Dr. Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, PhD, MPH, MBBS

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Dr. Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, PhD, MPH, MBBS

Dr. Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, PhD is a medical, scientific professional cum academician with 23 years of professional experience, including more than 13 years of experience in health research and project management and 10 years of experience teaching in public health. He has been working as an Associate Professor and Chair in the Dept. of Public Health at North South University (NSU), the leading Private University in the country. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan, and worked as an Assistant Professor at the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS). Besides, he worked as an External Associate Supervisor for Doctoral and Masters Level courses at the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He mostly teaches Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Global Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Research Protocol Writing, and Scientific Writing.
Dr. Hawlader achieved a PhD degree from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2014. Before this, he acquired a Masters from Karolinska Institute, Sweden, in 2006 and an MBBS (the equivalent of MD) from Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka University, in 1999. He has demonstrated his quantitative and qualitative research expertise by publishing more than 112 journal papers in peer-reviewed journals and three book chapters by reputed international and local publishers. He has multiple collaborative research papers with the US, Japanese, Australian, and Swedish collaborators. He has completed a good number of research projects funded by international and national donors. Dr. Hawlader did project consultancy work both nationally and internationally and supervised a significant number of PhD, MPhil, and Masters students’ supervision.

mohammad.hawlader@northsouth.edu

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Awards

1. DHS Fellowship Award by USAID, 2023
2. Awarded the Gold Medal from North South University for research excellence 2021-2022
Awarded Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbusho Scholarship), from Oct 2009 to March 2014 for Doctoral Study
3. Awarded the best paper of the year 2015 by the “Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health” for the research article “Ascaris Lumbricoids infection as a risk factor for asthma and atopy in rural Bangladeshi children. Tropical Medicine and Health. 2014; 42(2): 77-85.
4. Awarded best poster in international conference on genomics, nanotech and biotechnology, organized by North South University during May 14 th to 17 th 2017.

Research activities

Projects

Knowledge ,acceptance and willingness to pay for typhoid conjugate vaccine

PTSD symptoms, suicidal ideation, and insomnia among the firefighters in Bangladesh

Knowledge in identifying venomous snakes and first aid methods of snakebites among nursing students

Psychological and Behavioral Responses to Mpox in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study

Knowledge, Awareness on Dengue Vaccine Prevention and its Acceptance

Impact of Outdoor Light Pollution on Sleep Quality

Dietary changes during Ramadan intermittent fasting among university students

Quality of life and its association with insomnia among COVID-19 recovered postmenopausal women

Awareness about cervical cancer and its socio-economic determinants among adults

Awareness about HPV vaccine and its socio-economic determinants among parents

Acceptance of HPV vaccine among the parents

Role of Climate Change in Exacerbating Dengue Incidence in Bangladesh during July 2023

Publications

Peer-review Articles

Sabrina, F., Hawlader, M.D.H., Alam, M.N., Faruq, M.F.I., Bhuiyan, F.P., Banik, B. et al., 2026. Vaping and mental health: a cross-sectional study among university students in Bangladesh. PLoS One, 21(3), p.e0343502.

Rahman, M.L., Tanvir, K.M., Rahman, F., Chowdhury, S., Saha, S., Khan, M.A.S., Iktidar, M.A., Hasan, M., Tuli, S.N., Akter, S., Rahman, T., Nabi, M.H. and Hawlader, M.D.H., 2026. Lifestyle and environmental risk factors associated with cancer: a case-control study in Bangladesh. PLoS One, 21(1), p.e0328745.

Hawlader, M.D.H., Kibria, M.G., Munaf, N.B., Sabrina, F., Faruq, M.F.I., Hossain, A., Dalal, K. and Ray-Bennett, N., 2026. Prevalence and correlates of workplace stress among firefighting staff in Dhaka division, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional investigation. Discover Public Health, 23, p.41

Monju, I.H., Hossain, S., Fatima, F., Nila, N.K., Huda, T., Al Rashed, A., Islam, M.J., Hossain, A.T., Rozars, M.F.K. and Hawlader, M.D.H., 2026. Prevalence and determinants of excessive screen time among under-five children of Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. Discover Public Health, 23, p.62.

Rafique, T., Eva, F.N., Bhuyan, M.S.F., Barua, S., Malakar, J., Biswangree, A., Chowdhury, D.A., Afrose, T., Dutta, P., Nahar, J., Dey, D.M., Chowdhury, S., Iktidar, M.A., Roy, S. and Hawlader, M.D.H., 2025. Prevalence and determinants of work-related ocular symptoms among dentists of Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. PLoS One, 20(12), p.e0336159.

Publications

Other Publications

1. Basic Principles of Epidemiology. ASA Publications, Dhaka, Bangladesh. First Published in September 2023. ISBN: 978-984-35-4720-0.

2. Trends in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. NY 11788 USA. Publication date: January 2020. ISBN: 978-1-53616-435-0.

3. Climate change in Bangladesh. Springer Publisher. First Online; 02 August 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-75825-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75825-7_5