Imteaz Mahmud is a medical graduate from Dhaka, Bangladesh and has eight years of experience in child health and nutrition. He joined ICDDR, B in 2016 as a Project Research Physician. He worked as a co-investigator on two clinical trials funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, designed to assess the synergy between different combinations of direct nutrition interventions in improving the weight-for-length Z-scores in a cohort of malnourished children.
Imteaz is a Chevening scholar for 2019-20. He holds an MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and an MBBS from Dhaka Medical College. He is a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr). Imteaz was a consultant for The Power of Nutrition. This innovative financing platform generates new funding by building effective partnerships and driving investment for nutrition programmes in low and middle-income countries. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Health at North South University. His most recent publication is "Mortality risk in infants receiving therapeutic care for malnutrition: A secondary analysis"
PUBLICATIONS:
- Mahmud, I., Guesdon, B., Kerac, M., &Grijalva‐Eternod, C. S. (2024). Mortality risk in infants receiving therapeutic care for malnutrition: A secondary analysis. Maternal & Child Nutrition, e13635. March 2024, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13635 (Affiliated with NSU)
- Mahmud I, Das S, Khan SH, et al. Gender disparity in care-seeking behaviours and treatment outcomes for dehydrating diarrhoea among under-5 children admittedto a diarrhoeal disease hospital in Bangladesh: an analysis of hospital-based surveillance data. BMJ Open 2020;10:e038730. Doi: 10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-038730
- Jeanette L. Gehrig et al., Effects of microbiota-directed foods in gnotobiotic animals and undernourished children. Science365, eaau4732(2019). Doi:10.1126/science.aau4732
- Amr Ehab, Md. Anwar Hossain, Imteaz Mahmud, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Rajat Das Gupta “Socio-demographic predictors of obesity among 12,975 adult ever married Egyptian women of reproductive age group: evidence from nationwide survey.” BMC Public Health, 2498 (2023), December 2023 Doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17397-7 (Affiliated with NSU)
- Ayana GM, Raru TB, Firdisa D, Fufa BG, Fisseha DH, Mahmud I, Roba KT. Zero Fruit and Vegetables Consumption and Associated Factors Among Children Aged 6–23 Months Old in Eastern Africa. Nutrition and Dietary Supplements. 2024;16:93-104 https://doi.org/10.2147/NDS.S458513 (Affiliated with NSU)
- Tasbir Amin, BSc, Amana Hossain, BSc, Nusrat Jerin, BSc, Imteaz Mahmud, MBBS, Md Ahasanur Rahman, PhD, SM Rafiqul Islam, PhD, and S M Bakhtiar UL Islam, PhD “Immunoediting Dynamics in Glioblastoma: Implications for Immunotherapy Approaches.” Cancer Control. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/10732748241290067 (Affiliated with NSU)
- Anene Tesfa Berhanu, Kedir Teji Roba, Imteaz Mahmud, Getachew Tollera, Aboma Motuma, Suleiman Yakubu, Bedasa Tessema, Jeffrey Misomali, Anne Walsh, Masresha Tessema. Ethiopian Children Missing Out on Nutrition Treatment Program: A Simple Spatial Survey Method (S3M II) (Pre-Print). Research Square. Doi: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6151650/v1
BLOG POSTS:
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
- Research for Nutrition Conference 2021 Oral presentation titled, "Anthropometric deficits and associated mortality among under 6-month-old infants taking inpatient therapeutic care in 12 countries: A secondary analysis" (13/10/2021 – 14/10/2021- Online Links: https://research-for-nutrition-conference.org
- 14th Congress of Asian Society for Paediatric Research (ASPR) Presented E-poster of my work on gender bias in health care utilization. (02/10/2018 – 04/10/2018 – Manilla, Philippines) Link http://www.aspr.jp/index.html
Chevening Scholarship – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and partner organisations (2019-2020)
Chevening is the UK government’s international awards programme that aims to develop global leaders. Funded by the FCDO and partner organisations, the recipients of the Chevening Award are personally selected by British embassies and high commissions throughout the world. Since 1983, over 50,000 professionals have studied in the UK through Chevening.
Amount: 50,000 GBP (Academic fees + monthly stipend + settlement fees + VISA processing fees + Air fare)
Link https://www.chevening.org
PROJECTS
- Pre-POC clinical trial to optimize lead microbiota-directed complementary food (MDCF) made of locally available food ingredients for the management of children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) (Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation): Co-Investigator
- A community-based clinical trial with microbiota-directed complementary foods (MDCF) made of locally available food ingredients for the management of children with primary moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) (Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation): ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04015999 (Co-Investigator)
- A community-based clinical trial with microbiota-directed complementary foods (MDCF) made of locally available food ingredients for the management of children with post-severe acute malnutrition- moderate acute malnutrition (post-SAM-MAM): ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04015986 (Co-Investigator)
- Progressing Prevention: Data-driven examples at sub-national level of wasting and stunting trends and implications for prevention programming (Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group): Consultant and co-investigator
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, United Kingdom, MSc in Nutrition for Global Health, 2020
- Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), 2014
Lecturer, Department of Public Health, North South University, Bangladesh
September 2022 - to date
Bangladesh Consultant-Monitoring and Evaluation, The Power of Nutrition, London, United Kingdom
December 2020 – September 2022
Study Physician, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 2019 – September 2019
Research Fellow, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
January 2017 – June 2019
Project Research Physician, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
December 2015 – December 2016
Intern Doctor, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh
October 2014 – October 2015
- Public Health Nutrition (PBH 681)
- Application of Computer Software in Public Health (PBH 714)
- Introduction to Biostatistics (PBH 611)
- Introduction to Public Health (PBH 101)
- Introduction to public Health Lab (PBH 101L)
- Public Health Nutrition
- Nutrition in Emergency
- Maternal and Child Health
- Adolescent Health
