Mohammad Mainul Islam

Professor
Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka

mainul@du.ac.bd

Field of Study: Demography, Population and Development, Public Health/ Epidemiology, Sociology
 
Specialization: Age and Sex Structure, Ageing, Children and Youth, Economic Demography, Families and Households, Historical Demography, Internal Migration, Labor force/Employment, Marriage, Divorce and Consensual Unions, Mortality, Health, and Longevity, Policy and Ethics, Population and Development, Reproductive Health (Family Planning), Social Demography
 
Regional focus: South Asia, East Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Peking University, Demography, 2009
 
Other association membership in population or related fieldsInternational Sociological Association(ISA)
International Epidemiological Association(IEA)
Global Development Network
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Working languages: Bengali
English, Chinese
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA), Population Association of America (PAA)
 


Personal web page:
http://www.dpsdu.edu.bd/index.php/profile/faculty-i/dr-mohammad-mainul-islam
Professional web page:
https://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/POPS/649  
 
Professional Summary:

 

Dr. Mohammad Mainul Islam is currently a Professor of the Department of Population Sciences (DPS) of the University of Dhaka. He is the Former Chairman (2018-2021) of the DPS. He had held the position of elected Member of the Syndicate –the highest decision-making body of the University of Dhaka for two consecutive terms between 2010 and 2014.He got his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka and later received his PhD in Demography from the Institute of Population Research at Peking University in 2009. Dr. Islam completed a Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program (GHR-CAPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University, Canada in 2014. He received the First Prize of Academic Excellence Award 2008 from Peking University. He has contributed to over 60 peer-reviewed publications including the first author in The Lancet, Lancet Global Health.His work broadly focuses on population and development, and global health.

 

 

Publications:

Mohammad Mainul Islam, Md. Anwer Hossain and MD. Yeasir Yunus (2020). Why is the use of contraception so low among the Rohingya displaced population in Bangladesh?https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(21)00155-3/fulltext

 

Mohammad Mainul Islam and MD. Yeasir Yunus (2020). Rohingya refugees at high risk of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 8, ISSUE 8, e993-e994, August 01, 2020,  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30282-5

 

Mohammad Mainul Islam and Tasmiah Nuzhath (2018). Health risks of Rohingya refugee population in Bangladesh: A call for global attention, Journal of Global Health, 2018, Vol.8: 2 , DOI: 10.7189/jogh.08.020309 (Impact Factor: 4.195)http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201802/jogh-08-020309.htm

 

Islam M (2018). Use of Reproductive Health Care Services among Urban Slum Women in Bangladesh, Abstract published in in the European Journal of Public Health, Volume 28, Issue suppl_1, May 2018  https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky047.142https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article-abstract/28/suppl_1/cky047.142/4973187?redirectedFrom=fulltext   

 

Mohammad M. Islam and Anita J. Gagnon (2014). Child marriage-related policies and reproductive health in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional analysis, The Lancet -19 October  2014 (Vol. 384, Page S8) DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736 (14)61871-7http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)61871-7.pdf

 

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Positions & Honors: (1) Former Chairman, Department of Population Sciences of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 2) Member of the Population Expert Group/Committee (PEC) of the General Economic Division’s Planning Commission within the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Bangladesh since November 2017, (3) Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 1st and 2nd National Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) at Workplace, 2018 and 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Awards: (1) Winner of New Voices in Global Health, One of the 10 winners for the New Voices in Global Health initiative 2016, World Health Summit in Berlin, October 9-11, 2016.

https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2017/new-voices-in-global-health.html

(2) Academician of the Social Sciences- the highest honor bestowed by the International Academy of Social Sciences (IASS), Palam Beach, Florida, USA.

(3) Winner of New Voices in Global Health, One of the 10 winners (the 10 best abstracts published in The Lancet) for the New Voices in Global Health program 2014, World Health Summit in Berlin, October 19-22, 2014.

(4) GHR-CAPS (Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program) Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014)

(5) Winner of the Global Health Axis 2014 Photo Contest, Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec (FRSPQ)/ Québec Population Health Research Network (QPHRN), Canada

(6) Nick Simons Scholar of New Investigators in Global Health (NIGH) 2010 of the Global Health Council (GHC), the 37th Annual International Conference on Global Health: Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals and Metrics, June 14-18, 2010, Washington, DC, USA

(7) First Prize of Academic Excellence Award 2008 of Peking University (in recognition of achievements in academic study from 2005-2008), Beijing, China
Research grants:
Strengthening the Capacity of Teaching and Research Facilities at the Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka, Second Phase (2017-2022), Funded by the UNFPA and Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh