A faculty member in Sociology/Development/Public Health/Demography/Communication/Social Protection with over twenty-five (25) years of demonstrated experience and strong research interests in Young Population, Child Protection, Migration, Health, Criminology and Community Legal Services, Social Protection, Education, Climate Change and Health, Disaster Mitigation, Vulnerable Groups such as LGBTIQ and Transgender, Transport workers, Mobile population, Mass media, Risk-communication, BCC, HIV/AIDS, TB Control, SRH,  STDs/STIs, RTIs, Family planning, Reproductive health, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, and other public health and communication issues. He has work experience with World Bank/IDA, EKN, BBC, FHI, USAID, UNICEF, UNFPA, UKAID, Action Aid, Concern WW, CIDA, Neilsen, BCCP, JHU, PSI, SMC, Save the Children Australia, Save the Children USA, Save the Children International, EEC, Sydney University, Western Sydney University, ARC-Australia, Michigan University-USA, Several Chinese Universities, UNSW, PIACT, UNDP, CARE, GFATM/Global Fund, BRAC, Population Council, ASA, 15 ministries of Bangladesh Government and so on. 

EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

1994 to date: Employer: Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Position: Professor; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

2007-to 2015: Team Leader: Joint collaborative project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka and funded by Australian Research Council (ARC).

 

January 2011 to 2013:  Employer: ASA University, Bangladesh

Position: Advisor and Program Director, MPH and Applied Sociology Programs

Duties: Teaching/Research

 

January to December 2005: Employer: School of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB); Position: Adjunct Professor; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

May 2005 to 2013: Employer: North South University, Bangladesh

Position: Adjunct Professor, GCE; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

1998 to 2002: Employer: School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Position held: Casual Academic/Tutor; Duties: Teaching/Research (Graduate/Undergraduate classes)

 

1999 to 2003: Employer: ABRC, Sydney, Australia

Position held: Consultant; Description of duties: Training/Research

 

1996 to 1997: Employer: Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Position held: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Professor; Description of duties: Teaching/Research

 

1993 to 1994: Employer: Department of Sociology, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh.

Position held: Lecturer; Description of duties: Teaching/Research

 

1992 to 1993: Employer: Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka

Position held: Staff Sociologist; Description of duties: Research/Evaluation of Rural Development and Health Projects of BRAC.

 

1989 to 1992: Employer: Mitra and Associates; Position held: Consultant Researcher, Health.

Consultancies/Publications:

 

2018f: Principal Investigator/Consultant: End-Line Study on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Related to Safe and Irregular Migration (in 12 districts). IOM and Nielsen, Dhaka.

2018e: Team Leader: Baseline survey on Inclusive Care and Protection for children affected/ infected by AIDS and children with disabilities (ICP). Save the Children International and Innovision.

 

2018d: Team Leader: Mid Term Evaluation of the Right Here Right Now Bangladesh. RHRN Bangladesh Platform Secretariat [Bandhu Social Welfare Society (Bandhu), Bangladesh (Host), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP), Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Boys of Bangladesh (BOB), BRAC (Education Program), Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH)- BRAC University, Naripokkho, Reproductive Health Services Training and Education Programme (RHSTEP), SERAC- Bangladesh, and United for Body Rights (UBR)], Dhaka and Rutgers, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality (CHOICE), Dance4life, HIVOS, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

2018c: Team Leader: Shokhi Impact Evaluation (SRHR). The Royal Netherland Embassy (EKN), BLAST, We Can, BWHC, and Marie Stops Bangladesh.     

 

2018b: International Team Member: Meta-Analysis on SRH Issues of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. Western Sydney University, Australia.

 

2018a: Co-Author:  Integrating human rights approaches into public health practices and policies to address health needs amongst Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review. Social Science & Medicine (Submitted).  

 

2017a: Team Leader: Understanding Stunting and the Common Characteristics of Households with a Stunted Child. Solidaridad Network Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2017b. Team Leader: Impact Evaluation Study of Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project-2 (PLCEHDP-2). Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Ministry of Planning Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. GOB and DTCL.

 

2017c: Team Leader: Baseline Evaluation of ‘Capacity building of Bangladesh Police: Need Based Training’. Bangladesh Police, GoB, Dhaka.

 

2017d: Team Leader: Feasibility Study of Rajanighandha Multipurpose Complex. Bangladesh Army, Area Headquarter. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2017e: Team Leader: Follow-up study on Impact Evaluation of British American Tobacco CSR Initiatives Afforestation, Safe Drinking Water and Solar Home System – SR-J2.880297. BAT and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2017f: National Team Member: Protecting Human Rights (PHR) Final Performance Evaluation.

USAID/Bangladesh, IDIQ AID-388-TO-17-00001; Task Order AID-486-I-14-00001, July 19, 2017

Julia Rizvi, Home Office Representative, Social Impact, 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 1000, Arlington, VA 22201, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Social Impact, Inc. Washington.

 

2016a. Team leader: “Child Labour Situation in Informal Sectors of Bangladesh.” FPAB, European Union, JOICFP, BCCP, Blast, Aparajeo Bangladesh and Nielsen.

 

2016b: Team Leader: Collaborative Learning Exercise on Human and Legal Rights in Development (HIRD) Project. Evaluation of Programs Targeting Sexual Minority Population (LGBT) in Bangladesh. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Social Impact, Inc. Washington.

 

2016c. Team Leader: In-depth Monitoring of Rural Livelihood Project (RLP). Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Ministry of Planning Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. GOB and DTCL.

 

2015i: Team Leader/Lead Researcher: Bangladesh Breast Cancer Awareness Study Phase 2. Sydney University, Australia and Dhaka University.

 

2015h: Team Leader: The living death of humanity: psycho-social, legal, and economic cost of Brothel eviction in Bangladesh, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), UKAID, Dhaka.

 

2015g: Team Leader: Impact evaluation study on “Construction of Monuments at Slaughter Places Created by Pakistani Hanader Forces during Liberation War of 1971 (2^nd Phase)”. Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division(IMED), Ministry of Planning, Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

 

2015f: Team Leader/Author: Enrollment in the Hard to Reach Areas: A Socio-Economic Situation Analysis. BRAC Advocacy for Social Change and Nielsen.

 

2015e: Team Leader: Impact Evaluation of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Area. IMED, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh and DTCL.

 

2015-16d: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Bangladesh, Baseline Assessment, IOM Dhaka, August 2015.

 

2015-16c: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Nepal, Baseline Assessment, IOM Nepal, August 2015.

 

2015-16b: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Pakistan, Baseline Assessment, IOM Pakistan, August 2015.

 

2015a: Author: Evaluation Study of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP 2^nd Phase) in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Area. IMED, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh (Published in both Bengali and English).

 

2014c/2015:  Team Leader: Impact Evaluation of British American Tobacco CSR Initiatives Afforestation, Safe Drinking Water and Solar Home System – SR-J2.880297. BAT and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2014b: Team Leader: Survey on the TB Care II Bangladesh Communication Campaign – SR-J2.880188. UNICEF and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2014a: Team Leader/Regional Research Consultant, IOM/UN. Health Vulnerabilities of Migrant Workers in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Formulated community legal services, national and international legal framework for migrants workers.

 

2014: Team Leader: Survey on the TB Care II Bangladesh Communication Campaign – SR-J2.880188. UNICEF and The Nielsen Company Ltd.   

 

3013a: Huda, M. N and Amanullah, ASM. (2013). “HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge among the Secondary School Students in Bangladesh: a Cross-Sectional Study”. Journal of Advances in Infectious Diseases, Vol 3, No. 2, Delaware, USA.

 

2013b: Team Leader/Author:  Impact and Effectiveness Study on Incentive Sub Component. SEQAEP, MoE and WB. Dhaka.

 

2012a: Team Leader/Author: Needs Assessment Survey on Daulatdia Child Protection Project, Save the Children International, Dhaka.  

 

2012b: Team Leader/Author of a Chapter: Survey on Children of Sex Workers and their Vulnerabilities to HIV Infection and other Social Violence, ULAB, Action AID.

 

2012c: Team Leader: Baseline Survey on Climate Asia Project, BBC, London and IRC, Dhaka.

 

2012d Int. Team Leader/Author: Breast cancer awareness and health care service utilisation among women in Bangladesh, The Asia Pacific Sociology Association Conference held in Manila, Oct. (With Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA.).

 

2012e Int. Team Leader/Author: Breast cancer awareness development among women in Bangladesh, Global Health Conference, held in Washington DC, June. (With Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA.).

