MPH Modules Conducted

• Public Health Nutrition at BRAC JPGSPH & Health Policy at UMCG

Current Projects

• Improving Food and Nutrition Security by Enhancing Women's Empowerment

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices and deworming improve nutritional status and anemia of unmarried adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh
  Authors: Jolly SP,Roy Chowdhury T,Sarker TT,Afsana K
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1186/s41043-024-00579-3.
  Published on: 2023-11-13
• Prevention of social exclusion and role of antenatal care by BRAC community health workers in improving safe motherhood and neonatal care in urban slums of Bangladesh
  Authors: Jolly SP,Chowdhury TR,Rahman M,Alam A,Afsana K
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235340. eCollection 2020.
  Published on: 2020-07-08
• Mothers’ education and the effectiveness of nutrition programmes: evidence from a matched cross-sectional study in rural Bangladesh
  Authors: de Hoop T,Fallon S,Yunus FM,Munrat S,Jolly SP,Sehrin F,Aktar B,Ghani RBA & Sennett J.
  DOI/URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2020.1828998
  Published on: 2020-10-14
• Access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities: results from cross-sectional surveys in Bangladesh, Cameroon, India and Malawi.
  Authors: Mactaggart I,Schmidt WP,Bostoen K,Chunga J,Danquah L,Halder AK,Jolly SP,Polack S,Rahman M,Snel M,Kuper H,Biran A
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020077.
  Published on: 2018-08-20
• Evaluation of Maternal Health Service Indicators in Urban Slum of Bangladesh.
  Authors: Jolly SP,Rahman M,Afsana K,Yunus FM,Chowdhury AMR.
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162825.
  Published on: 2016-10-12
• Water-based hand sanitizer and mineral-enhanced micronutrient powder combined with nutrition, health and hygiene education reduces stunting among full-term low birth weight infants in Bangladesh: a 2X2 factorial, cluster randomized trial
  Authors: Shafique S,Sellen DW,Lou W,Chowdhury SBJ,Jolly SP,Zlotkin SH
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.3945/ajcn.115.117770.
  Published on: 2016-04-06
• Multiple micronutrient powders reduce stunting and anemia and improve language development among full-term low birth weight children in Bangladesh
  Authors: Shafique S,Singla D,Aboud F,Jolly SP,Zlotkin S.
  DOI/URL: https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.389.3
  Published on: 2014-04-01
• Impact of Health & Nutrition Pilot Project of Rural maintenance program (RMP): CARE, Bangladesh.
  Authors: Roy SK,Bilkes F,Islam K,Ara G,Tanner P,Wosk I,Rahman AS,Chakraborty B,Jolly SP,Khatun W.
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1177/156482650802900108.
  Published on: 2008-03-01
• An educational intervention prevents malnutrition of young children in rural Bangladesh: a randomized controlled trial.
  Authors: Roy SK,Jolly SP,Shafique S,Fuchs GJ,Mahmud Z,Chakraborty B,Roy S
  DOI/URL: doi: 10.1177/156482650702800401.
  Published on: 2007-12-01
• Impact of Zinc supplementation on subsequent morbidity and growth in Bangladeshi children with persistent diarrhoea.
  Authors: Roy SK,Tomkins AM,Akramuzzaman SM,Chakraborty B,Ara G,Biswas R,Islam KE,Khatun W,Jolly SP
  DOI/URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17615905/
  Published on: 2007-03-01
• Impact of Zinc Deficiency on Vibrio Cholerae Enterotoxin-Stimulated Water and Electrolyte Transport in Animal Model.
  Authors: 14. Roy SK,Tomkins AM,Ara G,Jolly SP,Khatun W,Chowdhury R,Chakraborty B.
  DOI/URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16796149/
  Published on: 2006-03-01

Handbooks & Book Chapters

Nutrition, Food Safety and Global Health
September 2022
DOI: 
10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_93-1
In book: Handbook of Global Health

Awards

• 2021: Improving food and nutrition security by enhancing women’s empowerment. Approved by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
• 2021: Dissemination and Uptake of Integrated Nutrition Messages for Schools. Approved by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Food planning and Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Food)
• 2021: An assessment of the health and nutrition of maternal, neonatal. under-two children and adolescent girls in BRAC Health, Nutrition and Population Programme (HNPP) and Endline survey for strategic partnership Agreement 2018. Approved by BRAC
• 2020: Development of integrated nutrition messages for schools. Approved by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Food planning and Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Food)
• 2019: Mapping hard-to-reach areas based on maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and reproductive and maternal healthcare (RMH) services in Bangladesh . Approved by UNFPA
• 2018: An assessment of the health and nutrition of maternal, neonatal. under-two children and adolescent girls in BRAC Health, Nutrition and Population Programme (HNPP) and Midline survey for strategic partnership Agreement 2018. Approved by BRAC)
• 2016-2017: WASH and Disability in Bangladesh: measuring the impact of a mitigation strategy- A randomized control trial (collaborative study between BRAC, IRC and LSHTM)
• 2015-2017: Evaluation of BRAC Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project- A randomized control trial (Collaborative study between BRAC and American Institute of Research, USA. Approved by PATH
• 2008-2010: Nestle Nutrition Institution, Switzerland, Postgraduate fellowship for the MSc in Nutrition and Health at the Wageningen University and Research
• 2004: Fellowship to assess vitamin C in fruits and vegetables from the University Grant Commission, Bangladesh
• 2000-2003: Merit scholarship for the post graduate degree from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Total Citations

408