With medical background and training in demography and epidemiology, I plan to continue my research endeavor in the following areas:

a. reproductive epidemiology, including HIV and STD

b. program evaluation for family planning and MCH care

c. health care utilizations: problems and issues

d. quantitative research methods and complex population surveys

Population and Family Health Sciences, Reproductive health, reproductive epidemiology, family planning and MCH care, complex population surveys.

World Health Organization(WHO) Research Fellow, Sept., 1991- August, 1993

Ahmed, S. and W.H. Mosley. Simultaneity in Maternal-Child Health Care Utilization and Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Developing Countries. Demography 2002, 39(1):75-93.

(available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/demography/v039/39.1ahmed.pdf)

Ahmed S. et al. HIV incidence and STD prevalence associated with condom use in Rakai, Uganda. AIDS 2001, 15 (16):2171-2179.

(available at: www.aidsonline.com)

Becker, S. and S. Ahmed, The interaction of breastfeeding and contraception in Peru. Population Studies, 2001, 55: 165-179.

Sewankambo, NK, RH Gray, S. Ahmed et al. Mortality associated with HIV infection in rural Rakai District,Uganda. AIDS. 2000, 14(15):2391-400.

Gray, R.H., M.J. Wawer, N.K. Sewankambo, D. Serwadda, C. Li, L.H. Moulton, T. Lutalo, F. Wabwire-Mangen, M.P. Meehan, S. Ahmed*, L.A. Paxton, N. Kiwanuka, F. Nalugoda, E.L. Korenromp, T.C. Quinn. Relative risks and population attributable fraction of incident HIV associated with symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases and treatable symptomatic sexually transmitted diseases in Rakai District, Uganda. Rakai Project Team. AIDS 1999, 13(15):2113-23.

Wawer M. et al (coauthored). Results of a randomized, community trial of STD control for AIDS prevention, Rakai District, Uganda: Reductions in STDs were not associated with lower HIV incidence. Lancet 1999, (9152):525-35.

Caulfield, L.E., M. Bentley, and S. Ahmed, Breastfeeding and nutritional status in the first three years of life: An examination of Demographic and Health Survey data. International Journal of Epidemiology, 25(4):693-703,1996.

Caulfield, L.E., M. Bentley, and S. Ahmed. Prolonged breastfeeding and Malnutrition. Reply to Editor. International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 26, No. 3, pp. 678-679, 1997.

Akhter HH and S. Ahmed, Determinants of contraceptive continuation in rural Bangladesh, Journal of Biosocial Science, (24),261-268, 1992.

Akhter HH and S. Ahmed, "Contraceptive continuation and failures in rural Bangladesh", United Nations Methodologies for Measuring Contraceptive Use Dynamics, No. ST/ESA/SER.R/106, 1991. xii, 201 pp. New York, New York.

Akhter et. al., The need for prophylactic antibiotic after female sterilization: the case of tetracycline in Bangladesh, Contraception 42:297, Nov, 1990.

Ahmed, S. Evaluation of ACTION Project for High Risk Young Adolescents in Portland, Oregon. Research Report. Population Service International (PSI), Washington, D.C.,1996.

Ahmed, S. Data quality of KAP survey for condom use in Malawi. Research Report. Population Service International(PSI), Washington, D.C. 1996.

Ahmed, S. Contraceptive Use and Maternal-Child Health Care Utilization: A Search for Path of Joint Determination. Doctoral Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University. 1995-96.

Ahmed, S. Feasibility of Abortion Study in Bangladesh. Report . Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), New York. 1995.

Akhter HH and S. Ahmed, Determinants of Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of Research for Population, Essential Health and Reproductive Health and Technology (BIRPERHT) Report, 1991.

Akhter et. al., "An IUD study to assess follow-up for removal or reinsertion", Bangladesh Institute of Research for Population, Essential Health and Reproductive Health and Technology (BFRP) Report, 1988.

Ahmed, S. and W.H. Mosley. Simultaneity in Maternal-Child Health Care Utilization and Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Developing Countries. Hopkins Population Center Working Paper WP 97-03, 1997