Asibul Islam Anik

• Focal person of Health Programs (both Public and Mental Health) for the underprivileged communities of six districts in Bangladesh
• Designing the intervention plan, implementation strategies, success indicators, conducting stakeholder meetings (if necessary), and preparing the budget for each research project
• Preparing, drafting, and submitting Research proposal for IRB (ethical clearance) and Grant application
• Developing the study design, methods (mixed-method), data collection tools; and determining the sample size
• Recruiting research employees and trainees; conducting field visit during data collection; performing statistical analyses and interpreting the findings; writing whole report (baseline and endline, if applicable)
• Preparing manuscript to disseminate to the donors and to publish the research in peer-reviewed journals
• Till now, successfully completed 21 projects, contributing into intervention design, assessing the impact, and developing evidence-based policies to sustain the development in the communities

• Completed Projects:

- Child Maltreatment in Bangladesh: Magnitude and Pattern Portrayed in Daily Newspapers of Bangladesh
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and NCDs among Adult in Later Life: A Cross Sectional Study
- Prevalence and Determinants of Hypertension among Urban Slum Dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Risk perception and risk communication regarding COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh from healthcare providers’ view
- Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 positive patients in a selected rural community of Bangladesh

• For all these community-based public health projects, my responsibilities were: protocol writing, research tool development, intervention designing, data collection, field visit, data analysis and interpretation, report and manuscript writing, and oral presentation in conferences.