Teaching Areas

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Public Economics
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• International Trade
• Research Methodology

Research Areas

• Universal health coverage, healthcare-seeking behavior, health care financing, health equity, health care demand analysis
• Evaluation of social programs including health insurance, health, education, water, sanitation, hygiene, vaccination, immunization, nutrition, and social safety net programs.
• Economic evaluation of health care using cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and analysis of disease burden   
• National Health Accounts
• Estimation of health care cost
• Environmental and occupational health
• Economics of Nutrition
• Economics of Population
• Public Expenditure Review
• Feasibility Study

Interested in supervising students whose research interests are aligned with those of the Professor’s.

Selected Publications

• Sultana N. ‘Influence of working Environment on Health of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise (SMIE) workers in Bangladesh’ is published in March, 2019 in Jagannath University Journal of Arts, Volume 08, No. 02, July-December 2018.

 

• Bhuiyan S M, Sultana N, Zobaida Ahmed Piu, Moriam Khanam “Regional Differences and the Determinants of Caesarean Delivery in Bangladesh: An Analysis Using BDHS Data” is published in 2018 in the journal of Oriental Geographer, Vol. 59, No. 1&2, 2015.

 

• Sultana N., “Diseases Pattern and Health Care Seeking Behavior of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise (SMIE) Workers in Bangladesh” is published in July 2016 in the journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.70, No.2, December 2015.

 

• Sultana N., “Trends and Patterns of Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes in Bangladesh vis- a – vis other South Asian Countries” has published in July 2016 in the journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.71, No.1, June 2014.

 

• Rahman T., Bhuiyan S M, Sultana N, “Gaps in achieving Maternal Health related MDG in Bangladesh compared to some neighboring countries: will the past trend converge maternal mortality ratio to SDG target?” is published in The journal of Social Development, Vol. 28, No.1., June, 2016. 

 

• Jahan N., Howlader S. R., Ahmad Shamsuddin, Bhuiyan S M, Sultana N, Karim Suzana and Moin Uddin Ahmed, “Challenges and Prospects of Implementing Local Level Planning to Improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Services in Bangladesh: Evidence from Selected Upazilas” is published in the journal of  Social Science Review (The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D, Vol. 33, No.1, June, 2016.

 

• Jahan N. A., Sultana N., Bhuiyan S M, Ishaq F. “Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: Challenges and Prospects” is published in the journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, December 2015. 

 

• Jahan N. A., Howlader S. R., Sultana N, Ishaq F., Sikder Z.H., and Rahman T., “Health Care Seeking Behavior of Slum-Dwellers in Dhaka City: Results of a Household Survey” is published in 2016 in WHO publications, June 2015. 

 

• Sultana N. and Bhuiyan S M., “A Comparison of Costs at Different Tiers in Public and Private Hospitals for Inpatients of Some Selected Health Facilities in Dhaka” is published in June 2015 in the journal of The Dhaka University Studies (Journal of Faculty of Arts), Vol. 70, No.1, June 2013.

 

• Sultana N. ‘Influence of working Environment on Health of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise (SMIE) workers in Bangladesh’ is submitted for publication in International Journal of SME Development (IJSMED), Small & Medium Enterprise Foundation Royal Tower, 4 Panthapath, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh.
• Bhuiyan S.M., Sultana N., Piu Z.A, and Khanom M., Geographical variation and determinates of cesarean Delivery in Bangladesh: An Analysis Using BDHS 2014 data” Submitted for Publication in the Journal of ‘Oriental Geographer’, published by Bangladesh Geographical Society.

 

• Sultana N. and Bhuiyan S M., “Woman Entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh” is published in 2014 in the journal of The Dhaka University Studies(Journal of Faculty of Arts), Vol. 69, No.1, June 2012.

 

• Sultana N. and Islam S., “Industrial Relations System in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Bangladesh” is published in the Dhaka University Journal of Management, Vol. 2, No.1, June 2010.

 

• Sultana, N., “Defining and Measuring Health” is published in the journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.65, No.2, December 2008, Vol.66, No.1 June 2009.

 

• Sultana, N. and Bhuiyan S.M., “Governance and Corruption in Public health Care System: Experiences of some Developing countries including Bangladesh” is published in July 2011 in the Journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.64, No.2, December 2007, Vol.65, No.1 June 2008.

 

• Jahan N.A, and  Sultana N., “Health Insurance Schemes for the Development of Women Health Status in Bangladesh” is published in the Journal of Empowerment, a Journal of Women for Women, Vol.14, 2007.

 

• Jahan N.A, and Sultana N., “ Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases: Gender Differentials in Pattern and Causes ” is published in the Journal of  Social Science Review (The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D), Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2006.

 

• Begum H A, Bhuiyan S M, Sultana N., Molla A A, “Malaria All over the World: As a Disease Burden”is published in the Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine (JOPSOM , Vol. 25, No. 2, December 2006.

 

• Sultana N. et al., “Level of Gender Inequality in Health, Nutrition and Educational Status in Bangladesh” is published in the Journal of Pakistan Journal of Social Science, Vol.3, No. 2, 2005.

 

• Sultana N. et al.,“Delivery of Health Care through Micro Health Insurance Scheme: An Assessment of the Health Programme of Grameen Kalyan”

 

• Sultana N. and Haque R., “Key Policy Issues for Effective Health Sector Decentralization”is published in the Journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.61, No.1. June 2004.
• Sultana N. et al., “Choice of Delivery Care in the Urban Slums” is published in the Journal of The Dhaka University Studies, Vol.61, No.1, June 2004.

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