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Associate Professor Neeloy Alam

Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health

Phone

+61 2 9351 8925

Fax

F +61 2 9351 5049

Email

neeloy.alam@sydney.edu.au

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Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture

Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Biographical details

Dr Alam is a health social scientist with expertise in integrating qualitative studies within randomized trials to improve their design, conduct and interpretation. His current projects include implementation research in maternal, child and adolescent nutrition in South/Southeast Asia and Africa, i.e. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Lao PRD, Vietnam and Malawi. Dr Alam has expertise in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social safety net interventions. His research area also includes the impact of household air pollution on perinatal outcomes. Dr Alam’s research on neonatal skincare has translated into policy and practice in newborn care in Bangladesh, Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa. He teaches at postgraduate level in qualitative and health social science methods, medical anthropology, development anthropology, and public health project management. Dr Alam’s higher degree students conduct research in in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Fiji, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan.

Research interests

Maternal and child nutrition; Adolescent obesity; Household air pollution; Nutrition-sensitive intervention; mNutrition.

Health social science and nutrition research: My research employs medical anthropology, health social science and qualitative approaches to investigate global health and nutrition outcomes within the areas of: infant and young child feeding; maternal and child nutrition; newborn and maternal health; social and behaviour change communication; and combined nutrition-specific (counselling) and sensitive-sensitive (agriculture, social safety net) intervention.

Implementation research in health and nutrition: My mixed-methods approach to implementation research contributes to design and implementation of complex public health interventions, and evaluation of how, why and for whom the interventions work.

Teaching and supervision

Social science methods to design maternal and child intervention
Process evaluation of health project
Research students in qualitative approaches to maternal and child health

Current projects

1. 2018 –. Addressing critical failures of Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) in South Asia: IYCN challenges faced by working women in urban areas. Funding: SAFANSI/World Bank.
2. 2017–. Cash transfers and behaviour change communications to reduce child undernutrition in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomized controlled trial to determine the most effective combination of interventions. Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia.
3. 2017 –. The impact of cleaner cookstoves to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes in low resource settings. Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia.
4. 2017–. Can Bovine Lactoferrin Prevent Neonatal Infections in Low Birthweight Newborns in Pakistan? Funding: USAID.
5. 2017–. Healthier lifestyles through a peer-education and peer-support system: A school-based pilot project in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. My role: Co-Investigator for feasibility assessment. Fund: Medical Research Council, UK.
6. 2016 –. Harnessing women’s social networks to improve maternal and child nutrition behaviours in East Java, Indonesia: An explorative study of positive and negative deviants. The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre.
7. 2015–. M-SAKHI: Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal & infant nutrition & health - A community-based cluster RCT in rural India. Fund: NHMRC.

Associations

Global Health & Nutrition Research Collaboration
South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network (SAIFRN) (Founding member)https://www.saifrn.org/
The Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition
Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Themes

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Lifespan

Keywords

Medical anthropology, Social science, Maternal and child health, Clinical trials, Qualitative research

Approaches

Assessment/Evaluation, Culture & Multicultural Factors, Qualitative Research

International links

Bangladesh	((International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh)) Partner in the South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network
India	((Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur)) Partner in South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network
Pakistan	(Aga Khan University) Aga Khan University
Sri Lanka	((University of Colombo)) Partner in South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network
Vietnam	(Pham Ngoc Thach) University of Medicine

