Nahid Akhter Jahan

Professor

Nahid Akhter Jahan is a Health Economist with 21 years’ experience in teaching, research, and consultancy. She joined the Institute as a Lecturer in 1999 and became a Professor of the Institute in 2019. She was the Director of the Institute of Health Economics from May 2013 to May 2016. She obtained her B.S.S. (Hons.) and M.S.S. degrees in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1993 and 1994 respectively obtaining first class in both. She did a second masters' degree, M. Sc. in Health Economics, from the University of York, UK, in the year 2001, with distinction. She has been teaching Health Economics, Health Care Financing, Economic Evaluation of Health Care, and Management Decision Analysis at M. Phil, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate level in the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka. Most of her research and consultancy relates to health care financing and costing of health services. Her fields of interest include household healthcare expenditure, budgeting, user fees, health insurance, health systems, pro-poor strategies, and quality of health care. She has been working as the principal investigator of the project titled “Evaluation of Community-based Health System Strengthening Program in UNICEF Supported Areas” since December 2018 under a program cooperation agreement between UNICEF, Dhaka and Institute of Health Economics. She has also worked as the principal investigator of the study titled “Situation Analysis and Bottleneck Analysis of MNCH services using EQUIST in Bangladesh” in 2020.