in rural Bangladesh: an analysis over a 24-year period. Int J Epidemiol. 2015 Oct 13 ;dyv197.
• Mirelman A., Rose S., Khan J.A.M., Ahmed S., Peters D.H., Niessen L.W., Trujillo A.J. 2015. The Relationship between Non-Communicable Disease Occurrence and Poverty - Evidence from Demographic Surveillance in Matlab, Bangladesh. Health Policy and Planning (Accepted on 04-Dec-2015)
• Razzaque Sarker A, Sultana M, Alam Mahumud R, Ahmed S, Ahmed MW, Hoque ME, et al. Effects of occupational illness on labor productivity: A socioeconomic aspect of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh. J Occup Health [Internet]. 2016 Mar 24 [Epub ahead of print]
• Szabo S, Hossain MS, Adger WN, Matthews Z, Ahmed S, Lázár AN, et al. Soil salinity, household wealth and food insecurity in tropical deltas: evidence from south-west coast of Bangladesh. Sustain Sci [Internet]. 2015 Sep 21;1–11.
• Sultana M, Sarker AR, Mahumud RA, Ahmed S. et al. Inequalities in health status from EQ-5D findings: a cross-sectional study in low-income communities of Bangladesh. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;5. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.06
• Sarker, B.K., Ahmed S., Islam N., Khan, J. A. 2013. Cost of behavior change communication channels of Manoshi -a maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 11(1), p.28.
• Khan, J.A. and Ahmed, S., 2013. Impact of educational intervention on willingness-to-pay for health insurance: A study of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh. Health economics review, 3(1), p.12.
• Sarker AR, Mahumud RA, Sultana M, Ahmed S, Ahmed W, Khan JAM. 2014. The impact of age and sex on healthcare expenditure of households in Bangladesh.SpringerPlus, 4;3:435.
• Ahmed S, Hasan MM, Ahmed W, Chowdhury MAH. 2013. Socio-economic Inequity of Malnutrition among Under-Five Children and Women at Reproductive Age in Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition and Health 1: 18–22. 
• Atiqul Hoque Chowdhury M, Mehedi Hasan M, Ahmed S, Darwin C, Sazzad Hasan M, Rabiul Haque M. 2013. Socio-demographic Factors Associated with Home Delivery Assisted by Untrained Traditional Birth Attendant in Rural Bangladesh. American Journal of Public Health Research 1: 226–30.
• Hasan MM, Ahmed S, Chowdhury MAH. 2013. Food Insecurity and Child Undernutrition: Evidence from BDHS 2011. Journal of Food Security 1: 52–7.