Publications

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Journals

Patel, A., Kuhite, P., Khan, S., Puranik, A., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2024). M-SAKHI - Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal and infant nutrition and health: a description of development of the Program Impact Pathway using Theory of Change. Public Health Nutrition, 27(1), e217. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Travaglia, J., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2024). Understanding Fijian health system challenges in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in the three tertiary hospitals in Fiji. AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/Hiv, 36(7), 954-963. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Raihana, S., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2024). Women's participation in decision-making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018. Journal of International Development, 36(1), 26-42. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Khan, J., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Tahsina, T., Huda, T., Hoddinott, J., Laba, T., Muthayya, S., Goodwin, N., Dibley, M., Alam, N., et al (2024). Women's participation in household decision-making: Qualitative findings from the Shonjibon Trial in rural Bangladesh. PLoS Global Public Health, 4(6), e0002907. [More Information]
Christou, A., Raynes-Greenow, C., Mubasher, A., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Rashidi, M., Alam, N. (2023). Explanatory models of stillbirth among bereaved parents in Afghanistan: Implications for stillbirth prevention. PLoS Global Public Health, 3(6), e0001420. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Huda, T., Prabandari, Y., Alam, N. (2023). Factors influencing breastfeeding continuation and formula feeding beyond six months in rural and urban households in Indonesia: a qualitative investigation. International Breastfeeding Journal, 18(1), 48. [More Information]
Hmone, M., Li, M., Agho, K., Alam, N., Chad, N., Dibley, M. (2023). Tailored text messages to improve breastfeeding practices in Yangon, Myanmar: the M528 individually randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 117(3), 518-528. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Stephenson, N., Raynes-Greenow, C., Travaglia, J., Alam, N. (2023). Understanding the relationship between the public sector healthcare workers and NGO-based HIV counsellors while providing HIV counselling and testing services to pregnant women: A Qualitative Study in Suva, Fiji. Midwifery, 120. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Huda, T., Alam, N. (2022). Breastfeeding perceptions and exclusive breastfeeding practices: A qualitative comparative study in rural and urban Central Java, Indonesia. Appetite, 170, 105907. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Dibley, M., Khatun, W., Ara, G., Khanam, M., Bokshi, A., Li, M., Alam, N. (2022). Can a Combined Agriculture and Nutrition Behaviour Change Intervention Improve Women's Empowerment? A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study in Rural Bangladesh. The Qualitative Report, 27(12), 2905-2922. [More Information]
Thi Nguyen, N., Tang, H., Nguyen, M., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). Effect of a peer-led education intervention on dietary behaviour and physical activity among adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a pilot study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 76(11), 1590-1593. [More Information]
NGUYEN, N., Dibley, M., Tang, H., Alam, N. (2022). Effectiveness of peer-led programs for overweight and obesity in children: systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Obesity, 46(12), 2070-2087. [More Information]
Thornburg, J., Islam, S., Billah, S., Chan, B., McCombs, M., Abbott, M., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2022). Pregnant women’s exposure to household air pollution in rural bangladesh: A feasibility study for poriborton: The change trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 482. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N., Billah, S., Islam, S., Agho, K., Rokonuzzaman, S., Thornburg, J., El Arifeen, S., Chowdhury, A., Dibley, M. (2022). Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of LPG cookstoves compared to usual cooking practices to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity in rural Bangladesh called Poriborton: the CHANge trial. Trials, 23(1), 325. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Billah, S., Islam, S., Rokonuzzaman, S., Tofail, F., Kirkwood, E., Alam, N., Chartier, R., Ferdous, T., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M., Hayes, A., Kelly, P., et al (2022). Reducing household air pollution exposure to improve early child growth and development; a randomized control trial protocol for the "Poriborton-Extension: The CHANge trial". Trials, 23(1). [More Information]
NGUYEN, N., Tang, H., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and overweight and obesity in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a population-based analysis. Pediatrics International, 64(1), e14886. [More Information]
Titaley, C., Dibley, M., Ariawan, I., Mu'asyaroh, A., Paramashanti, B., Alam, N., Damayanti, R., Do, T., Ferguson, E., Htet, M., Li, M., et al (2022). The impact of a package of behaviour change interventions on breastfeeding practices in East Java Province, Indonesia. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 18(3). [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Kelly, P., Alam, N., Afsana, K., Billah, S., Dibley, M. (2022). The Impact of Antenatal Balanced Plate Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women on Birth Weight: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Rural Bangladesh. Nutrients, 14(21). [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Clymer, C., Imbulana, K., Mozumder, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). The Role of mHealth Interventions in Changing Gender Relations: Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings. JMIR Human Factors, 9(3), 1-16. [More Information]
Mihrshahi, S., Ara, G., Khanam, M., Rasheed, S., Agho, K., Kabir, I., Roy, S., Haider, R., Hamadani, J., Tofail, F., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2022). The Shishu Pushti Trial–Extended Peer Counseling for Improving Feeding Practices and Reducing Undernutrition in Children Aged 0-48 Months in Urban Bangladesh: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(2), e31475. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Huda, T., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2022). Trends and determinants of minimum dietary diversity among children aged 6-23 months: a pooled analysis of Indonesia Demographic and Health Surveys from 2007 to 2017. Public Health Nutrition, 25(7), 1956-1967. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Alam, N., Huda, T. (2022). Wealth- and education-related inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Indonesian infants and young children: a decomposition analysis. Global Health Action, 15(1), 2040152. [More Information]
Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Mubasher, A., Rasooly, M., Rashidi, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). 'I should have seen her face at least once': parent's and healthcare providers' experiences and practices of care after stillbirth in Kabul province, Afghanistan. Journal of Perinatology, 41(9), 2182-2195. [More Information]
Jamil, A., Huckel Schneider, C., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). An analysis of the impact of newborn survival policies in Pakistan using a policy triangle framework. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19(1), 86-1-86-14. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Dibley, M., Hoddinott, J., Huda, T., Laba, T., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Khan, J., Ali, N., Goodwin, N., Alam, N., et al (2021). Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: A randomised control trial protocol. BMJ Open, 11(6), 44261. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2021). Barriers to uptaking HIV testing among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative findings. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 61(6), 817-829. [More Information]
Ariff, S., Soofi, S., Aamir, A., D'Almeida, M., Ali, A., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2021). Bovine Lactoferrin to Prevent Neonatal Infections in Low-Birth-Weight Newborns in Pakistan: Protocol for a Three-Arm Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(3), e23994. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Alam, N., Chad, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2021). Delayed initiation of breastfeeding and role of mode and place of childbirth: Evidence from health surveys in 58 low-and middle-income countries (2012–2017). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5976. [More Information]
