Shafinaz is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She joined the Climate Change and Health Working Group at PIK in November 2020 as a guest researcher. She investigates the role of behavior change intervention in improving food hygiene practices and reducing infections, as part of the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Shafinaz holds a MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and a Master in Public Health from the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. Her research interests include behavior change interventions, maternal and child nutrition, climate impacts on health and program evaluation.
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Affiliations
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Education
2016 – MSc in Nutrition for Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
2013 – Master in Public Health, James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh
2006 – Bachelor in Social Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Positions
December 2020 – Present: Doctoral researcher, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
January 2017 – November 2020: Research fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany
September 2018 – August 2019: Visiting Sr. research fellow, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh
August 2013 – September 2014: Behavioral change communication (BCC) advisor, Health, Nutrition & Population Program, BRAC, Bangladesh
Huda TMN, Müller-Hauser AA, Sobhan S, Hossain S, Sultana J, Rahman M, Islam MA, Gautam OP, Wendt AS, Waid JL, Gabrysch S. (2025): Effect of Behavior Change Intervention on Complementary Food Contamination in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2025 Feb 18:tpmd240336. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.24-0336
Sobhan S, Müller-Hauser AA, Gon G, Huda TMN, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Rahman M, Gabrysch S. (2024): Effect of a behaviour change intervention on household food hygiene practices in rural Bangladesh: A cluster-randomised controlled trial - International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114291
Waid JL, Wendt AS, Kader A, Sobhan S, Gabrysch S. (2024): Impact of a Homestead Food Production Program on Dietary Diversity: Seasonal and Annual Results from the Cluster-Randomized FAARM Trial in Sylhet, Bangladesh - The Journal of Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.10.014
Müller-Hauser AA, Huda TMN, Sobhan S, Lambrecht NJ, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Ali S, Rahman M, Gabrysch S. (2023): Effect of a Homestead Food Production and food hygiene intervention on biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction in children under 24 months in rural Bangladesh: A cluster-randomized controlled trial - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.23-0153
Lambrecht NJ, