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Dr. Nuhu Amin is a medical graduate with more than 12 years of experience managing and implementing research projects in Bangladesh. Dr. Amin is a doctoral student in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His doctoral research is focusing on “Towards safe sanitation approaches: fecal-pathogens and onsite systems in urban Bangladesh.” Dr. Amin is also currently working as an Associate Scientist at icddr,b, an international research organization based in Dhaka, and his current research focuses on environmental exposure of SARS-Cov-2 and Antimicrobial Registrant Bacteria in hospital wastewater. He also led a number of projects on humanitarian and Migrant workers’ health hygiene and wellbeing. Recently he completed a number of research projects including impacts of Liquid Propane Gas (LPG) distribution among the Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar. His work employs a range of quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods, randomized field trials, efficacy and effectiveness trials, environmental microbial assessments, technology developments, and laboratory evaluations. Dr. Amin received a number of national and international awards for his work including the “Prime minister’s hero” award for COVID-19 prevention in Bangladesh and the American society of tropical medicine and hygiene travel award for his innovations. Dr. Nuhu Amin is the inventor of the EaasiSoap (liquid soap) dispenser and “Soapy Water” (world’s low-cost handwashing soap) and co-inventor Zimba automated chlorination technology.
2021 - till date
Associate Scientist, Environmental Interventions Unit, IDD, icddr,b
Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2016 - 2020
Assistant Scientist, Environmental Interventions Unit, IDD, icddr,b
2013 - 2015
Research Investigator, Enteric and Respiratory Disease Program, Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), icddr,b
2012 - 2013
Senior Research Trainee, Centre for Communicable Diseases, icddr,b
2010 - 2012
Research Fellow, Program for Infectious Disease & Vaccine Sciences (PIDVS), icddr,b
2009 - 2010
Research Assistant, Department of Maxillofacial surgery, Shaheed Shurawardy Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka
2009 - 2009
Honorary Medical Officer, Department of Maxillofacial surgery, Shaheed Shurawardy Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka
2008 - 2009
Masters in Public Health (MPH), North South University, Bangladesh
2003 - 2007
Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Bangladesh Dental College
Under development
1) Amin N, Rahman M, Raj S, Ali S, Green J, Das S, DozaS, MondolMH, WangY, IslamMA, AlamMU, HudaTMN,HaqueS, UnicombL, JosephG, MoeCL. (2019) Quantitative assessment of fecal contamination in multiple environmental sample types in urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh using SaniPath microbial approach. PlosOne. 2019:723528. [Impact factor: 2.776]. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221193
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2) Amin, N., Sagerman;, DD, Nizame, FA., Das, KK., Nuruzzaman, M., Yu, J., . . . Ram, PK. (2019). Effects of complexity of handwashing instructions on adherence in low-income urban slums in Bangladesh: A randomized non-inferiority field trial. JWASHDev, doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.131[Impact factor: 0.977]. https://iwaponline.com/washdev/article/9/3/416/67927/Effects-of-complexity-of-handwashing-instructions
3) Yu, A. T., Amin, N., Rahman, M. W., Gurley, E. S., Rahman, K. M., & Luby, S. P. (2018). Case-Fatality Ratio of Blood Culture–Confirmed Typhoid Fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh. J Infect Dis. 218 (suppl 4), S222-S226. [Impact factor: 5.186]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30304448
4) Benjamin-Chung, J., Amin, N., Ercumen, A., Arnold, B. F., Hubbard, A. E., Unicomb, L., Rahman, M., Luby, S. P., Colford, J. M. (2018). A Randomized Controlled Trial to Measure Spillover Effects of a Combined Water, Sanitation, and Handwashing Intervention in Rural Bangladesh. Am J Epidemiol. 187(8):1733-1744, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy046. [Impact factor: 4.473]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596644
5) Delea, M. G., Nagel, C. L., Thomas, E. A., Halder, A. K., Amin, N., Shoab, A. K., . . . Clasen, T. F. (2017). Comparison of respondent-reported and sensor-recorded latrine utilization measures in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 111(7):308-315. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trx058. [Impact factor: 2.820]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29126213
6) 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) 6(3):32-41. [Impact factor: 0.977]. https://iwaponline.com/washdev/article/6/1/32/30417/Field-trial-of-an-automated-batch-chlorinator
7) 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 ONE10(3): e0118397. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118397. [Impact factor: 2.776]. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118397
8)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. [Impact factor: 2.564]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24914003
9) 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.Â
https://www.academia.edu/17169031/Evaluation_of_Dental_caries_awareness_among_the_parents_of_school_going_children_in_Dhaka_city
10) Salima Sultana Daisy, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, Ali Shafqat Akanda, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Nuhu Amin, Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen; Developing a forecasting model for cholera incidence in Dhaka megacity through time series climate data. J Water Health 1 April 2020; 18 (2): 207–223. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2020.133. [Impact factor: 1.683]https://iwaponline.com/jwh/article/18/2/207/72209/Developing-a-forecasting-model-for-cholera