Titaley, C., Dibley, M., Ariawan, I., Mu’asyaroh, A., Alam, N., Damayanti, R., Do, T., Ferguson, E., Htet, K., Li, M., et al (2021). Determinants of low breastfeeding self-efficacy amongst mothers of children aged less than six months: results from the BADUTA study in East Java, Indonesia. International Breastfeeding Journal, 16(1), 12. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Alam, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2021). Factors associated with delayed initiation of breastfeeding in health facilities: secondary analysis of Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2014. International Breastfeeding Journal, 16(1), 14. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Rahman, A., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). Modifiable socio-cultural beliefs and practices influencing early and adequate utilisation of antenatal care in rural Bangladesh: A qualitative study. Midwifery, 93, 102881. [More Information]
Khan, S., Tawale, N., Patel, A., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2021). “My husband is my family.” The culture of pregnancy disclosure and its implications on early pregnancy registration in a child nutrition intervention in rural Maharashtra, India. Midwifery, 103, 103141-1-103141-7. [More Information]
Alam, N., Khatun, W., Khanam, M., Ara, G., Bokshi, A., Li, M., Dibley, M. (2020). "In the past, the seeds I planted often didn't grow." A mixed-methods feasibility assessment of integrating agriculture and nutrition behaviour change interventions with cash transfers in rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(11), 1-15. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Islam, S., Khan, J., Tasnim, F., Nisha, M., Thornburg, J., Billah, S., Alam, N. (2020). A Feasibility Study Assessing Acceptability and Supply Issues of Distributing LPG Cookstoves and Gas Cylinders to Pregnant Women Living in Rural Bangladesh for Poriborton: The CHANge Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 848. [More Information]
Fahmida, U., Htet, M., Ferguson, E., Do, T., Buanasita, A., Titaley, C., Alam, N., Sutrisna, A., Li, M., Ariawan, I., Dibley, M. (2020). Effect of an integrated package of nutrition behavior change interventions on infant and young child feeding practices and child growth from birth to 18 months: Cohort evaluation of the baduta cluster randomized controlled trial in east Java, Indonesia. Nutrients, 12(12), 1-16. [More Information]
Dibley, M., Alam, N., Fahmida, U., Ariawan, I., Titaley, C., Htet, M., Damayanti, R., Li, M., Sutrisna, A., Ferguson, E. (2020). Evaluation of a package of behaviour change interventions (baduta program) to improve maternal and child nutrition in east Java, Indonesia: Protocol for an impact study. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(9), 1-16. [More Information]
Ahmed, J., Alam, N., Khokhar, S., Khowaja, S., Kumar, R., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Exploring women's experience of healthcare use during pregnancy and childbirth to understand factors contributing to perinatal deaths in Pakistan: A qualitative study. PloS One, 15(5), e0232823. [More Information]
Alam, N., Chowdhury, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). How can we improve the consumption of a nutritionally balanced maternal diet in rural bangladesh? The key elements of the “balanced plate” intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17), 1-12. [More Information]
Tang, H., Nguyen, N., Dibley, M., Nguyen, T., Alam, N. (2020). Improving the Lifestyle of Adolescents Through Peer Education and Support in Vietnam: Protocol for a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(6), e15930. [More Information]
Billah, S., Islam, S., Tasnim, F., Alam, N., El Arifeen, S., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Self-adopted 'natural users' of liquid petroleum gas for household cooking by pregnant women in rural Bangladesh: Characteristics of high use and opportunities for intervention. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 95008. [More Information]
Huda, T., Alam, N., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Khan, J., Ara, G., Ali, N., Al Amin, S., Kirkwood, E., Goodwin, N., Muthayya, S., Dibley, M., et al (2020). Shonjibon cash and counselling: a community-based cluster randomised controlled trial to measure the effectiveness of unconditional cash transfers and mobile behaviour change communications to reduce child undernutrition in rural Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1-14. [More Information]
Ahmed, J., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2020). Traditional practices during pregnancy and birth, and perceptions of perinatal losses in women of rural Pakistan. Midwifery, 91, 102854. [More Information]
Khatun, W., Rasheed, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2020). Understanding maternal dietary behaviour and perceived attributes of foods in the context of food insecurity in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study. Journal of Global Health Reports, 4. [More Information]
Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Mubasher, A., Rashidi, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Understanding pathways leading to stillbirth: The role of care-seeking and care received during pregnancy and childbirth in Kabul province, Afghanistan. Women and Birth, 33(6), 544-555. [More Information]
Khan, S., Patel, A., Puranik, A., Kuhite, P., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2020). Use of Mobile Health in Infant and Young Child Nutrition: A Formative Study in Rural Maharashtra. The Qualitative Report, 25(6), 1658-1671. [More Information]
Khatun, W., Rasheed, S., Alam, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2019). Assessing the Intergenerational Linkage between Short Maternal Stature and Under-Five Stunting and Wasting in Bangladesh. Nutrients, 11(8), 1-15. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Dibley, M., Rahman, M., Tahsina, T., Siddique, A., Rahman, Q., Islam, S., Alam, N., Kelly, P., El Arifeen, S., Huda, T. (2019). Early initiation of breastfeeding and severe illness in the early newborn period: An observational study in rural Bangladesh. PLoS Medicine, 16(8), 1-17. [More Information]
Akber, S., Mahmood, H., Fatima, R., Wali, A., Alam, N., Sheraz, S., Yaqoob, A., Najmi, H., Abbasi, S., Mahmood, H., Dibley, M., et al (2019). Effectiveness of a mobile health intervention on infant and young child feeding among children <24 months of age in rural Islamabad over six months duration. F1000Research, 8, 1-20. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Huda, T., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2019). Factors Associated with Delayed Initiation of Breastfeeding Among Hospital Deliveries: Secondary Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 (P18-107-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Supplement 1), 1667-1668. [More Information]
Alam, N., Khatun, W., Khanam, M., Ara, G., Li, M., Dibley, M. (2019). Feasibility of Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition Behavior Change Interventions with Cash Transfers in Rural Bangladesh: A Mixed-methods Assessment (P10-126-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Suppl 1), 899. [More Information]
Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Mubasher, A., Rashidi, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2019). How community and healthcare provider perceptions, practices and experiences influence reporting, disclosure and data collection on stillbirth: Findings of a qualitative study in Afghanistan. Social Science & Medicine, 236, 1-12. [More Information]
Alam, N., Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Dibley, M. (2019). How the Women and the Community Responded to an Antenatal Balanced Plate Nutrition Education Intervention? A Qualitative Process Assessment in Rural Bangladesh (P04-002-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Suppl 1), 168. [More Information]
Patel, A., Kuhite, P., Alam, N., Pusdekar, Y., Puranik, A., Khan, S., Kelly, P., Muthayya, S., Laba, T., D Almeida, M., Dibley, M. (2019). M-SAKHI—Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal and infant nutrition and health using a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial in rural India: A study protocol. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 15(4), 1-16. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Rahman, A., Alam, N. (2019). Perceptions and practices related to birthweight in rural Bangladesh: Implications for neonatal health programs in low- And middle-income settings. PloS One, 14(12), 1-16. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Islam, M., Huda, T., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2019). Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with short and long birth intervals in Bangladesh: evidence from six Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, 1996-2014. BMJ Open, 9(2), 1-11. [More Information]
Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). "The system here isn't on patients' side"- perspectives of women and men on the barriers to accessing and utilizing maternal healthcare services in South Sudan. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-8. [More Information]
Huda, T., Rahman, M., Raihana, S., Islam, S., Tahsina, T., Alam, N., Agho, K., Rasheed, S., Hayes, A., Karim, M., Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Dibley, M., et al (2018). A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to evaluate the impact of the use of iron-folic acid supplements early in pregnancy on the risk of neonatal mortality: the Shonjibon trial. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1-11. [More Information]
Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). Barriers Faced by the Health Workers to Deliver Maternal Care Services and Their Perceptions of the Factors Preventing Their Clients from Receiving the Services: A Qualitative Study in South Sudan. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(11), 1598-1606. [More Information]
Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). Correction to: Barriers Faced by the Health Workers to Deliver Maternal Care Services and Their Perceptions of the Factors Preventing Their Clients from Receiving the Services: A Qualitative Study in South Sudan. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(12), 1834-1834. [More Information]
Khatun, W., Alam, N., Rasheed, S., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2018). Exploring the intergenerational effects of undernutrition: association of maternal height with neonatal, infant and under-five mortality in Bangladesh. BMJ Global Health, 3(6), 1-12. [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Dibley, M., Alam, N., Huda, T., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2018). Household Food Security and Birth Size of Infants: Analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011. Current Developments in Nutrition, 2(3), 1-8. [More Information]
Khan, N., Rasheed, S., Sharmin, T., Siddique, A., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2018). How can mobile phones be used to improve nutrition service delivery in rural Bangladesh? BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-10. [More Information]
Huda, T., Alam, N., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Khan, J., Rahman, M., Siddique, A., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M. (2018). Mobile-Based Nutrition Counseling and Unconditional Cash Transfers for Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition in Bangladesh: Pilot Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(7), 1-13. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2018). Variations in perinatal mortality associated with different polluting fuel types and kitchen location in Bangladesh. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 24(1-2), 47-54. [More Information]
Hmone, M., Li, M., Agho, K., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Factors associated with intention to exclusive breastfeed in central women's hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. International Breastfeeding Journal, 12(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Making a balanced plate for pregnant women to improve birthweight of infants: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. BMJ Open, 7(8), 1-12. [More Information]
Pan Hmone, M., Li, M., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Mobile Phone Short Messages to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding and Reduce Adverse Infant Feeding Practices: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial in Yangon, Myanmar. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(6), 1-15. [More Information]
Nguyen, N., Dibley, M., Tang, H., Alam, N. (2017). Perceptions and Practices Related to Obesity in Adolescent Students and Their Programmatic Implications: Qualitative Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(12), 2199-2208. [More Information]
Pan Hmone, M., Dibley, M., Li, M., Alam, N. (2016). A formative study to inform mHealth based randomized controlled trial intervention to promote exclusive breastfeeding practices in Myanmar: incorporating qualitative study findings. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 16(1), 1-10. [More Information]
Alam, N., Tawale, N., Patel, A., Dibley, M., Jadhao, S., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2016). Household Air Pollution Intervention Implications: Findings from Qualitative Studies and a Field Trial of Clean Cookstoves in Two Rural Villages in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(9), 1-14. [More Information]
Nisar, Y., Aurangzeb, B., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2016). Qualitative exploration of facilitating factors and barriers to use of antenatal care services by pregnant women in urban and rural settings in Pakistan. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Weerasinghe, M., Senerath, U., Godakandage, S., Jayawickrama, H., Wickramasinghe, A., Siriwardena, I., Nimalan, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2016). Use of Mobile Phones for Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling in Sri Lankan Tea Estates: A Formative Study. The Qualitative Report, 21(5), 899-913.
Alam, N., Rasheed, S., Khan, N., Sharmin, T., Huda, T., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M. (2015). How can formative research inform the design of an iron-folic acid supplementation intervention starting in first trimester of pregnancy in Bangladesh? BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Henry, E., Lehnertz, N., Alam, N., Ali, N., Williams, E., Rahman, S., Ahmed, S., El Arifeen, S., Baqui, A., Winch, P. (2015). Sociocultural factors perpetuating the practices of early marriage and childbirth in Sylhet District, Bangladesh. International Health, 7(3), 212-217. [More Information]
Matthews, L., Harris, L., Jaworski, A., Alam, N., Bozdag, G. (2014). Function, health and psychosocial needs in job-seekers with anxiety, mood, and psychotic disorders who access disability employment services. Work, 49(2), 271-279. [More Information]
Nisar, Y., Alam, N., Aurangzeb, B., Dibley, M. (2014). Perceptions of antenatal iron-folic acid supplements in urban and rural Pakistan: A qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Harris, L., Matthews, L., Penrose-Wall, J., Alam, N., Jaworski, A. (2014). Perspectives on barriers to employment for job seekers with mental illness and additional substance-use problems. Health and Social Care in the Community, 22(1), 67-77. [More Information]
Uddin, S., Hossain, L., Hamra, J., Alam, N. (2013). A study of physician collaborations through social network and exponential random graph. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), 1-14. [More Information]
Choudhury, N., Moran, A., Alam, N., Ahsan, K., Rashid, S., Streatfield, P. (2012). Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 12(11), 1-6. [More Information]
Khatun, F., Rasheed, S., Moran, A., Alam, A., Shomik, M., Sultana, M., Choudhury, N., Iqbal, M., Bhuiya, A. (2012). Causes of neonatal and maternal deaths in Dhaka slums: implications for service delivery. BMC Public Health, 12(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Ahmed, S., Hossain, A., Khan, M., Mridha, M., Alam, A., Choudhury, N., Sharmin, T., Afsana, K., Bhuiya, A. (2010). Using formative research to develop MNCH programme in urban slums in Bangladesh: experiences from MANOSHI, BRAC. BMC Public Health, 10(0), 663-663. [More Information]
Moran, A., Choudhury, N., Khan, N., Karar, Z., Wahed, T., Rashid, S., Alam, M. (2009). Newborn care practices among slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a quantitative and qualitative exploratory study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 9(0), 54-54. [More Information]
Alam, M., Ali, N., Sultana, N., Mullany, L., Teela, K., Khan, N., Baqui, A., El Arifeen, S., Mannan, I., Darmstadt, G., et al (2008). Newborn umbilical cord and skin care in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: implications for the promotion of umbilical cord cleansing with topical chlorhexidine. Journal of Perinatology, 28(Suppl 2), S61-68. [More Information]
Winch, P., Alam, N., Akther, A., Afroz, D., Ali, N., Ellis, A., Baqui, A., Darmstadt, G., El Arifeen, S., Seraji, M., et al (2005). Local understandings of vulnerability and protection during the neonatal period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: a qualitative study. The Lancet, 366, 478-485. [More Information]

