Dr. Nasrin Sultana :: Faculty Profile

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Nasrin Sultana is a Professor of Health Economics at the Institute of Health Economics (IHE), University of Dhaka, with over 25 years of experience in teaching and research in Economics and Health Economics. She was the Director of Institute of Health Economics from 2019 to 2022. Currently she serves as the Provost of Shamsunnahar Hall at the University of Dhaka. ...

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Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Ph.D.	Health Economics	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2014
Masters	Social Science	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2002
Bachelor	Social Science	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2001
H.S.C	Humanities	Jessore	Bangladesh	1995
S.S.C	Humanities	Jessore	Bangladesh	1993

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Independent Director	Mercantile bank PLC	Bangladesh	Feb 2026	Present
Provost	Shamsunnahar Hall	University of Dhaka	Sep 2024	Present
Professor	Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nov 2019	Present
Director	Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	May 2019	May 2022
Associate Professor	Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Oct 2014	Nov 2019
Assistant Professor	Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Jun 2006	Oct 2014
House Tutor	Shamsunnahar Hall, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Mar 2003	Feb 2013
Lecturer	Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Dec 2002	Jun 2006
Research Associate	Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP)	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nov 2001	Sep 2002
Research Associate	Palli-Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSS)	Bangladesh	Nov 2001	Sep 2002

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Adolescent Health	Determinants of adolescent pregnancy
maternal and child health	Awareness regarding maternal complications
Public Expenditure Review	To conduct PER
Reproductive Health and Nutrition Services	Conducting a research of determinants of adolescent mothers in Bangladesh
National Health Accounts	To conduct NHA
Feasibility Study of Health Projects	I have worked a Co -Principal Investigator of a project conducting feasibility study of six medical colleges in Bangladesh.
Non-Communicable Diseases	- Effects of COVID-19 on Major NCDs -Disease burden of Dengue disease - High out of pocket expenditure due to increasing NCDs
Food Security and Nutrition	-Adolescent mother and health status of mother and child Food adultration
Family Planning Issues	-unmeet need of FP -stagnant population growth
Equity in Health Care	-gerder inequity -people with disability -health status of cyclone prone areas
Budgeting and Planning of Local Level	-under utilization of allocated budget -How to improve the budgetary allocation
Healthcare Financing	-Resource mobilization Community financing
Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Care	- access to health services MCH of marginazed women aging population cesarian delivery
Evaluation of Health Care	health care cost decision making benefit cost estimation
Costing and Efficiency	estimation of health care cost facility efficiency

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study	Title	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor(s)	Name of Student(s)	Area of Research	Current Completion
M.Phil	Feeding Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Parents: Impact on Child Growth	Supervisor		Md Harun Ar Rashid		Current Year