 

2011: Team Leader and Author: Needs Assessment on School Management Study (SMC), SEQAEP, MoE, World Bank.

 

2010: M&E Expert: Research on Education Awareness and Community Mobilization (EACM), SEQAEP-PIACT, MoE, World Bank/IDA.

 

2009/10: Consultant: Needs Assessment on Drug Resistance Education through Formal and Informal Education in Bangladesh. GFATM, PIACT, MOH&FW

 

2010- to date: M&E Expert: Education Awareness and Community Mobilization (EACM),

SEQAEP PIACT, MoE, World Bank/IDA.

 

2009-2010: Team Leader: Documenting Good Practices and Capturing Learning of the LDRRF (Local Disaster Risk Reduction Fund) Projects, Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP), WB, EEC, ‘MoFDM, Peoples Republic of Bangladesh.

 

2007-to date: Team Leader: Joint collaborative project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka.

 

2008-09: Team Leader:  “Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and Practices (KABP) for HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Concern Bangladesh”. Concern Worldwide Bangladesh.

 

2009-2010: Focal Person/Consultant: “Capacity Building of GOs and NGOs”. Package GF# 913. The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: BRAC, Population Council and PIACT, Bangladesh.  Developed a legal framework DAC.

 

2008: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” Package GF# 903: “Integrating HIV/AIDS into Secondary School and College Curriculum as well as Dissemination of Developed Materials.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh. 

 

2008-2009: Author: “Hospital Waste management in Dhaka City: A dysfunctional KAP model” International Quarterly of Community Health Education (Published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-0430), USA. (Amanullah, ASM. and Uddin, J. 2008-2009. Dynamics of Health Behavior Regarding Hospital Waste Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Dysfunctional Health Belief Model, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Vol.29, No.4, pp. 363-380).

Research Grant 2008: O’Loughlin., Hossain, SZ., Poulos., Amanullah, ASM, Akhter, P., and Begum, SA (2008). Enhancing Knowledge and awareness of breast cancer among Bangladeshi women.  IPDF and FHS funding: $30,000

 

2007a: Team Leader: Arranging 372 Workshops on MCH and Reproductive health issues of adolescents. FP Directorate, Dhaka.

 

2007b: Author/Technical Advisor: Summary Report on Bangladesh Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS), RTM International, FHI and USAID.

 

2006a: Team Leader: Baseline survey for the 7^th country program action plan (CPAP) –2006-2010. UNFPA, NIPORT, MOH&FW and PIACT Bangladesh.

 

2006b: Technical Advisor: Bangladesh Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS), RTM International, FHI and USAID.

 

2006c: Team Leader:  “Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and Practices (KABP) for HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Concern Bangladesh” from February 2006 to March 2006.

 

2006d: Team Leader: “Post-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Adolescents and Youths on HIV/AIDS" from May 2005 to September 2005. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA, PIACT Bangladesh and Mattra.

 

2006e: Author: Bangladesh and HIV Epidemic: A Fatal Silence. Gender and Human Resources for Health in South Asia: Challenges and Constraints. University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada. Dhaka, 2006.

 

2006f: Consultant/Social Awareness/Community Mobilization Specialist: Bangladesh and HIV Epidemic: Delayed Marriage Campaign, FP Directorate, Dhaka, 2006.

 

2005a: Team Leader: “Pre-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Adolescents and Youths on HIV/AIDS" from January 2006 to April 2006. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA, PIACT Bangladesh and Mattra.

2005b: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” Package GF# 903: “Integrating HIV/AIDS into Secondary School and College Curriculum as well as Dissemination of Developed Materials.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh. 

 

2005c: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” “Pre-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Youth and Adolescents on HIV/AIDS” and conduction of sensitization workshop at national and local level under Package GF# 901 “Provision of HIV Prevention Information to Young People through Mass and Print Media for Campaigns.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

2005d: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Effectiveness/Impact Assessment Study of Social Mobilization for Awareness Building (SOCMOB-AB) Component on Behavioral Change”. UNICEF, DPHE and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2005e: Consultant: Bangladesh HAPP Baseline Survey 2005. BCCP-Johns Hopkins University and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

2004a: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey for Youth on HIV/AIDS and Other STIs”. UNFPA and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

2004b: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey on Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Target Population of RHIYA Project Sites Bangladesh-2004”. UNFPA and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2004c: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey for Focused Community Assessment of Adolescent Reproductive Health Communication Program”. BCCP-JHU and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2004d: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Survey on the Meena Communication Initiatives in Bangladesh 2004”. UNICEF-ROSA, Nepal and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2003a: Author: “Flaws in the Model: KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) Strategies to Identify Risks of HIV Infection Among Sex Workers in a Developing Country” (Abstract accepted by AIDS Impact 2001, England) 

 

2003b: Author: “Bangladeshi Female Sex Workers (FSWs) at risk for rapid HIV infection: Inconsistent and inefficacious usage of condoms”  

 

2001: Co-author: “Risking the Future: Unprotected Intercourse and HIV/AIDS Knowledge among Female Sex Workers in Central Bangladesh”. International Quarterly of Community Health Education (Published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-0430), USA. Co-authors: Prof. Ann Daniel, Frances Lovejoy, and S.E. Habib, School of Sociology, The UNSW).   

 

2000: Author: “AIDS Knowledge, Condom Use and Sexual Behavior among Commercial Female Sex Workers in Bangladesh”. Social Science Review. Vol. 17, No. 2, Pp. 147-159.

 

1998: Co-author: “The Reaches and Role of Mass Media among High Risk Groups in Bangladesh”. Social Science Review, Vol. XV, No. 1, Pp. 217-238. (Co-author: Prof. Ann Daniel).

 

1996: Author: “Sexual Behavior of Commercial Sex Workers in Bangladesh: A Sociological Analysis.” Social Science Review. Vol. XIII. No. 2.

 

Previous National/Regional Study/Survey Experiences:

 

1998a: Project Director and co-author of the report: Incidence of Divorce and Its Effects in Rural Bangladesh: A Socio-Anthropological Study. Dhaka University and the University Grants Commission (UGC), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

1998b: Expert: National Media Survey, 1998. Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)/USA, Social Marketing Company (SMC), UNICEF and ORG-MARG Quest Ltd., Dhaka.

 

1996a: Consultant: Diarrhea Morbidity and Treatment Survey. SMC, Dhaka and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1996b: Consultant and co-author of the report: First National HIV/AIDS and Condom Use Study. Social Marketing Company (SMC), Dhaka and Population Services International (PSI), USA and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1996c. Consultant and Co-author of the report: "Socio-Economic Background of Child Domestics in Dhaka City", Save the Children Fund Australia, Dhaka.

 

1995a: Consultant and co-author of the report: The 1995 National Media Survey (First national Media Survey in Bangladesh). Mitra and Associates, Dhaka and CCP/JHU, SMC and UNICEF.

 

1995c: Consultant and co-author of the published report: Clients Exposure of different Media on IEC activities. Mitra and Associates, Dhaka; Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, GoB; and World Bank Dhaka.

 

1994a: Consultant: Rural FP Communication Program Baseline Survey-1994. CCP/Johns Hopkins University and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1994b: Consultant: The Baseline Survey of the NGO Family Planning Services Projects of CARE- Bangladesh. CARE and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1994c: Co-author of the Village Studies Project’s (VSP) manual, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka.

 

OTHER CONSULTANCY/ACADEMIC WORK:

 

2011: Co-author and reviewer of a Text Book on Bangladesh Environment for tertiary level students.

 

1995: Sociology. A textbook (Bengali) for graduate and undergraduate classes (Co-author), Kathakali Printers, Dhaka.

 

1990b: Consultant in a study of drug addiction among the students of Dhaka University. Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka and Association for Social Advancement (ASA), Dhaka.

 

1989a: Completed an Advance Research Thesis on 'Social Change in Bangladesh from 1972- 1990 (A Marxian Analysis of the Political Economy of Bangladesh)’ as a partial fulfillment of Masters degree.

                                     

1989b: Consultant, Baseline Survey on Water Development Board Projects in Bangladesh (Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka).

 

1988: Prepared Honors Monograph on 'Urbanization in Bangladesh', Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka.

 

RESEARCH GRANT/SCHOLARSHIP:

 

• 1996, UGC Grant: Incidence of Divorce and Its Effects in Rural Bangladesh: A Socio-Anthropological Study
• 1997, The UNSW (Sydney) Grant: International Post Graduate Research Scholarship (A prestigious and highly competitive grant from the Commonwealth of Australia)
• 1998-2002, The UNSW (Sydney) Grant: Risk-communication (BCC), Commercial Sex Workers and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh
• 1999, Sweden-Bangladesh Trust Fund

Professor ASM Amanullah, PhD, BSS (Hons), MSS, PhD (UNSW, Sydney, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor: NSU, IUB and ASAUB

ARC Researcher, Sydney University, Australia

 

Currently Dr. A.S.M. Amanullah is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Dhaka.  Dr. Aman also taught at the University of New South Wales (The UNSW), Sydney, Australia and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was Staff Sociologist in the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR/WORKSHOP COORDINATOR:

 

• Conducted (being one of the key resource persons) an international seminar/workshop on Gender and Human Resources for Health: Capacity Development Through Education and Training. The workshop was jointly organized in October 2004 by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada and University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC).   

 

• Member, Steering committee, international seminar/workshop on Health Equity in Health System of Bangladesh. The workshop was organized jointly by CIDA, Social Development Policies Division, Quebec, Canada and IUB in May 2005 in Bangladesh.   

 

• Delegate and Paper presenter: XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada (August 2006)

 

• Paper presented on “Research methodology in social sciences”. The seminar was organized by South Asian Centre, Melbourne University, Melbourne, in 2000. Professor Andre Gunder Frank was the chair of the seminar.

 

• Paper presented on “Culture, Society and Health: A Grid-Group Analysis”. The seminar was organized by South Asian Study Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, in 2006.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2007.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2010.

 

• Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA. (2012) Breast cancer awareness and health care service utilization among women in Bangladesh, The Asia Pacific Sociology Association Conference held in Manila, Oct.

 

• Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA. (2011) Breast cancer awareness development among women in Bangladesh, Global Health Conference, held in Washington DC, June.

 

Key Note Speaker:

 

• Centre for Health, Population and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Seminar Series on Population and Development.  Title: "Cultural construction of sexual and other risk-behaviors relating to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh", December 2004.

 

• Centre for Human Security and Australia-Bangladesh Research Centre. Title: “Women and AIDS: Behavioral and Cultural Perspective”. Held at Commerce Auditorium, Dhaka University on 6 December 2004. 
• Paper presented on “Bangladesh and HIV/AIDS: A Fatal Silence”. The workshop was jointly organized in October 2004 by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada and University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC).

 

• Paper presented on “Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers and HIV/AIDS”. The workshop was organized in December 2001 by The Department of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Media Habits of Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers”. The seminar was organized in May 2002 by The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Dysfunctional KAP models, HIV/AIDS and Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers”. The seminar/workshop was organized in March 1999 by The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in May 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in July 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Education (MoE), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in September 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Information (MoI), Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Presentation of Key Findings of the result of Piloting of Curriculum and texts carried out throughout the country. The divisional workshops were held at Cox’s Bazar, Khulna, and Dhaka during December 2005 and January-February 2006.

 

• Paper presented in a series of workshops held in district, division and central level on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education”. The workshops were jointly organized during January 2005 to February 2006 by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), and Save the Children, USA and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Attended 20 TV programs (BTV, ATN, NTV, Channel I, VOA) on World AIDS Day 2004 and 2005 and discussed contributing towards a positive change in the approach, practices, and policies of authorities, service providers and civil society towards sex workers in Bangladesh, and a reduction in exploitation and discrimination against them.          

 

 

 

 

SEMINARS/TRAINING WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:

 

Attended various national and international seminars/trainings/workshops on:

 

• Development issues
• Young population
• Vulnerable population such as LGBT, Transgender and Drug addicts
• Mobility and Health
• Climate Change
• Social Protection
• Primary and Secondary Education
• Public Health Policy
• Community Legal Services and Policing
• Primary health
• Family Planning
• Diarrhea Morbidity and Treatment
• HIV/AIDS and Condom use, Cultural construction of HIV/AIDS
• Behavior Change Communication (BCC)       
• Research Methodology (Quantitative/Qualitative/RRA/PRA etc.)
• Applied Statistics in Social Research
• Priorities of Health & Environmental Studies of Bangladesh
• Shifting Media Habits in Bangladesh
• Research priorities in Health and Population
• Strategies of Rural Development
• Formal and Non-formal Credit Management
• Risk-communication

•     Child Domestics

•     Gender and Health Human Resources,            Gender Mainstreaming

•     Determinants of Fertility Control in Bangladesh

•     Adolescents Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh

•     Youth and HIV/AIDS and other STDs

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

 

•      Completed training on Summer Science Course in Anthropology organized by the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, April 1995.

 

•      Awarded certificates after successful completion of a training program titled “Research and Reporting of Scholarly Information in Social Sciences”, organized by American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), Pen-State University (USA) and Center for Development Research, Bangladesh (CDRB), December 1994.

 

•      Participated in ‘RRA and PRA Research Methodology’ and ‘Anthropometric Measures in Development Research’ training organized by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), August 1994.

 

• Received training on various computer packages such as Windows; PP; Microsoft Excel; and SPSS-PC+, SAS, Nudist, Epi-info, Etc.

 

 

 

LANGUAGE AND DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY:

 

Language                                      Reading                 Writing           Speaking

 

English                                           Excellent                 Excellent        Excellent

 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

 

1. Member, International AIDS Society (IAS), Membership ID: 26354
2. Member, NIH, USA
3. Member, Asia-pacific Sociological Association (APSA)
4. Member, UNSW Alumni Association
5. Founder, Amina-Atique Primary and Technical School, Bagunipara, Habiganj
6. Join Secretary, Bangladesh Sociological Association (BSA), Bangladesh
7. Member, Bangladesh Population Association (BPA)
8. Member, Dhaka University Teacher’s Club
9. Ex. Member SUST Teacher’s Association
10. Trustee, Amina-Atique Social Welfare Trust, Habiganj, Sylhet
11. Member, Association for Health Consumers Rights (AHCR)
12. Group Member, American Public Health Association (APHA)
13. Group Member, HIV & AIDS Network
14. Group Member, Global Public Health
15. Group Member, International AIDS Community (IAC)
16. Group Member, International HIV/AIDS Alliance

 

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

Australia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India

 

COMPUTER LITERACY:

 

Windows; Microsoft Excel/Access, PowerPoint, Ethnograph, Epi-info, STATA, SAS, and SPSS-PC+, etc.

 

Editorial/Advisory Board Member

• Journal of South Asian Studies; http://escijournals.net/JSAS.
• ASAUB Journal
• Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research. An official Publication of  Enugu State NMA, Nigeria.  (http://www.amhsr.org/editorialboard.asp)
• African Journals Online (AJOL) (http://www.ajol.info/index.php/amhsr/about/editorialPolicies)
• World Vision Journal

 

Some Web References:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Asm_Amanullah

http://www.ulab.edu.bd/CSD/publications/Leadr_chapter%204.pdf

http://news.priyo.com/2013/08/21/alarming-rise-drug-abuse-city-83715.html

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/02/06/17444

http://www.seqaep.gov.bd/PA/MSB_AC_V2_072013.pdf

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/asm-amanullah/21/ba0/834

http://centers.iub.edu.bd/chpd/associates/Dr%20Aman%27s%20Brief%20CV.pdf

http://www.bandhu-bd.org/report/Annual%20Report%202010%20of%20%20BSWS.pdf

http://www.bv-f.org/Editorial%20Board.html

http://www.asaub.edu.bd/notice/brochure.pdf

http://www.asaub.edu.bd/asaub_review.php

http://archive.thedailystar.net/campus/2011/11/03/newsroom.htm

https://www.concern.net/resources/mainstreaming-hiv-and-aids-bangladesh

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE:

Professor Ann Daniel PhD

School of Sociology, The UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Tel: 61-0407 526342; 61-2-6226 5328 (home); 61-2-9385 2608 (work) email: a.daniel@unsw.edu.au

 

Professor Mahbub Ahmed PhD

Department of Sociology, Dhaka University

Tel: 880-2-8616189

muahmed@du.ac.bd

 

 

Syeda Zakia Hossain PhD

School Behavioral Health Sciences

Sydney University

zakia.hossain@sydney.edu.au

With his diverse experience in research and consultancy in the development sector, Dr. Amanullah has worked not only as an academic researcher but also was involved in various research projects funded by different national and international organizations and universities. So far, Dr. Amanullah worked in more than 100 development and health research projects as Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI/Consultant. Dr. Amanullah was the founder Advisor and Program Director of Master of Public Health (MPH) department at ASA University, Bangladesh. Besides, he is a visiting professor/adviser at the North South University (NSU) and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). He has been leading a joint collaborative research project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated and funded by IRC-Australia, Sydney University, and the University of Dhaka. Professor Amanullah has published more than 90 scholarly articles, books, chapters, conference papers, and research reports at home and abroad. Recently two of his scholarly articles have been published in the International Quarterly of Community Health Education, published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Besides, he has published many original articles and research reports in scholarly journals and a dozen of his new publications are forthcoming.

 

To formulate a regional framework/policy for the respective governments, Professor Amanullah, as an international team leader, has just completed a Regional Study on “Health Vulnerabilities of Inbound and Outbound Migrants in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.” Professor Amanullah has the demonstrated technical know-how of writing government to government technical proposals and in attracting and implementing multi-million dollar projects in various development sectors.

 

Professor Amanullah did his BSS Hons. and Masters in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, and obtained Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Medical Sociology) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Being an IPRS scholar, Professor Amanullah’s PhD thesis was marked as one of the path-breaking research works in controlling Emerging and Reemerging Diseases/Infections by the mainstream Australian and International scholars and public health researchers. It is widely believed that because of his epistemological understanding and active participation in legal policy formulation, research, and community/media mobilization since 1994, though sitting in the hotspot of Asian AIDS pandemic, Bangladesh has averted HIV epidemic successfully. Under his theoretical guidance and academic leadership, Bangladesh government has incorporated a separate chapter on HIV and AIDS into the national curriculum of secondary and higher secondary education, technical education, religious education, and non/informal education sectors. Dr Amanullah played a key instrumental role in designing and adopting District AIDS Committee by the government of Bangladesh. He has travelled 63 districts (out of 64) of Bangladesh and trained more than 30,000 teachers, Core and Master trainers, as well as district level managers on the techniques of pertaining HIV curriculum in the class-room situation and sensitizing these sensitive health discourses throughout the general audiences and other stakeholders of the society.

 

With his long experience in teaching and research, Dr. Amanullah continues to provide insight, and add new dimension to the subjects against human rights, international legal framework, community legal services, gender perspectives, health, and education policy. His outstanding epistemological base in the discipline is unrivalled and his continued striving for attaining yet excellence is commendable.

 

Other Notes:

 

Dr Aman has substantial experience of more than twenty-five (25) years working in development, migration, child labor, health, environment, and population areas as a full-time faculty member and national level expert both at home and abroad. Currently he is teaching Mass Communication, HIV/AIDS, Demography and Population Analysis at the University of Dhaka. Dr Aman is a visiting fellow at the North South University (NSU) and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). He is also heading a joint collaborative project (as a team leader) on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka since 2007.

 

Dr Aman obtained his Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) (First Class First) and Master of Social Sciences (First Class) (MSS) degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has completed his full-time Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the School of Sociology in the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia on 25 October 2002. Dr Aman is an experienced researcher with about two decade’s demonstrated expertise in various fields of Population Studies, Medical Sociology, HIV/AIDS, STDs/STIs and other communicable diseases. In addition, he has higher-level current knowledge on Population Studies, HIV/AIDS, other contagious diseases and qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

 

He has fluency in English language, computer literacy, and analytical, training, negotiation, communication and advocacy skills, specially working with youth and adolescents, Female Sex Workers (FSWs) and their clients and other high-risk groups, such as Injecting Drug Users, Truck Drivers, and Professional Blood Donors with community based management and media interventions. He has long expertise in developing curriculum/BCC/educational/media resources and organizing national and international workshops/seminars in both home and abroad.

 

Dr Aman worked as a Project Director at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia during March 1998 to December 2003. He initiated and supervised an applied research project on HIV/AIDS transmission and associated risk factors among the Bangladeshi Sex Workers and their Clienteles in Dhaka, Mymensing and Narayanganj cities wherein he assisted to identify research, education and support strategies for the risk practicing population to minimize the transmission of the HIV viruses.

 

Dr Aman’s pioneering PhD research is the first in its kind that aims to explore a new paradigm in controlling the explosive outbreak of HIV/AIDS in South, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and many other developing countries. His study addressed some population and public health issues in developing countries and this work has already made a highly significant contribution to the academic understanding of the multifarious cultural influences on health practices and an important assistance to the planning of public health programs in many countries.

 

His path-breaking research has brought considerable honor to Bangladesh and himself. The Australian and International scholars have already marked his PhD thesis as a fundamental contribution to the traditional understandings of public health research and intervention. According to eminent Australian scholars, Dr Aman has made a true significant contribution to sociological/anthropological understanding of the force of cultural and economic conditions in shaping apparently non-rational forms of human behavior. 

 

According to Dr. A Kellehear (Director, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne), “This (Dr. Amanullah’s study) is a pioneering study of the cultural reasons for the failure of conventional rational-choice health promotion techniques for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh. …The findings of this study are undoubtedly generalizable to other poor nations, particularly in Asia and Africa, and will form the practical social basis for future policy changes to any public health response to 3^rd World AIDS”. He further noted that, “My hope is that his findings will make their way into UNAIDS and WHO literature so that education campaigns can begin for the health workers attached to these organizations and NGOs. I believe Amanullah’s work is the definitive, critical, scholarly work that puts paid to KAP/B research in the HIV/AIDS area. The practical and policy implications are important and groundbreaking and he is to be congratulated for the enormous amount and quality of his fieldwork. It is truly first-rate work.”

 

Professor ASM Amanullah, PhD, BSS (Hons), MSS, PhD (UNSW, Sydney, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor: NSU, IUB and ASAUB

ARC Researcher, Sydney University, Australia

 

Currently Dr. A.S.M. Amanullah is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Dhaka.  Dr. Aman also taught at the University of New South Wales (The UNSW), Sydney, Australia and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was Staff Sociologist in the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Professor Dr ASM Amanullah (PhD)

Dhaka University

 

 

Currently Dr. A.S.M. Amanullah is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Dhaka.  Dr. Aman also taught at the University of New South Wales (The UNSW), Sydney, Australia and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was Staff Sociologist in the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

With his diverse experience in research and consultancy in the development sector, Dr. Amanullah has worked not only as an academic researcher but also was involved in various research projects funded by different national and international organizations and universities. So far, Dr. Amanullah worked in more than 125 development and health research projects as Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI/Consultant. Dr. Amanullah was the founder Advisor and Program Director of Master of Public Health (MPH) department at ASA University, Bangladesh. Besides, he is a visiting professor/adviser at the North South University (NSU), Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) and Western Sydney University, Australia. He has been leading a joint collaborative research project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated and funded by IRC-Australia, Sydney University, and the University of Dhaka. Professor Amanullah has published more than 90 scholarly articles, books, chapters, conference papers, and research reports at home and abroad. Recently two of his scholarly articles have been published in the International Quarterly of Community Health Education, published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Besides, he has published many original articles and research reports in scholarly journals and a dozen of his new publications are forthcoming.

 

To formulate a regional framework/policy for the respective governments, Professor Amanullah, as an international team leader, has just completed a Regional Study on “Health Vulnerabilities of Inbound and Outbound Migrants in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.” Professor Amanullah has the demonstrated technical know-how of writing government to government technical proposals and in attracting and implementing multi-million dollar projects in various development sectors.

 

Professor Amanullah did his Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Medical Sociology) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Being an IPRS scholar, Professor Amanullah’s PhD thesis was marked as one of the path-breaking research works in controlling Emerging and Reemerging Diseases/Infections by the mainstream Australian and International scholars and public health researchers. It is widely believed that because of his epistemological understanding and active participation in legal policy formulation, research, and community/media mobilization since 1994, though sitting in the hotspot of Asian AIDS pandemic, Bangladesh has averted HIV epidemic successfully. Under his theoretical guidance and academic leadership, Bangladesh government has incorporated a separate chapter on HIV and AIDS into the national curriculum of secondary and higher secondary education, technical education, religious education, and non/informal education sectors. Dr Amanullah played a key instrumental role in designing and adopting District AIDS Committee by the government of Bangladesh. He has travelled 63 districts (out of 64) of Bangladesh and trained more than 30,000 teachers, Core and Master trainers, as well as district level managers on the techniques of pertaining HIV curriculum in the class-room situation and sensitizing these sensitive health discourses throughout the general audiences and other stakeholders of the society.