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2024

Patel, A., Kuhite, P., Khan, S., Puranik, A., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2024). M-SAKHI - Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal and infant nutrition and health: a description of development of the Program Impact Pathway using Theory of Change. Public Health Nutrition, 27(1), e217. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Travaglia, J., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2024). Understanding Fijian health system challenges in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in the three tertiary hospitals in Fiji. AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/Hiv, 36(7), 954-963. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Raihana, S., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2024). Women's participation in decision-making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018. Journal of International Development, 36(1), 26-42. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Khan, J., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Tahsina, T., Huda, T., Hoddinott, J., Laba, T., Muthayya, S., Goodwin, N., Dibley, M., Alam, N., et al (2024). Women's participation in household decision-making: Qualitative findings from the Shonjibon Trial in rural Bangladesh. PLoS Global Public Health, 4(6), e0002907. [More Information]

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2023

Christou, A., Raynes-Greenow, C., Mubasher, A., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Rashidi, M., Alam, N. (2023). Explanatory models of stillbirth among bereaved parents in Afghanistan: Implications for stillbirth prevention. PLoS Global Public Health, 3(6), e0001420. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Huda, T., Prabandari, Y., Alam, N. (2023). Factors influencing breastfeeding continuation and formula feeding beyond six months in rural and urban households in Indonesia: a qualitative investigation. International Breastfeeding Journal, 18(1), 48. [More Information]
Hmone, M., Li, M., Agho, K., Alam, N., Chad, N., Dibley, M. (2023). Tailored text messages to improve breastfeeding practices in Yangon, Myanmar: the M528 individually randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 117(3), 518-528. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Stephenson, N., Raynes-Greenow, C., Travaglia, J., Alam, N. (2023). Understanding the relationship between the public sector healthcare workers and NGO-based HIV counsellors while providing HIV counselling and testing services to pregnant women: A Qualitative Study in Suva, Fiji. Midwifery, 120. [More Information]

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2022

Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Huda, T., Alam, N. (2022). Breastfeeding perceptions and exclusive breastfeeding practices: A qualitative comparative study in rural and urban Central Java, Indonesia. Appetite, 170, 105907. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Dibley, M., Khatun, W., Ara, G., Khanam, M., Bokshi, A., Li, M., Alam, N. (2022). Can a Combined Agriculture and Nutrition Behaviour Change Intervention Improve Women's Empowerment? A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study in Rural Bangladesh. The Qualitative Report, 27(12), 2905-2922. [More Information]
Thi Nguyen, N., Tang, H., Nguyen, M., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). Effect of a peer-led education intervention on dietary behaviour and physical activity among adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a pilot study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 76(11), 1590-1593. [More Information]
NGUYEN, N., Dibley, M., Tang, H., Alam, N. (2022). Effectiveness of peer-led programs for overweight and obesity in children: systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Obesity, 46(12), 2070-2087. [More Information]
Thornburg, J., Islam, S., Billah, S., Chan, B., McCombs, M., Abbott, M., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2022). Pregnant women’s exposure to household air pollution in rural bangladesh: A feasibility study for poriborton: The change trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 482. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N., Billah, S., Islam, S., Agho, K., Rokonuzzaman, S., Thornburg, J., El Arifeen, S., Chowdhury, A., Dibley, M. (2022). Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of LPG cookstoves compared to usual cooking practices to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity in rural Bangladesh called Poriborton: the CHANge trial. Trials, 23(1), 325. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Billah, S., Islam, S., Rokonuzzaman, S., Tofail, F., Kirkwood, E., Alam, N., Chartier, R., Ferdous, T., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M., Hayes, A., Kelly, P., et al (2022). Reducing household air pollution exposure to improve early child growth and development; a randomized control trial protocol for the "Poriborton-Extension: The CHANge trial". Trials, 23(1). [More Information]
NGUYEN, N., Tang, H., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and overweight and obesity in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a population-based analysis. Pediatrics International, 64(1), e14886. [More Information]
Titaley, C., Dibley, M., Ariawan, I., Mu'asyaroh, A., Paramashanti, B., Alam, N., Damayanti, R., Do, T., Ferguson, E., Htet, M., Li, M., et al (2022). The impact of a package of behaviour change interventions on breastfeeding practices in East Java Province, Indonesia. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 18(3). [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Kelly, P., Alam, N., Afsana, K., Billah, S., Dibley, M. (2022). The Impact of Antenatal Balanced Plate Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women on Birth Weight: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Rural Bangladesh. Nutrients, 14(21). [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Clymer, C., Imbulana, K., Mozumder, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2022). The Role of mHealth Interventions in Changing Gender Relations: Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings. JMIR Human Factors, 9(3), 1-16. [More Information]
Mihrshahi, S., Ara, G., Khanam, M., Rasheed, S., Agho, K., Kabir, I., Roy, S., Haider, R., Hamadani, J., Tofail, F., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2022). The Shishu Pushti Trial–Extended Peer Counseling for Improving Feeding Practices and Reducing Undernutrition in Children Aged 0-48 Months in Urban Bangladesh: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(2), e31475. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Huda, T., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2022). Trends and determinants of minimum dietary diversity among children aged 6-23 months: a pooled analysis of Indonesia Demographic and Health Surveys from 2007 to 2017. Public Health Nutrition, 25(7), 1956-1967. [More Information]
Paramashanti, B., Dibley, M., Alam, N., Huda, T. (2022). Wealth- and education-related inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Indonesian infants and young children: a decomposition analysis. Global Health Action, 15(1), 2040152. [More Information]

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2021

Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Mubasher, A., Rasooly, M., Rashidi, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). 'I should have seen her face at least once': parent's and healthcare providers' experiences and practices of care after stillbirth in Kabul province, Afghanistan. Journal of Perinatology, 41(9), 2182-2195. [More Information]
Jamil, A., Huckel Schneider, C., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). An analysis of the impact of newborn survival policies in Pakistan using a policy triangle framework. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19(1), 86-1-86-14. [More Information]
Kirkwood, E., Dibley, M., Hoddinott, J., Huda, T., Laba, T., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Khan, J., Ali, N., Goodwin, N., Alam, N., et al (2021). Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: A randomised control trial protocol. BMJ Open, 11(6), 44261. [More Information]
Razzaq, A., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2021). Barriers to uptaking HIV testing among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative findings. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 61(6), 817-829. [More Information]
Ariff, S., Soofi, S., Aamir, A., D'Almeida, M., Ali, A., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2021). Bovine Lactoferrin to Prevent Neonatal Infections in Low-Birth-Weight Newborns in Pakistan: Protocol for a Three-Arm Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(3), e23994. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Alam, N., Chad, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2021). Delayed initiation of breastfeeding and role of mode and place of childbirth: Evidence from health surveys in 58 low-and middle-income countries (2012–2017). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5976. [More Information]
Titaley, C., Dibley, M., Ariawan, I., Mu’asyaroh, A., Alam, N., Damayanti, R., Do, T., Ferguson, E., Htet, K., Li, M., et al (2021). Determinants of low breastfeeding self-efficacy amongst mothers of children aged less than six months: results from the BADUTA study in East Java, Indonesia. International Breastfeeding Journal, 16(1), 12. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Alam, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2021). Factors associated with delayed initiation of breastfeeding in health facilities: secondary analysis of Bangladesh demographic and health survey 2014. International Breastfeeding Journal, 16(1), 14. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Rahman, A., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2021). Modifiable socio-cultural beliefs and practices influencing early and adequate utilisation of antenatal care in rural Bangladesh: A qualitative study. Midwifery, 93, 102881. [More Information]
Khan, S., Tawale, N., Patel, A., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2021). “My husband is my family.” The culture of pregnancy disclosure and its implications on early pregnancy registration in a child nutrition intervention in rural Maharashtra, India. Midwifery, 103, 103141-1-103141-7. [More Information]

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2020

Alam, N., Khatun, W., Khanam, M., Ara, G., Bokshi, A., Li, M., Dibley, M. (2020). "In the past, the seeds I planted often didn't grow." A mixed-methods feasibility assessment of integrating agriculture and nutrition behaviour change interventions with cash transfers in rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(11), 1-15. [More Information]
Raynes-Greenow, C., Islam, S., Khan, J., Tasnim, F., Nisha, M., Thornburg, J., Billah, S., Alam, N. (2020). A Feasibility Study Assessing Acceptability and Supply Issues of Distributing LPG Cookstoves and Gas Cylinders to Pregnant Women Living in Rural Bangladesh for Poriborton: The CHANge Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 848. [More Information]
Fahmida, U., Htet, M., Ferguson, E., Do, T., Buanasita, A., Titaley, C., Alam, N., Sutrisna, A., Li, M., Ariawan, I., Dibley, M. (2020). Effect of an integrated package of nutrition behavior change interventions on infant and young child feeding practices and child growth from birth to 18 months: Cohort evaluation of the baduta cluster randomized controlled trial in east Java, Indonesia. Nutrients, 12(12), 1-16. [More Information]
Dibley, M., Alam, N., Fahmida, U., Ariawan, I., Titaley, C., Htet, M., Damayanti, R., Li, M., Sutrisna, A., Ferguson, E. (2020). Evaluation of a package of behaviour change interventions (baduta program) to improve maternal and child nutrition in east Java, Indonesia: Protocol for an impact study. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(9), 1-16. [More Information]
Ahmed, J., Alam, N., Khokhar, S., Khowaja, S., Kumar, R., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Exploring women's experience of healthcare use during pregnancy and childbirth to understand factors contributing to perinatal deaths in Pakistan: A qualitative study. PloS One, 15(5), e0232823. [More Information]
Alam, N., Chowdhury, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). How can we improve the consumption of a nutritionally balanced maternal diet in rural bangladesh? The key elements of the “balanced plate” intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17), 1-12. [More Information]
Tang, H., Nguyen, N., Dibley, M., Nguyen, T., Alam, N. (2020). Improving the Lifestyle of Adolescents Through Peer Education and Support in Vietnam: Protocol for a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(6), e15930. [More Information]
Billah, S., Islam, S., Tasnim, F., Alam, N., El Arifeen, S., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Self-adopted 'natural users' of liquid petroleum gas for household cooking by pregnant women in rural Bangladesh: Characteristics of high use and opportunities for intervention. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 95008. [More Information]
Huda, T., Alam, N., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Iqbal, A., Khan, J., Ara, G., Ali, N., Al Amin, S., Kirkwood, E., Goodwin, N., Muthayya, S., Dibley, M., et al (2020). Shonjibon cash and counselling: a community-based cluster randomised controlled trial to measure the effectiveness of unconditional cash transfers and mobile behaviour change communications to reduce child undernutrition in rural Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1-14. [More Information]
Ahmed, J., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N. (2020). Traditional practices during pregnancy and birth, and perceptions of perinatal losses in women of rural Pakistan. Midwifery, 91, 102854. [More Information]
Khatun, W., Rasheed, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2020). Understanding maternal dietary behaviour and perceived attributes of foods in the context of food insecurity in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study. Journal of Global Health Reports, 4. [More Information]
Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Mubasher, A., Rashidi, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2020). Understanding pathways leading to stillbirth: The role of care-seeking and care received during pregnancy and childbirth in Kabul province, Afghanistan. Women and Birth, 33(6), 544-555. [More Information]
Khan, S., Patel, A., Puranik, A., Kuhite, P., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2020). Use of Mobile Health in Infant and Young Child Nutrition: A Formative Study in Rural Maharashtra. The Qualitative Report, 25(6), 1658-1671. [More Information]

