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Center for Global Health Faculty

MD. Hafizur Rahman

Assistant Scientist

Joint Faculty in the Divison of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Academic Degrees

  • MBBS
  • DRPH
  • MPH

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

615 North Wolfe Street, Suite E-8143 Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

Contact Information

Phone:
410-502-3886
Fax:
410-614-1419

Research and Professional Experience

Research interests include: - Improving health systems performance for the poor in low-income countries in Asia and Africa - Protecting the poor against the impact of health-related shocks - Developing innovations in health provision in low-income countries - Accessibility and utilization of health services for the poor and vulnerable

Keywords

health systems, poverty and health, reproductive health, Bangladesh, South Asia, Africa, nephrology

Honors and Awards

1999-2004 Gates Scholar, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 1996-1997 Ford Foundation Scholarship Award for pursuing graduate studies in public health, 2010 Faculty Grant Award, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health

Selected Publications

2012 ----- Rahman MH, Agarwal S. Drug Detailers and the Pharmaceutical Market in Bangladesh In Making health markets work better for the poor in Asia and Africa: A global challenge (book chapter in press)

Taha TE, Dadabhai SS, Rahman MH, Sun J, Kumwenda J, Kumwenda NI. 2012. Trends in birth weight and gestational age for infants born to HIV-infected, antiretroviral treatment-naive women in Malawi. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Vol 31. DOI: 10.1097/INE0b013e31824d9bd9.

 

2011 ------Viswanathan K, Hansen PM, Rahman MH, et al. 2011. Can community health workers increase coverage of reproductive health services? J Epidemiol Community Health. Doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200275.

Pongpirul K, Walker DG, Rahman H and Robenson C. 2011. DRG coding practice: a nationwide hospital survey in Thailand. BMC Health Services Research, 11:290. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/11/290/

Weiss WM, Rahman MH, Solomon R, Singh V, Ward D. 2011. Outcomes of polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP). BMC Infectious Diseases, 11:117. doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-117

Ekirapa-Kiracho E, Waiswa P, Rahman MH et al. 2011. Increasing access to institutional deliveries using demand and supply side incentives:early results from a quasi-experimental study. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 11(Suppl 1):S11. doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-11-S1-S11 (in press)

Pariyo G, Mayora C, Okui O, Seengooba F, Peters DH, Serwadda D, Lucas H, Bloom G, Rahman MH, Rahman MH, Ekirapa-Kiracho E. 2011. Exploring new health markets: experiences from informal providers of transport for maternal health services in Eastern Uganda. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 11(Suppl 1):S11. doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-11-S1-S10 (in press)

 

2010 ------Tuddenham S, Rahman MH, Singh S, Barman D, Kanjilal B. Care seeking for postpartum morbidities in Murshidabad, rural India. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics; 109 (2010): 245-254.

Kanjilal B, Mazumdar PG, Mukherjee M and Rahman MH. 2010. Nutritional status of children in India: household socio-economic condition as the contextual determinant. International Journal for Equity in Health 2010, 9:19 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-9-19.

Lunevicius R, Rahman MH. 2010. Assessment of Lithuanian trauma care service using a conceptual framework for assessing the performance of health system. European Journal of Public Health, 1-6. Doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckq184.

Kanjilal B, Mazumdar PG, Mukherjee M, Rahman MH. 2010. Nutritional Status of Children in India: Household Socio-Economic Condition as the Contextual Determinant. Future Health Systems working paper V, India series. 

 

2009 ------ Matsubayashi T, Peters DH and Rahman H. 2009. Analysis of Cross-country Changes in Health Services. In Peters DH, El-Saharty S, Siadat B, Janovsky K, Vujicic M (Eds). Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action. Washington DC: The World Bank

Pariyo GW, Ekirapa-Kiracho E1, Okui O, Rahman MH, Bishai D, Peters DH. 2009. Changes in Utilization of Health Services Among Poor and Rural Residents in Uganda: Are Reforms Benefiting the Poor? International Journal for Equity in Health, 8:39.

 

2008 ------ Rahman MH, Mosley WH, Ahmed S, Akhter HH. 2008. Does service accessibility reduce socio-economic differentials in maternity care seeking: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Journal of Biosocial Science, 40, 19-33.

Peters DH, Garg A, Bloom G, Walker D, Brieger W, and Rahman MH. 2008. Poverty and Access to Health Care in Developing Countries. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1136: 161-171. doi: 10.1196/annals.1425.011

Bloom G, Champion C, Lucas H, Rahman MH, Bhuiya A, Oladepo O, and Peters D. 2008. Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity. Global Forum Update on Research for Health, volume 5; 30-33.