 

With his long experience in teaching and research, Dr. Amanullah continues to provide insight, and add new dimension to the subjects against SRH, human rights, international legal framework, community services, gender perspectives, health, and education policy. His outstanding epistemological base in the discipline is unrivalled and his continued striving for attaining yet excellence is commendable.

 

Dr Aman has substantial experience of more than twenty-five (25) years working in development, migration, SRH, child labor, health, environment, and population areas as a full-time faculty member and national level expert both at home and abroad. Currently he is teaching Mass Communication, HIV/AIDS, Demography and Population Analysis at the University of Dhaka. Dr Aman is a visiting fellow at the North South University (NSU) and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). He is also heading a joint collaborative project (as a team leader) on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka since 2007.

 

 

Brief Professional Resume

 

Professor ASM Amanullah, PhD, BSS (Hons), MSS, PhD (UNSW, Sydney, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor: NSU, IUB and ASAUB

ARC Researcher, Sydney University, Australia

 

Currently Dr. A.S.M. Amanullah is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Dhaka.  Dr. Aman also taught at the University of New South Wales (The UNSW), Sydney, Australia and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was Staff Sociologist in the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

With his diverse experience in research and consultancy in the development sector, Dr. Amanullah has worked not only as an academic researcher but also was involved in various research projects funded by different national and international organizations and universities. So far, Dr. Amanullah worked in more than 100 development and health research projects as Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI/Consultant. Dr. Amanullah was the founder Advisor and Program Director of Master of Public Health (MPH) department at ASA University, Bangladesh. Besides, he is a visiting professor/adviser at the North South University (NSU) and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). He has been leading a joint collaborative research project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated and funded by IRC-Australia, Sydney University, and the University of Dhaka. Professor Amanullah has published more than 90 scholarly articles, books, chapters, conference papers, and research reports at home and abroad. Recently two of his scholarly articles have been published in the International Quarterly of Community Health Education, published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Besides, he has published many original articles and research reports in scholarly journals and a dozen of his new publications are forthcoming.

 

To formulate a regional framework/policy for the respective governments, Professor Amanullah, as an international team leader, has just completed a Regional Study on “Health Vulnerabilities of Inbound and Outbound Migrants in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.” Professor Amanullah has the demonstrated technical know-how of writing government to government technical proposals and in attracting and implementing multi-million dollar projects in various development sectors.

 

Professor Amanullah did his BSS Hons. and Masters in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, and obtained Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Medical Sociology) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Being an IPRS scholar, Professor Amanullah’s PhD thesis was marked as one of the path-breaking research works in controlling Emerging and Reemerging Diseases/Infections by the mainstream Australian and International scholars and public health researchers. It is widely believed that because of his epistemological understanding and active participation in legal policy formulation, research, and community/media mobilization since 1994, though sitting in the hotspot of Asian AIDS pandemic, Bangladesh has averted HIV epidemic successfully. Under his theoretical guidance and academic leadership, Bangladesh government has incorporated a separate chapter on HIV and AIDS into the national curriculum of secondary and higher secondary education, technical education, religious education, and non/informal education sectors. Dr Amanullah played a key instrumental role in designing and adopting District AIDS Committee by the government of Bangladesh. He has travelled 63 districts (out of 64) of Bangladesh and trained more than 30,000 teachers, Core and Master trainers, as well as district level managers on the techniques of pertaining HIV curriculum in the class-room situation and sensitizing these sensitive health discourses throughout the general audiences and other stakeholders of the society.

 

With his long experience in teaching and research, Dr. Amanullah continues to provide insight, and add new dimension to the subjects against human rights, international legal framework, community legal services, gender perspectives, health, and education policy. His outstanding epistemological base in the discipline is unrivalled and his continued striving for attaining yet excellence is commendable.

 

Other Notes:

 

Dr Aman has substantial experience of more than twenty-five (25) years working in development, migration, child labor, health, environment, and population areas as a full-time faculty member and national level expert both at home and abroad. Currently he is teaching Mass Communication, HIV/AIDS, Demography and Population Analysis at the University of Dhaka. Dr Aman is a visiting fellow at the North South University (NSU) and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). He is also heading a joint collaborative project (as a team leader) on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women” initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka since 2007.

 

Dr Aman obtained his Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) (First Class First) and Master of Social Sciences (First Class) (MSS) degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has completed his full-time Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the School of Sociology in the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia on 25 October 2002. Dr Aman is an experienced researcher with about two decade’s demonstrated expertise in various fields of Population Studies, Medical Sociology, HIV/AIDS, STDs/STIs and other communicable diseases. In addition, he has higher-level current knowledge on Population Studies, HIV/AIDS, other contagious diseases and qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

 

He has fluency in English language, computer literacy, and analytical, training, negotiation, communication and advocacy skills, specially working with youth and adolescents, Female Sex Workers (FSWs) and their clients and other high-risk groups, such as Injecting Drug Users, Truck Drivers, and Professional Blood Donors with community based management and media interventions. He has long expertise in developing curriculum/BCC/educational/media resources and organizing national and international workshops/seminars in both home and abroad.

 

Dr Aman worked as a Project Director at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia during March 1998 to December 2003. He initiated and supervised an applied research project on HIV/AIDS transmission and associated risk factors among the Bangladeshi Sex Workers and their Clienteles in Dhaka, Mymensing and Narayanganj cities wherein he assisted to identify research, education and support strategies for the risk practicing population to minimize the transmission of the HIV viruses.

 

Dr Aman’s pioneering PhD research is the first in its kind that aims to explore a new paradigm in controlling the explosive outbreak of HIV/AIDS in South, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and many other developing countries. His study addressed some population and public health issues in developing countries and this work has already made a highly significant contribution to the academic understanding of the multifarious cultural influences on health practices and an important assistance to the planning of public health programs in many countries.

 

His path-breaking research has brought considerable honor to Bangladesh and himself. The Australian and International scholars have already marked his PhD thesis as a fundamental contribution to the traditional understandings of public health research and intervention. According to eminent Australian scholars, Dr Aman has made a true significant contribution to sociological/anthropological understanding of the force of cultural and economic conditions in shaping apparently non-rational forms of human behavior. 

 

According to Dr. A Kellehear (Director, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne), “This (Dr. Amanullah’s study) is a pioneering study of the cultural reasons for the failure of conventional rational-choice health promotion techniques for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh. …The findings of this study are undoubtedly generalizable to other poor nations, particularly in Asia and Africa, and will form the practical social basis for future policy changes to any public health response to 3^rd World AIDS”. He further noted that, “My hope is that his findings will make their way into UNAIDS and WHO literature so that education campaigns can begin for the health workers attached to these organizations and NGOs. I believe Amanullah’s work is the definitive, critical, scholarly work that puts paid to KAP/B research in the HIV/AIDS area. The practical and policy implications are important and groundbreaking and he is to be congratulated for the enormous amount and quality of his fieldwork. It is truly first-rate work.”

 

 

 

 

Professor ASM Amanullah, PhD

Member,

BSS (Hons), MSS, PhD (UNSW, Sydney)

Professor, Department of Sociology

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Adjunct Professor: North South University (NSU) & MPH Program, Independent University (IUB)

Founder/Program Director: MPH and Applied Sociology Programs, ASA University, Bangladesh

PhD Reviewer, Sydney University and Western Sydney University, Australia

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS:

 

Marital status: Married; Nationality: Bangladeshi; Health:        Excellent; Driver’s License:     Bangladeshi, Australian, and International; DOB: 9/2/65; Permanent Residency: Australian

 

CAREER SUMMARY:

 

A faculty member in Sociology/Development/Public Health/Demography/Communication/Social Protection with over twenty-five (25) years of demonstrated experience and strong research interests in Young Population, Child Protection, Migration, Health, Criminology and Community Legal Services, Social Protection, Education, Climate Change and Health, Disaster Mitigation, Vulnerable Groups such as LGBTIQ and Transgender, Transport workers, Mobile population, Mass media, Risk-communication, BCC, HIV/AIDS, TB Control, SRH,  STDs/STIs, RTIs, Family planning, Reproductive health, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, and other public health and communication issues. He has work experience with World Bank/IDA, EKN, BBC, FHI, USAID, UNICEF, UNFPA, UKAID, Action Aid, Concern WW, CIDA, Neilsen, BCCP, JHU, PSI, SMC, Save the Children Australia, Save the Children USA, Save the Children International, EEC, Sydney University, Western Sydney University, ARC-Australia, Michigan University-USA, Several Chinese Universities, UNSW, PIACT, UNDP, CARE, GFATM/Global Fund, BRAC, Population Council, ASA, 15 ministries of Bangladesh Government and so on. 

 

EDUCATION:

 

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of New South Wales (The UNSW), Sydney, Australia, 2002.

 

Thesis Title: “A sociocultural analysis of sexual risk and disease in a developing country: the                                           failure of KAP-based theories applied to controlling HIV/AIDS in the Bangladeshi sex industry”

 

Master of Social Sciences (MSS) (Thesis) in Sociology (First Class), University of Dhaka

 

Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) (Hons) in Sociology (First Class First), University of Dhaka.

 

Consultancies/Publications:

 

2018f: Principal Investigator/Consultant: End-Line Study on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Related to Safe and Irregular Migration (in 12 districts). IOM and Nielsen, Dhaka.

2018e: Team Leader: Baseline survey on Inclusive Care and Protection for children affected/ infected by AIDS and children with disabilities (ICP). Save the Children International and Innovision.

 

2018d: Team Leader: Mid Term Evaluation of the Right Here Right Now Bangladesh. RHRN Bangladesh Platform Secretariat [Bandhu Social Welfare Society (Bandhu), Bangladesh (Host), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP), Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Boys of Bangladesh (BOB), BRAC (Education Program), Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH)- BRAC University, Naripokkho, Reproductive Health Services Training and Education Programme (RHSTEP), SERAC- Bangladesh, and United for Body Rights (UBR)], Dhaka and Rutgers, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality (CHOICE), Dance4life, HIVOS, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

2018c: Team Leader: Shokhi Impact Evaluation (SRHR). The Royal Netherland Embassy (EKN), BLAST, We Can, BWHC, and Marie Stops Bangladesh.     

 

2018b: International Team Member: Meta-Analysis on SRH Issues of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. Western Sydney University, Australia.

 

2018a: Co-Author:  Integrating human rights approaches into public health practices and policies to address health needs amongst Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review. Social Science & Medicine (Submitted).  

 

2017a: Team Leader: Understanding Stunting and the Common Characteristics of Households with a Stunted Child. Solidaridad Network Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2017b. Team Leader: Impact Evaluation Study of Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project-2 (PLCEHDP-2). Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Ministry of Planning Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. GOB and DTCL.

 

2017c: Team Leader: Baseline Evaluation of ‘Capacity building of Bangladesh Police: Need Based Training’. Bangladesh Police, GoB, Dhaka.

 

2017d: Team Leader: Feasibility Study of Rajanighandha Multipurpose Complex. Bangladesh Army, Area Headquarter. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2017e: Team Leader: Follow-up study on Impact Evaluation of British American Tobacco CSR Initiatives Afforestation, Safe Drinking Water and Solar Home System – SR-J2.880297. BAT and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2017f: National Team Member: Protecting Human Rights (PHR) Final Performance Evaluation.

USAID/Bangladesh, IDIQ AID-388-TO-17-00001; Task Order AID-486-I-14-00001, July 19, 2017

Julia Rizvi, Home Office Representative, Social Impact, 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 1000, Arlington, VA 22201, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Social Impact, Inc. Washington.

 

2016a. Team leader: “Child Labour Situation in Informal Sectors of Bangladesh.” FPAB, European Union, JOICFP, BCCP, Blast, Aparajeo Bangladesh and Nielsen.

 

2016b: Team Leader: Collaborative Learning Exercise on Human and Legal Rights in Development (HIRD) Project. Evaluation of Programs Targeting Sexual Minority Population (LGBT) in Bangladesh. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Social Impact, Inc. Washington.

 

2016c. Team Leader: In-depth Monitoring of Rural Livelihood Project (RLP). Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Ministry of Planning Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. GOB and DTCL.

 

2015i: Team Leader/Lead Researcher: Bangladesh Breast Cancer Awareness Study Phase 2. Sydney University, Australia and Dhaka University.

 

2015h: Team Leader: The living death of humanity: psycho-social, legal, and economic cost of Brothel eviction in Bangladesh, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), UKAID, Dhaka.

 

2015g: Team Leader: Impact evaluation study on “Construction of Monuments at Slaughter Places Created by Pakistani Hanader Forces during Liberation War of 1971 (2^nd Phase)”. Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division(IMED), Ministry of Planning, Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

 

2015f: Team Leader/Author: Enrollment in the Hard to Reach Areas: A Socio-Economic Situation Analysis. BRAC Advocacy for Social Change and Nielsen.

 

2015e: Team Leader: Impact Evaluation of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Area. IMED, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh and DTCL.

 

2015-16d: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Bangladesh, Baseline Assessment, IOM Dhaka, August 2015.

 

2015-16c: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Nepal, Baseline Assessment, IOM Nepal, August 2015.

 

2015-16b: Author/Regional Team Leader: Health Vulnerabilities of Migrants from Pakistan, Baseline Assessment, IOM Pakistan, August 2015.

 

2015a: Author: Evaluation Study of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP 2^nd Phase) in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Area. IMED, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh (Published in both Bengali and English).

 

2014c/2015:  Team Leader: Impact Evaluation of British American Tobacco CSR Initiatives Afforestation, Safe Drinking Water and Solar Home System – SR-J2.880297. BAT and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2014b: Team Leader: Survey on the TB Care II Bangladesh Communication Campaign – SR-J2.880188. UNICEF and The Nielsen Company Ltd.    

 

2014a: Team Leader/Regional Research Consultant, IOM/UN. Health Vulnerabilities of Migrant Workers in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Formulated community legal services, national and international legal framework for migrants workers.

 

2014: Team Leader: Survey on the TB Care II Bangladesh Communication Campaign – SR-J2.880188. UNICEF and The Nielsen Company Ltd.   

 

3013a: Huda, M. N and Amanullah, ASM. (2013). “HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge among the Secondary School Students in Bangladesh: a Cross-Sectional Study”. Journal of Advances in Infectious Diseases, Vol 3, No. 2, Delaware, USA.

 

2013b: Team Leader/Author:  Impact and Effectiveness Study on Incentive Sub Component. SEQAEP, MoE and WB. Dhaka.

 

2012a: Team Leader/Author: Needs Assessment Survey on Daulatdia Child Protection Project, Save the Children International, Dhaka.  

 

2012b: Team Leader/Author of a Chapter: Survey on Children of Sex Workers and their Vulnerabilities to HIV Infection and other Social Violence, ULAB, Action AID.

 

2012c: Team Leader: Baseline Survey on Climate Asia Project, BBC, London and IRC, Dhaka.

 

2012d Int. Team Leader/Author: Breast cancer awareness and health care service utilisation among women in Bangladesh, The Asia Pacific Sociology Association Conference held in Manila, Oct. (With Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA.).

 

2012e Int. Team Leader/Author: Breast cancer awareness development among women in Bangladesh, Global Health Conference, held in Washington DC, June. (With Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA.).

 

2011: Team Leader and Author: Needs Assessment on School Management Study (SMC), SEQAEP, MoE, World Bank.

 

2010: M&E Expert: Research on Education Awareness and Community Mobilization (EACM), SEQAEP-PIACT, MoE, World Bank/IDA.

 

2009/10: Consultant: Needs Assessment on Drug Resistance Education through Formal and Informal Education in Bangladesh. GFATM, PIACT, MOH&FW

 

2010- to date: M&E Expert: Education Awareness and Community Mobilization (EACM),

SEQAEP PIACT, MoE, World Bank/IDA.

 

2009-2010: Team Leader: Documenting Good Practices and Capturing Learning of the LDRRF (Local Disaster Risk Reduction Fund) Projects, Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP), WB, EEC, ‘MoFDM, Peoples Republic of Bangladesh.

 

2007-to date: Team Leader: Joint collaborative project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka.

 

2008-09: Team Leader:  “Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and Practices (KABP) for HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Concern Bangladesh”. Concern Worldwide Bangladesh.

 

2009-2010: Focal Person/Consultant: “Capacity Building of GOs and NGOs”. Package GF# 913. The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: BRAC, Population Council and PIACT, Bangladesh.  Developed a legal framework DAC.

 

2008: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” Package GF# 903: “Integrating HIV/AIDS into Secondary School and College Curriculum as well as Dissemination of Developed Materials.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh. 

 

2008-2009: Author: “Hospital Waste management in Dhaka City: A dysfunctional KAP model” International Quarterly of Community Health Education (Published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-0430), USA. (Amanullah, ASM. and Uddin, J. 2008-2009. Dynamics of Health Behavior Regarding Hospital Waste Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Dysfunctional Health Belief Model, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Vol.29, No.4, pp. 363-380).

Research Grant 2008: O’Loughlin., Hossain, SZ., Poulos., Amanullah, ASM, Akhter, P., and Begum, SA (2008). Enhancing Knowledge and awareness of breast cancer among Bangladeshi women.  IPDF and FHS funding: $30,000

 

2007a: Team Leader: Arranging 372 Workshops on MCH and Reproductive health issues of adolescents. FP Directorate, Dhaka.

 

2007b: Author/Technical Advisor: Summary Report on Bangladesh Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS), RTM International, FHI and USAID.

 

2006a: Team Leader: Baseline survey for the 7^th country program action plan (CPAP) –2006-2010. UNFPA, NIPORT, MOH&FW and PIACT Bangladesh.

 

2006b: Technical Advisor: Bangladesh Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS), RTM International, FHI and USAID.

 

2006c: Team Leader:  “Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and Practices (KABP) for HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Concern Bangladesh” from February 2006 to March 2006.

 

2006d: Team Leader: “Post-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Adolescents and Youths on HIV/AIDS" from May 2005 to September 2005. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA, PIACT Bangladesh and Mattra.

 

2006e: Author: Bangladesh and HIV Epidemic: A Fatal Silence. Gender and Human Resources for Health in South Asia: Challenges and Constraints. University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada. Dhaka, 2006.

 

2006f: Consultant/Social Awareness/Community Mobilization Specialist: Bangladesh and HIV Epidemic: Delayed Marriage Campaign, FP Directorate, Dhaka, 2006.

 

2005a: Team Leader: “Pre-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Adolescents and Youths on HIV/AIDS" from January 2006 to April 2006. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA, PIACT Bangladesh and Mattra.

2005b: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” Package GF# 903: “Integrating HIV/AIDS into Secondary School and College Curriculum as well as Dissemination of Developed Materials.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh. 

 

2005c: HIV/AIDS Expert: “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh.” “Pre-intervention Audience Impact Survey for Youth and Adolescents on HIV/AIDS” and conduction of sensitization workshop at national and local level under Package GF# 901 “Provision of HIV Prevention Information to Young People through Mass and Print Media for Campaigns.” The project is sponsored by GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children Fund, USA. Implementing Agency: PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

2005d: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Effectiveness/Impact Assessment Study of Social Mobilization for Awareness Building (SOCMOB-AB) Component on Behavioral Change”. UNICEF, DPHE and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2005e: Consultant: Bangladesh HAPP Baseline Survey 2005. BCCP-Johns Hopkins University and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

2004a: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey for Youth on HIV/AIDS and Other STIs”. UNFPA and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

2004b: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey on Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Target Population of RHIYA Project Sites Bangladesh-2004”. UNFPA and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2004c: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Baseline Survey for Focused Community Assessment of Adolescent Reproductive Health Communication Program”. BCCP-JHU and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2004d: Consultant and co-author of the report: “Survey on the Meena Communication Initiatives in Bangladesh 2004”. UNICEF-ROSA, Nepal and the Center for Social Research, ACNielsen Bangladesh.

 

2003a: Author: “Flaws in the Model: KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) Strategies to Identify Risks of HIV Infection Among Sex Workers in a Developing Country” (Abstract accepted by AIDS Impact 2001, England) 

 

2003b: Author: “Bangladeshi Female Sex Workers (FSWs) at risk for rapid HIV infection: Inconsistent and inefficacious usage of condoms”  

 

2001: Co-author: “Risking the Future: Unprotected Intercourse and HIV/AIDS Knowledge among Female Sex Workers in Central Bangladesh”. International Quarterly of Community Health Education (Published by Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-0430), USA. Co-authors: Prof. Ann Daniel, Frances Lovejoy, and S.E. Habib, School of Sociology, The UNSW).   

 

2000: Author: “AIDS Knowledge, Condom Use and Sexual Behavior among Commercial Female Sex Workers in Bangladesh”. Social Science Review. Vol. 17, No. 2, Pp. 147-159.

 

1998: Co-author: “The Reaches and Role of Mass Media among High Risk Groups in Bangladesh”. Social Science Review, Vol. XV, No. 1, Pp. 217-238. (Co-author: Prof. Ann Daniel).

 

1996: Author: “Sexual Behavior of Commercial Sex Workers in Bangladesh: A Sociological Analysis.” Social Science Review. Vol. XIII. No. 2.

 

Previous National/Regional Study/Survey Experiences:

 

1998a: Project Director and co-author of the report: Incidence of Divorce and Its Effects in Rural Bangladesh: A Socio-Anthropological Study. Dhaka University and the University Grants Commission (UGC), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

1998b: Expert: National Media Survey, 1998. Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)/USA, Social Marketing Company (SMC), UNICEF and ORG-MARG Quest Ltd., Dhaka.

 

1996a: Consultant: Diarrhea Morbidity and Treatment Survey. SMC, Dhaka and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1996b: Consultant and co-author of the report: First National HIV/AIDS and Condom Use Study. Social Marketing Company (SMC), Dhaka and Population Services International (PSI), USA and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1996c. Consultant and Co-author of the report: "Socio-Economic Background of Child Domestics in Dhaka City", Save the Children Fund Australia, Dhaka.

 

1995a: Consultant and co-author of the report: The 1995 National Media Survey (First national Media Survey in Bangladesh). Mitra and Associates, Dhaka and CCP/JHU, SMC and UNICEF.

 

1995c: Consultant and co-author of the published report: Clients Exposure of different Media on IEC activities. Mitra and Associates, Dhaka; Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, GoB; and World Bank Dhaka.

 

1994a: Consultant: Rural FP Communication Program Baseline Survey-1994. CCP/Johns Hopkins University and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1994b: Consultant: The Baseline Survey of the NGO Family Planning Services Projects of CARE- Bangladesh. CARE and Mitra and Associates, Dhaka.

 

1994c: Co-author of the Village Studies Project’s (VSP) manual, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka.

 

OTHER CONSULTANCY/ACADEMIC WORK:

 

2011: Co-author and reviewer of a Text Book on Bangladesh Environment for tertiary level students.

 

1995: Sociology. A textbook (Bengali) for graduate and undergraduate classes (Co-author), Kathakali Printers, Dhaka.

 

1990b: Consultant in a study of drug addiction among the students of Dhaka University. Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka and Association for Social Advancement (ASA), Dhaka.

 

1989a: Completed an Advance Research Thesis on 'Social Change in Bangladesh from 1972- 1990 (A Marxian Analysis of the Political Economy of Bangladesh)’ as a partial fulfillment of Masters degree.

                                     

1989b: Consultant, Baseline Survey on Water Development Board Projects in Bangladesh (Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka).

 

1988: Prepared Honors Monograph on 'Urbanization in Bangladesh', Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka.

 

RESEARCH GRANT/SCHOLARSHIP:

 

• 1996, UGC Grant: Incidence of Divorce and Its Effects in Rural Bangladesh: A Socio-Anthropological Study
• 1997, The UNSW (Sydney) Grant: International Post Graduate Research Scholarship (A prestigious and highly competitive grant from the Commonwealth of Australia)
• 1998-2002, The UNSW (Sydney) Grant: Risk-communication (BCC), Commercial Sex Workers and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh
• 1999, Sweden-Bangladesh Trust Fund

 

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR/WORKSHOP COORDINATOR:

 

• Conducted (being one of the key resource persons) an international seminar/workshop on Gender and Human Resources for Health: Capacity Development Through Education and Training. The workshop was jointly organized in October 2004 by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada and University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC).   

 

• Member, Steering committee, international seminar/workshop on Health Equity in Health System of Bangladesh. The workshop was organized jointly by CIDA, Social Development Policies Division, Quebec, Canada and IUB in May 2005 in Bangladesh.   

 

• Delegate and Paper presenter: XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada (August 2006)

 

• Paper presented on “Research methodology in social sciences”. The seminar was organized by South Asian Centre, Melbourne University, Melbourne, in 2000. Professor Andre Gunder Frank was the chair of the seminar.

 

• Paper presented on “Culture, Society and Health: A Grid-Group Analysis”. The seminar was organized by South Asian Study Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, in 2006.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2007.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

 

• Paper presented on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2010.

 

• Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA. (2012) Breast cancer awareness and health care service utilization among women in Bangladesh, The Asia Pacific Sociology Association Conference held in Manila, Oct.