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2019

Khatun, W., Rasheed, S., Alam, N., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2019). Assessing the Intergenerational Linkage between Short Maternal Stature and Under-Five Stunting and Wasting in Bangladesh. Nutrients, 11(8), 1-15. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Dibley, M., Rahman, M., Tahsina, T., Siddique, A., Rahman, Q., Islam, S., Alam, N., Kelly, P., El Arifeen, S., Huda, T. (2019). Early initiation of breastfeeding and severe illness in the early newborn period: An observational study in rural Bangladesh. PLoS Medicine, 16(8), 1-17. [More Information]
Akber, S., Mahmood, H., Fatima, R., Wali, A., Alam, N., Sheraz, S., Yaqoob, A., Najmi, H., Abbasi, S., Mahmood, H., Dibley, M., et al (2019). Effectiveness of a mobile health intervention on infant and young child feeding among children <24 months of age in rural Islamabad over six months duration. F1000Research, 8, 1-20. [More Information]
Raihana, S., Huda, T., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2019). Factors Associated with Delayed Initiation of Breastfeeding Among Hospital Deliveries: Secondary Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 (P18-107-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Supplement 1), 1667-1668. [More Information]
Alam, N., Khatun, W., Khanam, M., Ara, G., Li, M., Dibley, M. (2019). Feasibility of Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition Behavior Change Interventions with Cash Transfers in Rural Bangladesh: A Mixed-methods Assessment (P10-126-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Suppl 1), 899. [More Information]
Christou, A., Alam, N., Hofiani, S., Rasooly, M., Mubasher, A., Rashidi, M., Dibley, M., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2019). How community and healthcare provider perceptions, practices and experiences influence reporting, disclosure and data collection on stillbirth: Findings of a qualitative study in Afghanistan. Social Science & Medicine, 236, 1-12. [More Information]
Alam, N., Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Dibley, M. (2019). How the Women and the Community Responded to an Antenatal Balanced Plate Nutrition Education Intervention? A Qualitative Process Assessment in Rural Bangladesh (P04-002-19). Current Developments in Nutrition, 3(Suppl 1), 168. [More Information]
Patel, A., Kuhite, P., Alam, N., Pusdekar, Y., Puranik, A., Khan, S., Kelly, P., Muthayya, S., Laba, T., D Almeida, M., Dibley, M. (2019). M-SAKHI—Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal and infant nutrition and health using a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial in rural India: A study protocol. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 15(4), 1-16. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Rahman, A., Alam, N. (2019). Perceptions and practices related to birthweight in rural Bangladesh: Implications for neonatal health programs in low- And middle-income settings. PloS One, 14(12), 1-16. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Islam, M., Huda, T., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2019). Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with short and long birth intervals in Bangladesh: evidence from six Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, 1996-2014. BMJ Open, 9(2), 1-11. [More Information]

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2018

Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). "The system here isn't on patients' side"- perspectives of women and men on the barriers to accessing and utilizing maternal healthcare services in South Sudan. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-8. [More Information]
Huda, T., Rahman, M., Raihana, S., Islam, S., Tahsina, T., Alam, N., Agho, K., Rasheed, S., Hayes, A., Karim, M., Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Dibley, M., et al (2018). A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to evaluate the impact of the use of iron-folic acid supplements early in pregnancy on the risk of neonatal mortality: the Shonjibon trial. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1-11. [More Information]
Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). Barriers Faced by the Health Workers to Deliver Maternal Care Services and Their Perceptions of the Factors Preventing Their Clients from Receiving the Services: A Qualitative Study in South Sudan. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(11), 1598-1606. [More Information]
Mugo, N., Dibley, M., Damundu, E., Alam, N. (2018). Correction to: Barriers Faced by the Health Workers to Deliver Maternal Care Services and Their Perceptions of the Factors Preventing Their Clients from Receiving the Services: A Qualitative Study in South Sudan. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(12), 1834-1834. [More Information]
Khatun, W., Alam, N., Rasheed, S., Huda, T., Dibley, M. (2018). Exploring the intergenerational effects of undernutrition: association of maternal height with neonatal, infant and under-five mortality in Bangladesh. BMJ Global Health, 3(6), 1-12. [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Dibley, M., Alam, N., Huda, T., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2018). Household Food Security and Birth Size of Infants: Analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011. Current Developments in Nutrition, 2(3), 1-8. [More Information]
Khan, N., Rasheed, S., Sharmin, T., Siddique, A., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2018). How can mobile phones be used to improve nutrition service delivery in rural Bangladesh? BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-10. [More Information]
Huda, T., Alam, N., Tahsina, T., Hasan, M., Khan, J., Rahman, M., Siddique, A., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M. (2018). Mobile-Based Nutrition Counseling and Unconditional Cash Transfers for Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition in Bangladesh: Pilot Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(7), 1-13. [More Information]
Nisha, M., Alam, N., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2018). Variations in perinatal mortality associated with different polluting fuel types and kitchen location in Bangladesh. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 24(1-2), 47-54. [More Information]

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2017

Hmone, M., Li, M., Agho, K., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Factors associated with intention to exclusive breastfeed in central women's hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. International Breastfeeding Journal, 12(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Chowdhury, M., Raynes-Greenow, C., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Making a balanced plate for pregnant women to improve birthweight of infants: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. BMJ Open, 7(8), 1-12. [More Information]
Pan Hmone, M., Li, M., Alam, N., Dibley, M. (2017). Mobile Phone Short Messages to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding and Reduce Adverse Infant Feeding Practices: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial in Yangon, Myanmar. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(6), 1-15. [More Information]
Nguyen, N., Dibley, M., Tang, H., Alam, N. (2017). Perceptions and Practices Related to Obesity in Adolescent Students and Their Programmatic Implications: Qualitative Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(12), 2199-2208. [More Information]

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2016

Pan Hmone, M., Dibley, M., Li, M., Alam, N. (2016). A formative study to inform mHealth based randomized controlled trial intervention to promote exclusive breastfeeding practices in Myanmar: incorporating qualitative study findings. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 16(1), 1-10. [More Information]
Alam, N., Tawale, N., Patel, A., Dibley, M., Jadhao, S., Raynes-Greenow, C. (2016). Household Air Pollution Intervention Implications: Findings from Qualitative Studies and a Field Trial of Clean Cookstoves in Two Rural Villages in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(9), 1-14. [More Information]
Nisar, Y., Aurangzeb, B., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2016). Qualitative exploration of facilitating factors and barriers to use of antenatal care services by pregnant women in urban and rural settings in Pakistan. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Weerasinghe, M., Senerath, U., Godakandage, S., Jayawickrama, H., Wickramasinghe, A., Siriwardena, I., Nimalan, S., Dibley, M., Alam, N. (2016). Use of Mobile Phones for Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling in Sri Lankan Tea Estates: A Formative Study. The Qualitative Report, 21(5), 899-913.

