PhD, Medical Sociology

Research Interests: Physical and mental health, Stressors and stress process, Life course, Environmental health, Quantitative method

Education:

• BSS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sociology
• MSS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sociology
• MA, Texas Tech University, Sociology, Thesis: Child health, poverty, and climate issues in Bangladesh
• PhD in Medical Sociology, UAB, Dissertation: Adolescents' life stressors and mental health trajectories in young adulthood: Findings from the NLSY97 cohort

Select Publications:

• Hossain, M., Mahal, H.T. & Bradatan, C. (2020). “How migration, access to safe water and climate change can affect the COVID-19 pandemic evolution in Bangladesh opens a new website.” UN Environmental Migration Portal.

Select Teaching Experience:

• Instructor at the department of Sociology & Social Work, The People’s University of Bangladesh, 2010 - present (currently at study leave).
• Teaching Assistant, Texas Tech University:
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Homicide
  • Aging and Society
  • Inequality in America

Select Presentations:

• “Children’s health status and climate changes: an investigation on the coastal belt of Bangladesh.” American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference, New York (with Cristina Bradatan & Hosne Tilat Mahal). 2019.
• “Climate change and child health disparities in the coastal belt of Bangladesh.” Rural Sociological Society (RSS) Conference, Richmond (with Cristina Bradatan). 2019.
• “Climate Change-Induced Women’s Health Disparities: A Case of the Coastal Belt of Bangladesh.” Annual Conference on the Advancement of Women, Women and Gender Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock. 2019.
• “Being to Becoming: An identity crisis of the peasant community of Bangladesh.” Agrarian Anthropology: Insights and Pathways, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, India. 2017.