Personal Information:

Female

Married

Bangladeshi

Date of birth: 3rd December 1949

Mailing Address:  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) E-17, Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar G.P.O.Box 3854, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Telephone:  (880-2) 9115754 (off.)
(880-2) 8122512, 8116375 (res.)
Fax: (880-2) 8113023
E-mail: sharifa@sdnbd.org

Educational Qualifications:                           

Ph.D. (Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay, India. Dissertation: "Labor Force Participation and Fertility: An Empirical Investigation in Rural Bangladesh"

M. Phil (Population Studies); IIPS, Bombay, India.

M.Sc. (Medical Demography), London school of  Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

M.A (Economics), University of Dhaka.

Diploma in Journalism; University of Dhaka.

Current Job:

Senior Research Fellow, Population and Health Studies Division, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

Selected Major Research:

"Birth and Death Rates in Bangladesh, 1951-74" Bangladesh Development Studies (BDS) Vol. 7(2), 1979.

"The Defectiveness of the 1974 Population Census of Bangladesh"; Bangladesh Development Studies Vol.7 (3), 1979 (Joint author A. Miranda).

"Data from the 1974 Population Census: A Preliminary Analysis"; Research Report Series No.26, BIDS, 1978.

"Infant Mortality in Bangladesh: Trends and Differentials"; Bangladesh Development Studies; Vol.11 (4), 1983.

"Status of Primary Health Care in Bangladesh Specially in the Rural Areas"; M.R. Khan (ed.) "Evaluation of Primary Health Care and Family Planning Facilities and Their Limitations in the Rural Area"; Research Monograph No.7; BIDS, 1988.

"Population Birth, Death and Growth Rates in Bangladesh: Census Estimates"; Bangladesh Development Studies; Vol.18, No.2, 1990.

"Status of Health and Utilization of Health Care Services in Bangladesh"; in M.R. Khan (ed.) Bangladesh Health Finance and Expenditure Study; Research Monograph No.14, BIDS; 1997.

"Health Dimension of Poverty"; in Hossain Z. Rahman et.al (ed.) Dynamics of Rural Poverty: 1987-95; University Press Limited; Dhaka, (forthcoming).

"Family Planning Program Performance in Bangladesh: A Method Specific Overview           and Future Prospect"; Andrew Kantner et.al (eds.); Demographic and Health Survey       1993/94: Expanded Analysis; National Institute of Population Research and Training,       Dhaka, and East-West Centre, Hawaii, 1997(joint author Dr. Ahmed Al Saber et., al)

"Methodology for Identifying the Poorest at Local Level"; WHO Macroeconomics, Health and Development, No 27; Geneva; 1998; (joint author Dr. Binayak Sen).

"Not Quite, Not Enough: Financial Allocation and the Distribution of Resources in              the Health Sector"; BIDS Research Report No. 167, BIDS, Dhaka, 2000. (Joint author Dr. Binayak Sen).

"Health Status in Bangladesh: Evidence and Issues; in Fighting Human Poverty: Bangladesh Human Development Report 2000. BIDS/GOB/UNDP

Prenatal Health in Rural Bangladesh, BIDS, 1997 (mimeo)

Abortion in Rural Bangladesh: Nature, Cause, Problems, and Practices; BIDS, (mimeo), 1997

"Impact of Flood'1998 on Health in Bangladesh" (mimeo),1999.

"Economics of Pension and Social Security in South Asia: Special Focus on Sri-Lanka, India & Bangladesh (this is a collaborative study commissioned by the South Asia Network of Economic Institutions (SANEI), New Delhi. The collaborating institutions are: Marga Institute Sri-Lanka and Center for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala, India (Lead Institute), 2002

‘Health in Bangladesh: Review of Issues and Evidence’, a background paper prepared for facilitating preparation of the I-PRSP, Bangladesh, 2002

Other Professional Activities

Member, committee on "Health Manpower Planning and Policy, GoB " 1984.

Member, Technical Committee; " Health and Demographic Survey (HDS)"; Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Dhaka, 1996

Sub-committee member in Sector-wide Country Strategy for Fifth Population and Health Project; Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh,1997.

Member, Task Force on ‘Pro-poor Strategy, Health and Population Project 5 (HAPP-5), Ministry of Health; Government of Bangladesh; 1997.

Member, Technical Committee, Population Census 2001, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Ministry of Planning, Dhaka, 1998

Member, Technical Committee, Evaluation Unit (EU), IMED, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh (since 1998),

Membership of Professional Bodies:

Life member, Bangladesh Economic Association.

Ex-joint Secretary, and Life member, Bangladesh Population Association.

Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).