 

• Hossain, S.Z., O’Loughlin, K., Polous, A., Amanullah, SAM., Akther, PS., and Begum. SA. (2011) Breast cancer awareness development among women in Bangladesh, Global Health Conference, held in Washington DC, June.

 

Key Note Speaker:

 

• Centre for Health, Population and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Seminar Series on Population and Development.  Title: "Cultural construction of sexual and other risk-behaviors relating to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh", December 2004.

 

• Centre for Human Security and Australia-Bangladesh Research Centre. Title: “Women and AIDS: Behavioral and Cultural Perspective”. Held at Commerce Auditorium, Dhaka University on 6 December 2004. 
• Paper presented on “Bangladesh and HIV/AIDS: A Fatal Silence”. The workshop was jointly organized in October 2004 by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada and University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC).

 

• Paper presented on “Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers and HIV/AIDS”. The workshop was organized in December 2001 by The Department of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Media Habits of Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers”. The seminar was organized in May 2002 by The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Dysfunctional KAP models, HIV/AIDS and Bangladeshi Commercial Sex Workers”. The seminar/workshop was organized in March 1999 by The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in May 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in July 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Education (MoE), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Paper presented on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education” under a Global Fund Project “Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Youths and Adolescents in Bangladesh” Package GF# 903. The workshop was jointly organized in September 2005 by the National AIDS and STD Program (NASP), Ministry of Information (MoI), Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Save the Children, USA, and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Presentation of Key Findings of the result of Piloting of Curriculum and texts carried out throughout the country. The divisional workshops were held at Cox’s Bazar, Khulna, and Dhaka during December 2005 and January-February 2006.

 

• Paper presented in a series of workshops held in district, division and central level on “Current Situation of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh” and the importance of “Integration of HIV/AIDS information into Secondary and Higher Secondary Education”. The workshops were jointly organized during January 2005 to February 2006 by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), and Save the Children, USA and PIACT, Bangladesh.

 

• Attended 20 TV programs (BTV, ATN, NTV, Channel I, VOA) on World AIDS Day 2004 and 2005 and discussed contributing towards a positive change in the approach, practices, and policies of authorities, service providers and civil society towards sex workers in Bangladesh, and a reduction in exploitation and discrimination against them.          

 

 

EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

1994 to date: Employer: Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Position: Professor; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

2007-to 2015: Team Leader: Joint collaborative project on “Breast Cancer Awareness among Bangladeshi Women”, initiated by Sydney University and the University of Dhaka and funded by Australian Research Council (ARC).

 

January 2011 to 2013:  Employer: ASA University, Bangladesh

Position: Advisor and Program Director, MPH and Applied Sociology Programs

Duties: Teaching/Research

 

January to December 2005: Employer: School of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB); Position: Adjunct Professor; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

May 2005 to 2013: Employer: North South University, Bangladesh

Position: Adjunct Professor, GCE; Duties: Teaching/Research

 

1998 to 2002: Employer: School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Position held: Casual Academic/Tutor; Duties: Teaching/Research (Graduate/Undergraduate classes)

 

1999 to 2003: Employer: ABRC, Sydney, Australia

Position held: Consultant; Description of duties: Training/Research

 

1996 to 1997: Employer: Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Position held: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Professor; Description of duties: Teaching/Research

 

1993 to 1994: Employer: Department of Sociology, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh.

Position held: Lecturer; Description of duties: Teaching/Research

 

1992 to 1993: Employer: Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC, Dhaka

Position held: Staff Sociologist; Description of duties: Research/Evaluation of Rural Development and Health Projects of BRAC.

 

1989 to 1992: Employer: Mitra and Associates; Position held: Consultant Researcher, Health.

 

 

SEMINARS/TRAINING WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:

 

Attended various national and international seminars/trainings/workshops on:

 

• Development issues
• Young population
• Vulnerable population such as LGBT, Transgender and Drug addicts
• Mobility and Health
• Climate Change
• Social Protection
• Primary and Secondary Education
• Public Health Policy
• Community Legal Services and Policing
• Primary health
• Family Planning
• Diarrhea Morbidity and Treatment
• HIV/AIDS and Condom use, Cultural construction of HIV/AIDS
• Behavior Change Communication (BCC)       
• Research Methodology (Quantitative/Qualitative/RRA/PRA etc.)
• Applied Statistics in Social Research
• Priorities of Health & Environmental Studies of Bangladesh
• Shifting Media Habits in Bangladesh
• Research priorities in Health and Population
• Strategies of Rural Development
• Formal and Non-formal Credit Management
• Risk-communication

•     Child Domestics

•     Gender and Health Human Resources,            Gender Mainstreaming

•     Determinants of Fertility Control in Bangladesh

•     Adolescents Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh

•     Youth and HIV/AIDS and other STDs

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

 

•      Completed training on Summer Science Course in Anthropology organized by the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, April 1995.

 

•      Awarded certificates after successful completion of a training program titled “Research and Reporting of Scholarly Information in Social Sciences”, organized by American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), Pen-State University (USA) and Center for Development Research, Bangladesh (CDRB), December 1994.

 

•      Participated in ‘RRA and PRA Research Methodology’ and ‘Anthropometric Measures in Development Research’ training organized by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), August 1994.

 

• Received training on various computer packages such as Windows; PP; Microsoft Excel; and SPSS-PC+, SAS, Nudist, Epi-info, Etc.

 

 

 

LANGUAGE AND DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY:

 

Language                                      Reading                 Writing           Speaking

 

English                                           Excellent                 Excellent        Excellent

 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

 

1. Member, International AIDS Society (IAS), Membership ID: 26354
2. Member, NIH, USA
3. Member, Asia-pacific Sociological Association (APSA)
4. Member, UNSW Alumni Association
5. Founder, Amina-Atique Primary and Technical School, Bagunipara, Habiganj
6. Join Secretary, Bangladesh Sociological Association (BSA), Bangladesh
7. Member, Bangladesh Population Association (BPA)
8. Member, Dhaka University Teacher’s Club
9. Ex. Member SUST Teacher’s Association
10. Trustee, Amina-Atique Social Welfare Trust, Habiganj, Sylhet
11. Member, Association for Health Consumers Rights (AHCR)
12. Group Member, American Public Health Association (APHA)
13. Group Member, HIV & AIDS Network
14. Group Member, Global Public Health
15. Group Member, International AIDS Community (IAC)
16. Group Member, International HIV/AIDS Alliance

 

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

Australia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India

 

COMPUTER LITERACY:

 

Windows; Microsoft Excel/Access, PowerPoint, Ethnograph, Epi-info, STATA, SAS, and SPSS-PC+, etc.

 

Editorial/Advisory Board Member

• Journal of South Asian Studies; http://escijournals.net/JSAS.
• ASAUB Journal
• Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research. An official Publication of  Enugu State NMA, Nigeria.  (http://www.amhsr.org/editorialboard.asp)
• African Journals Online (AJOL) (http://www.ajol.info/index.php/amhsr/about/editorialPolicies)
• World Vision Journal

 

Some Web References:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Asm_Amanullah

http://www.ulab.edu.bd/CSD/publications/Leadr_chapter%204.pdf

http://news.priyo.com/2013/08/21/alarming-rise-drug-abuse-city-83715.html

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/02/06/17444

http://www.seqaep.gov.bd/PA/MSB_AC_V2_072013.pdf

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/asm-amanullah/21/ba0/834

http://centers.iub.edu.bd/chpd/associates/Dr%20Aman%27s%20Brief%20CV.pdf

http://www.bandhu-bd.org/report/Annual%20Report%202010%20of%20%20BSWS.pdf

http://www.bv-f.org/Editorial%20Board.html

http://www.asaub.edu.bd/notice/brochure.pdf

http://www.asaub.edu.bd/asaub_review.php

http://archive.thedailystar.net/campus/2011/11/03/newsroom.htm

https://www.concern.net/resources/mainstreaming-hiv-and-aids-bangladesh

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE:

Professor Ann Daniel PhD

School of Sociology, The UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Tel: 61-0407 526342; 61-2-6226 5328 (home); 61-2-9385 2608 (work) email: a.daniel@unsw.edu.au

 

Professor Mahbub Ahmed PhD

Department of Sociology, Dhaka University

Tel: 880-2-8616189

muahmed@du.ac.bd

 

 

Syeda Zakia Hossain PhD

School Behavioral Health Sciences

Sydney University

zakia.hossain@sydney.edu.au