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
Facility Readiness	Assessing the community awareness and facility readiness for providing maternal health services in selected areas of Bangladesh	MOHFW	01-07-2025
Adolescent Health	"Determinants of Institutional Delivery among the Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh	UGC, MoE	08-10-2024	07-10-2025	N/A
Primary Health Care	"Bangladesh’s Strengthening Local Level Health Systems (SLLHS)"	USAID	07-10-2024	07-10-2029	N/A
Storage and dispensing of Medicine	Economic Analysis of Modernization of storage dispensing mechanism of medicine at primary and secondary level healthcare facilities in Bangladesh"	MOHFW	26-08-2024	03-03-2025	N/A
Health System	Need Assessment of Health Care Facilities and Health Work Force for 2041 and Related Services	NIPORT, MOHFW	01-07-2023	31-12-2023	N/A
Family Planning	Family Planning Spending Assessment (FPSA) in Bangladesh for FY 2020-2021	Avenir Health, USA	01-08-2021	12-09-2021	N/A
Feasibility Study	Feasibility Study for Establishment of 19 Hostels in 10 Medical Colleges	Medical Education and Family Welfare Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-05-2021	30-06-2021	N/A
Reproductive Health and Nutrition Services	Determine the Role of Local Government in Facilitating Reproductive Health and Nutrition Services in Bangladesh	National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-03-2021	12-09-2021	N/A
Primary Health Care	Developing Detail Implementation Design and Operational Plan of the Urban Primary Health Care (PHC) for the Period of October to December 2020	UNICEF	26-11-2020	04-04-2021	N/A
Primary Health Care	PHC Service Delivery Operational Measures: Country Data Collection	Thinkwell LLC	01-09-2020	31-10-2020	N/A
Universal Health Coverage	Enhancing Essential Services Provision for Universal Health Coverage (EESPUHC), in the context of COVID-19	Thinkwell LLC	01-09-2020	12-09-2021	N/A
Family Planning	Family Planning Spending Assessment (FPSA) for FY 2019-2020 in Bangladesh	Avenir Health, USA	01-07-2020	12-09-2021	N/A
Healthcare Seeking Behavior	Healthcare Seeking Behavior of SSK Card Holders	Health Economics Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-07-2020	30-06-2021	N/A
Healthcare Costing	Costing of OPD Benefit Package for SSK Cardholders	Health Economics Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-07-2020	30-06-2020	N/A
Health Insurance	Ensuring a healthy environment for workers’ safety amid Covid-19: A model for RMG sector	Shojag Coalition (Naripokkho, BLAST, SNV Netherlands, Christian Aid)	01-05-2020	31-07-2020	N/A
Feasibility Study	Feasibility Study for Establishment of Three Medical Universities and Two Nursing Colleges	Medical Education and Family Welfare Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-05-2020	30-06-2021	N/A
Family Planning	Family Planning Spending Assessment (FPSA) for FY 2018-2019 in Bangladesh	Avenir Health, USA	01-01-2020	31-03-2020	N/A
Feasibility Study	Feasibility Study for Establishment of Six Medical College and Hospitals	Health Services Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	01-01-2020	31-12-2020	N/A
Family Planning	Costed Implemented Plan (CIP) for family planning program in Bangladesh	DGFP, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and UNFPA and Pathfinder International	01-10-2019	31-03-2020	N/A
Reproductive Health	Endline Survey in Project Areas in Five Districts for the Project on ‘Improving Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights Including Maternal and Newborn Health in Bangladesh	UNICEF	01-06-2019	12-09-2021	N/A
Family Planning	Family Planning Spending Assessment (FPSA) for FY 2015-2016	Avenir Health, USA	01-01-2018	01-03-2018	N/A
Reproductive Health	Baseline Survey in Project Areas in Five Districts for the Project on ‘Improving Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights Including Maternal and Newborn Health in Bangladesh	UNICEF	01-01-2017	31-12-2020	N/A
Local Level Planning	Effects of Implementing UNICEF-Supported Local Level Planning for Improvement of MNCH Services in Bangladesh: Baseline Assessment in Selected Upazilas	UNICEF	01-03-2015	31-12-2016	N/A
Local Level Planning	Analysis of Investment Case, Use of Pool Fund and Current Local Level Planning for Improvement of Maternal and Child Health Care in Bangladesh	UNICEF	01-09-2014	28-02-2015	N/A
Health Economics	A comparison between public and private hospitals from the provider side, and some reflections on patients’ expectations from these facilities in relation to charges and fees	WHO	01-01-2011	30-11-2010	N/A
Health, Nutrition and Population Sector	Fiscal space Assessment of Health, Nutrition and Population sector in Bangladesh	WHO	10-01-2010	30-11-2010	N/A
Health Insurance	Delivery of Health Care through Micro Health Insurance Scheme: An Assessment of the Health Programme	Grameen Kalyan	01-04-2005	30-06-2005	N/A
Reproductive Health	Strengthening Reproductive Health Services for the Urban Poor	UNFPA	01-11-2004	30-09-2005	N/A
Health Insurance	Introduction of Health Insurance Scheme for the Improvement of Health Status of the Garment workers in Bangladesh: A study of some Selected Garment Factories	DFID	01-01-2003	31-05-2003	N/A

Invited Talk

SL	Collaboration & Membership Name	Type	Membership Year	Expire Year
1	Dhaka University Health Economics Alumni Association (DUHEAA)	General Member	2020	Life Time
2	Dhaka University Economics Department Alumni Association (DUEDAA)	General Member	2020	Life Time
3	Health Economic Association of Bangladesh (HEAB)	General Member	2020	Life Time
4	Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA)	General Member	2020	Life Time

Book
1	Jahan, N. A., Howlader, S. R., Sultana, N., Ishaq, F., Sikder, Z. H. and Rahman, T. Health Care Seeking Behavior of Slum-Dwellers in Dhaka City: Results of a Household Survey. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Health Economics Unit (HEU), MoHFW; World Health Organization (WHO), 2015 . View More
2	Hamid, S. A., Bhuiyan, S. M. and Sultana, N. Delivery of Health Care through Micro Health Insurance Scheme: An Assessment of the Health Programme of Grameen Kalyan. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Grameen Kalyan, 2005 .

Journal Article
1	Nasrin Sultana, Sharmeen Mobin Bhuiyan and Farah Ishaq : Impacts of Covid-19 on the Treatment of Kidney Dialysis Patients in Bangladesh: Lessons Learned and Future Directions, Eur. J. Med. Health Sci. , vol.7 , no.3 UniversePG , pp.533-543 , 2025 .
2	Sultana N and Shimul S N, Hussain M, Faisel J A, Hamid SA, , Kuddus MA :  “Impact of alternative Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: a modeling study.” PONE-D-21-27150R4 - [EMID:7d9458bed1b791db]. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare. 20010209.v1., PLOS ONE. , vol.V1 the Public Library of Science (PLOS) , 2024 .
3	Sultana N, Bhuiyan, S M., Kadir F., Kabir M I. :  “Effects of Covid-19 on Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Services in Bangladesh”. Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D. Vol. No., Issue No & Page No: Vol. 40, No. 2, December 2023., Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D. , vol.40 , no.2 The Faculty of Social Sciences , 2023 .
4	 Sultana N,  Ling Liu , Di Liang , Saeed Anwar , Zunaira Michael, Shrinkhala Barun Shrestha and Jiayan Huang : Over looked Impact of less Severe Physical Violence on antenatal care visits: Findings from south Asia, Journal of Global Health. Vol. 13. 04155. (impact factor:6.1) , vol.13 International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) , 2023 .
5	 Azim MR, Sultana N, Tulon KN, Islam MS, Hamid SA : Analyzing family planning expenditure in Bangladesh., , vol.2 International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) , 2022 .
6	Bhuiyan S M and Sultana N. :  “Technical Efficiency and Productivity at the Community Clinics in Bangladesh: Using Data Envelopment Analysis” is published in , Vol. 2, December 2020, pp. 39-50., The Journal of Population and Development , vol.2 Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka , pp.39-50 , 2020 .
7	Bhuiyan, S. M. and Sultana, N. : Efficiency across Hospitals in Bangladesh: Results from Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Social Sciences Review [The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D] , vol.37 , no.2 , 2020 .
8	Sultana, N. : Influence of working Environment on Health of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise (SMIE) workers in Bangladesh, Jagannath University Journal of Arts , vol.8 , no.2 , 2019 .
9	Bhuiyan, S. M., Sultana, N., Piu, Z. A. and Khanam, M. : Regional Differences and the Determinants of Caesarean Delivery in Bangladesh: An Analysis Using BDHS Data, Journal of Oriental Geographer , vol.59 , no.1&2 , 2015 .
10	Sultana, N. : Diseases Pattern and Health Care Seeking Behavior of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise (SMIE) Workers in Bangladesh, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.70 , no.2 , 2015 .
11	Sultana, N. : Trends and Patterns of Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes in Bangladesh vis- a – vis other South Asian Countries, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.71 , no.1 , 2014 .
12	Rahman, T., Bhuiyan, S. M. and Sultana, N. : Gaps in achieving Maternal Health related MDG in Bangladesh compared to some neighboring countries: will the past trend converge maternal mortality ratio to SDG target?, The journal of Social Development , vol.28 , no.1 , 2016 .
13	Jahan, N., Howlader, S. R., Ahmad, S., Bhuiyan, S. M., Sultana, N., Karim, S. and Ahmed, M.U. : Challenges and Prospects of Implementing Local Level Planning to Improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Services in Bangladesh: Evidence from Selected Upazilas, Journal of Social Science Review [The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D] , vol.33 , no.1 , 2016 .
14	Jahan, N., Sultana, N., Bhuiyan, S. M. and Ishaq, F. : Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: Challenges and Prospects, Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences , vol.4 , no.1 , 2015 .
15	Sultana, N. and Bhuiyan S. M. : A Comparison of Costs at Different Tiers in Public and Private Hospitals for Inpatients of Some Selected Health Facilities in Dhaka, The Dhaka University Studies (Journal of Faculty of Arts) , vol.70 , no.1 , 2013 .
16	Sultana, N. and Bhuiyan, S. M. : Woman Entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh, The Dhaka University Studies (Journal of Faculty of Arts) , vol.69 , no.1 , 2012 .
17	Sultana, N. and Islam, S. : Industrial Relations System in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Bangladesh, The Dhaka University Journal of Management , vol.2 , no.1 , 2010 .
18	Sultana, N. : Defining and Measuring Health, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.65 , no.2 , 2008 .
19	Sultana, N. and Bhuiyan, S. M. : Governance and Corruption in Public health Care System: Experiences of some Developing countries including Bangladesh, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.64 , no.2 , 2007 .
20	Jahan, N. A. and Sultana, N. : Health Insurance Schemes for the Development of Women Health Status in Bangladesh, Journal of Empowerment, a Journal of Women for Women , vol.14 , no.1 , 2007 .
21	Jahan, N. A. and Sultana, N. : Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases: Gender Differentials in Pattern and Causes, Journal of Social Science Review [The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D] , vol.23 , no.2 , 2006 .
22	Begum, H. A., Bhuiyan, S. M., Sultana, N. and Molla, A. A. : Malaria All over the World: As a Disease Burden, The Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine , vol.25 , no.2 , 2006 .
23	Sultana, N. and et al. : Level of Gender Inequality in Health, Nutrition and Educational Status in Bangladesh, Journal of Pakistan Journal of Social Science , vol.13 , no.2 , 2005 .
24	Sultana, N. and Haque R. : Key Policy Issues for Effective Health Sector Decentralization, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.61 , no.1 , 2004 .
25	Hamid, S. A., Hossain, I., Sultana, N., Molla, A. A. and Hoque, M. M. : Choice of Delivery Care in the Urban Slums, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.61 , no.1 , 2004 .

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
National	Prime Minister's Medal	1995	Bangladesh	First Position in Combined Merit List in Jessore Board (Humanities group, HSC Exam)
National	Prime Minister's Medal	1993	Bangladesh	Seventh Position in combined merit list in SSC Examination ( Jessore Board, Humanities group)

Name & designation Dr. Nasrin Sultana Professor

Department Institute of Health Economics Institutes

Email nasrin.sultana@du.ac.bd

Phone 01766597679