Accelerating progression in tobacco taxation in low- and middle income countries (phase 3)

Principle Investigator: Dr. Shafiun Nahin Shimul , Professor , Institute of Health Economics

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Duration: 2024-

Amount:

Funding Authority: Johns Hopkins University, United States

Project Details

Other Collaborative Works:

Title 1: 

COVID-19 Bangladesh Projection & Vaccine Modeling Team

Collaboration with Oxford University

Position: Bangladesh Team Lead

Major Tasks: Covid-19 projections for Bangladesh

Duration: 2020-2023

 

 

Title 2: 

Impact evaluation of social recognition and motivational intervention for social service workers in Bangladesh to improve service provision for social security 

Collaboration with Word Bank

Position: Principal Investigator

Major Tasks: Designing RCT, implementation and analysis

Duration: 2018-2020

 

 

Title 3: 

Economic Evaluation (Cost-Benefit analysis) of Adolescent Nutrition Interventions

Collaboration with James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University (Funded by World Bank)

Position: Technical Team Lead of Economic Evaluation

Major Tasks: Carrying out cost-benefit analysis

Duration: 2018-2019

 

 

Title 4: 

Environmental costs of tobacco production

Collaboration with Bureau of Economic Research (Funded by WHO)

Position: Consultant

Major Tasks: Contributed to developing questionnaire, analyzing data, writing reports and policy briefs, presenting the findings to the policymakers

Duration: 2018-2019

 

 

Title 5: 

Betel-quid dependency in Bangladesh

Collaboration with National Non-Communicable Diseases Control (NCDC), DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family

Position: Team lead

Major Tasks: Led the study, presented to the policy makers

Duration: 2018-2019

 

 

Title 6: 

Introducing nutrition-sensitive social safety net programs (SSNP): Cost-Benefit Analysis of Rice Fortification

Collaboration with BRAC Research and Evaluation (RED): Funded by (FAO)

Position: Consultant

Major Tasks: Led technical team to do cost-benefit analysis, wrote policy briefs

Duration: 2017-2018