Researcher Profile

My research focuses on reducing communicable diseases, particularly reducing maternal and child mortality in developing countries. My research also focused on developing low cost hand washing agents and chlorination devices to improve health both in urban and rural communities.

I am also coordinating a project on reporting real time cholera/diarrhea incidence using "choleraphone" in an urban community of Dhaka. This expertise can be used to report real time child mortality from the community level.

I am also leading a number of projects including WASH-Benefit, Soil Transmitted Helminthes-re-infection, Spillover effects of WASH intervention and impact evaluation studies. I provide my support to hospital based hand washing and water treatment studies with other research groups.

My future works will be focused on mass media promotion of low cost hand washing agents, automated chlorination to treat water in schools, WASH promotion for disable person, and impact of oral hygiene on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.     

Selected publications include:

• Amin, N,. Yoshika S. Crider, Leanne Unicomb, Kishor K. Das, Partha Sarathi Gope, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, M Sirajul Islam, Jennifer Davis, Stephen P. Luby, and Amy J. Pickering, 'Field Trial of an Automated Batch Chlorinator System at Shared Water Points in an Urban Community of Dhaka, Bangladesh', JWASHDev, 2016
• Amin, N.; Amy J.Pickering; Pavani K.Ram; Leanne Unicomb; Nusrat Najnin; Nusrat Homaira; Sania Ashraf; Jaynal Abedin; M.S.Islam; Luby, S.P., Microbiological Evaluation of the Efficacy of Soapy Water to Clean Hands:A Randomized, Non-inferiority Field Trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg2014, 91(2):415-23.
• Pickering AJ, Crider Y, Amin N, Bauza V, Unicomb L, et al. (2015) Differences in Field Effectiveness and Adoption between a Novel Automated Chlorination System and Household Manual Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118397. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118397
• Amin, N.; Alif, S.; Nimmi, N.; Mustafa' E; Haque, S.; Khan, M., Evaluation of dental caries awareness among the parents of school going children in Dhaka city. Bangladesh Dental college Journal 2010, 2 (1), 21-26.