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2015

Alam, N., Rasheed, S., Khan, N., Sharmin, T., Huda, T., El Arifeen, S., Dibley, M. (2015). How can formative research inform the design of an iron-folic acid supplementation intervention starting in first trimester of pregnancy in Bangladesh? BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Henry, E., Lehnertz, N., Alam, N., Ali, N., Williams, E., Rahman, S., Ahmed, S., El Arifeen, S., Baqui, A., Winch, P. (2015). Sociocultural factors perpetuating the practices of early marriage and childbirth in Sylhet District, Bangladesh. International Health, 7(3), 212-217. [More Information]

2014

Matthews, L., Harris, L., Jaworski, A., Alam, N., Bozdag, G. (2014). Function, health and psychosocial needs in job-seekers with anxiety, mood, and psychotic disorders who access disability employment services. Work, 49(2), 271-279. [More Information]
Nisar, Y., Alam, N., Aurangzeb, B., Dibley, M. (2014). Perceptions of antenatal iron-folic acid supplements in urban and rural Pakistan: A qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Harris, L., Matthews, L., Penrose-Wall, J., Alam, N., Jaworski, A. (2014). Perspectives on barriers to employment for job seekers with mental illness and additional substance-use problems. Health and Social Care in the Community, 22(1), 67-77. [More Information]

2013

Uddin, S., Hossain, L., Hamra, J., Alam, N. (2013). A study of physician collaborations through social network and exponential random graph. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), 1-14. [More Information]

2012

Choudhury, N., Moran, A., Alam, N., Ahsan, K., Rashid, S., Streatfield, P. (2012). Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 12(11), 1-6. [More Information]
Khatun, F., Rasheed, S., Moran, A., Alam, A., Shomik, M., Sultana, M., Choudhury, N., Iqbal, M., Bhuiya, A. (2012). Causes of neonatal and maternal deaths in Dhaka slums: implications for service delivery. BMC Public Health, 12(1), 1-9. [More Information]

2010

Ahmed, S., Hossain, A., Khan, M., Mridha, M., Alam, A., Choudhury, N., Sharmin, T., Afsana, K., Bhuiya, A. (2010). Using formative research to develop MNCH programme in urban slums in Bangladesh: experiences from MANOSHI, BRAC. BMC Public Health, 10(0), 663-663. [More Information]

2009

Moran, A., Choudhury, N., Khan, N., Karar, Z., Wahed, T., Rashid, S., Alam, M. (2009). Newborn care practices among slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a quantitative and qualitative exploratory study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 9(0), 54-54. [More Information]

2008

Alam, M., Ali, N., Sultana, N., Mullany, L., Teela, K., Khan, N., Baqui, A., El Arifeen, S., Mannan, I., Darmstadt, G., et al (2008). Newborn umbilical cord and skin care in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: implications for the promotion of umbilical cord cleansing with topical chlorhexidine. Journal of Perinatology, 28(Suppl 2), S61-68. [More Information]

2005

Winch, P., Alam, N., Akther, A., Afroz, D., Ali, N., Ellis, A., Baqui, A., Darmstadt, G., El Arifeen, S., Seraji, M., et al (2005). Local understandings of vulnerability and protection during the neonatal period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: a qualitative study. The Lancet, 366, 478-485. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2023

A gender-based analysis of womens livelihoods and the impact on their health and nutrition status in rural Lao PDR, Kirkwood E, Alam N, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Collaborative Research Grant

2022

Exploring the barriers and facilitators for womens participation in reproductive, maternal and child health services in rural Lao PDR: a gender-based analysis, Kirkwood E, Alam N, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/EMCR Seed Grant

2021

Reducing household air pollution exposure to improve early child health and development; extending the intervention and follow-up of "Poriborton: the CHANge trial"., Raynes-Greenow C, Alam N, Billah S, Cvejic E, Dibley M, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies

2018

Addressing critical failures of Infant and Young Child Nutrition IYCN in South Asia: IYCN challenges faced by working women in urban areas, Dibley M, Alam N, Berry N, World Bank Group/Research Support

2017

The impact of cleaner cookstoves to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes in low resource settings - The HAPPeN trial, Raynes-Greenow C, Dibley M, El Arifeen S, Jalaludin B, Agho K, Thornburg J, Alam N, Goodwin N, Hayes A, Gurley E, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants

2016

Cash transfers and behaviour change communications to reduce child under-nutrition in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomized controlled trial to determine the most effective combination of interventions, Dibley M, El Arifeen S, Huda T, Hoddinott J, Alam N, Agho K, Goodwin N, Muthayya S, Laba T, Islam M, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants
Evaluating the approach to administration and dose of bovine lactoferrin to prevent neonatal infections in low birthweight newborns in Pakistan., Dibley M, Nisar Y, Alam N, Tarnow-Mordi W, United States Agency for International Development/Research Support
NUFNIP Formative Research for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition, Maternal anc Child Care and Hygiene and Sanitation Practices., Alam N, Berry N, Dibley M, Save the Children/Research Support
LANSA - Feasibility of an integrated agriculture and nutrition behaviour change intervention to improve maternal and child nutrition in rural Bangladesh, Dibley M, Alam N, Li M, McConchie R, Bokshi A, UK Department for International Development (DFID)/Research Grant

2014

M-SAKHI : Mobile health solutions to help community providers promote maternal and infant nutrition and health - A community-based cluster randomized controlled trial in rural India, Dibley M, Patel A, Muthayya S, Kelly P, Alam N, Laba T, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants
Effectiveness of an integrated program to reduce maternal and child malnutrition in Indonesia, Dibley M, Li M, Hayes A, Alam N, Ferguson E, Titaley C, Ariawan I, The Global Alliance For Improved Nutrition/Research Support
Collaborating with Pham Ngoc Thach University, Vietnam to assess feasibility of an intervention to prevent obesity in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Alam N, Baur L, Dibley M, Hong T, Trang N, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant

2011

A community-based cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to evaluate the impact of the use of iron/folic acid supplements early in pregnancy on the risk of neonatal mortalityBACKGROUND An effective program of antenatal iron folic acid, Alam N, Dibley M, Arifeen S, Agho K, Khan J, Rasheed S, Biggs B, Jeffery H, Huda T, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants

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