Short Biography
Currently, I'm working as a Senior Research Assistant at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. My current project is related to making Dhaka an Equitable Healthy City. I am working on Ambient Lighting in the household, Air Quality Monitoring, and Bicycling in Dhaka city studies. Previously I worked on child labor in the waste management sector of Bangladesh. Besides, I'm completing my master's in Water Resources Development at IWFM, BUET. I graduated in Geography and Environment from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. I have worked as Research Associate at the REACH Project, IWFM, BUET(a project of Oxford University), and as a Research Assistant at the SUST Research Centre. I have completed several research projects where GIS, Remote Sensing, Water quality testing, Time series Data Analysis, FGD, KII, and some other skills were necessary. I was involved in several volunteer organizations. Those involvement have enriched me with some enormous skills and experiences.
Current Projects
1. Project: PATHWAYS to Equitable Healthy Cities Donor: WELLCOME Trust Role: Co-I
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
1. Sara, H. H., Bayazid, A. R., & Quayyum, Z. (2022). Occupational Health Sufferings of Child Waste Workers in South Asia: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(14), 8628. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148628
Research Interests
Environment Ecosystem Environmental Health Urban Planning Water Resources Climate Change Urban health Natural Resources Pollution studies
Education
- MSc (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology)
- BSc (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
- Sylhet)