Kiwanuka SN , Ekirapa EK, Peterson S, Okui O, Rahman MH, Peters D, Pariyo GW . Access to and utilization of health services for the poor in Uganda: a systematic review of available evidence. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2008. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.023 (in press)

Berliner AR, Fine DM, Lucas GM, Rahman MH, Racusen LC, Scheel PJ, Atta MG. 2008. Observations on a cohort of HIV-infected patients undergoing native renal biopsy. Am J Nephrol; 28:478-486. DOI: 1010.1159/000112851

Hass M, Rahman MH, Cohn RA, Fathallan-Shaykh S, Ansari A, and Bartosh SM. IgA Nephropathy in Children and Adults: Comparison of Histologic Features and Clinical Outcomes. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (in press)

 

2007 ------ Scheel PJ, Piccini J, Rahman MH, Lawler L, Thomas Jarrett. 2007. Combined Prednisolone and Mycophenolate Mofetil Treatment for Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. The Journal of Urology; 178: 140-144.

Bagnasco SM, Tsai W, Rahman MH, Kraus ES, Barisoni L, Vega R, Racusen LC, Haas M, Mohammed BS, Zachary AA, Montgomery RA. 2007. CD20-positive infiltrates in renal allograft biopsies with acute cellular rejaction are not associated with worse graft survival. American Journal of Transplantation 7 (8), 1968–1973.

Thomas A, Dropulic LK, Rahman MH and Duvuru G. 2007. Ureteral Stents: A novel risk factor for polyomavirus nephropathy. Transplantation 84(3), 433-436

Haas M, Montgomery RA, Segev DL, Rahman MH, Racusen LC, Bagnasco SM, Simpkins CE, Warren DS, Lepley D, Zachary AA and Kraus ES. 2007. Subclinical Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Positive Crossmatch Renal Allografts. American Journal of Transplantation; 7:576-585.

Fine DM, Garg N, Haas M, Rahman MH, Lucas GM, Scheel PJ, Atta MG. 2007. Cocaine use and Hypertensive Renal Changes in HIV infected individuals. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. doi:10.2215/CJN.02450607

 

2006 ------ Peters DH, Bloom G, Rahman MH, Bhuiya A, Kanjilal B, Oladepo O, Pariyo G, Zhenzhong Z, Sundaram S. 2006. Research for Future Health Systems. Global Forum Update on Research for Health, volume 3; 133-137.

Stanton C, Lawn JE, Rahman H, Wilezynska-Ketende K, Hill K. 2006. Stillbirth rates: delivering estimates for 190 countries. The Lancet; 367:1487-1494.

Haas M, Rahman MH, Racusen LC, Kraus ES, Bagnasco SM, Segev DL, Simpkin CE, Warren DS, King KE, Zachary AA and Maongomery RA. 2006. C4d and C3d Staining in Biopsies of ABO- and HLA Incompatible Renal Allografts: Correlation with Histological Findings. American Journal of Transplantation; 6: 1829-1840.

Estrella M. Fine DM, Gallant JE, Rahman MH, Nagajothi N, Racusen LC, Scheel PJ, Atta AG. 2006. HIV-1 RNA Level as a Clinical Indicator of Renal Pathology in HIV-Infected Patients. Clinical Infectious Diseases; 43:377-80.

Atta AG, Gallant J, Rahman MH, Nagajothi N, Racusen LC, Scheel PJ, Fine DM. 2006. Antiretroviral therapy in the treatment of HIV-Associated Nephropathy. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation . doi:10.1093/ndt/gf1337

 

Mehta TK, Hoque MO, Ugarte R, Rahman MH, Kraus E, Melancon K, Montgomery R, Sidransky D & Rabb H. 2006. Quantitative detection of promoter hypermethylation as a biomarker of acute kidney injury during transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings. doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.10.149

 

Before 2006 -------------- Rahman MH, Akhter HH, Chowdhury MEEK, Yusuf HR, Rochat RW. 2002. Obstetric Deaths in Bangladesh, 1996-97. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 77 (2); 161-69.

Yusuf HR, Akhter HH, Rahman MH, Chowdhury MEEK, Rochat RW. 2000. Injury related deaths among women aged 10-50 years in Bangladesh, 1996-97. The Lancet; 355:1220-24.

Projects

  • Information Research study on Maternal and Neonatal health in tribal regions in Gujarat state, India

      
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