Zobaida Ahmed

Lecturer

Zobaida Ahmed Piu joined Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka at 2016. She completed her bachelor and masters in Health Economics from the same institution. Currently she is doing Masters by Research in Economics at Macquarie University, Australia. Teaching philosophy: As a teacher she believes in “Application Oriented Learning” philosophy. Main focus of this philosophy is to restructure course material in such a way that it contains more real-life example-oriented explanation and demonstration such that students know where and how they can apply knowledge acquired during a course.

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Contact Details

Email: ahmed.ihe@du.ac.bd

Web site: https://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/IHE/2592

Teaching Areas

    • Statistics
    • Structure and Management of Health Sector
    • Development Economics

Research Areas

    Zobaida’s research interest is in the broad area of health economics including economic evaluation, consumers’ choice, healthcare financing. 

Selected Publications

    Piu, Z 2017. Factors determining the use of Skilled Birth Attendants at delivery by pregnant women of rural Bangladesh: A case study of the Shahorail village. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol-3, Issue-8, 2017(ISSN: 2454-1362)

    Piu Z A and Khanam M. Women empowerment and Maternal Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Bangladesh, Social Science Review. The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D, Vol.36, no.1, pp. 149-166, 2019

    Bhuiyan SM, Sultana N, Piu ZA and Khanam M: Regional Differences and the Determinants of Caesarean Delivery in Bangladesh: An Analysis Using BDHS Data, Oriental Geographer, vol.59 , no.1&2 , pp.67-82 , 2018 .

    Khanam M and Piu Z A: Determinants of Health Care Utilization Among the Aged People in Bangladesh, Social Science Review [The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D] , vol.35 , no.2 , pp.191-204 , 2018 .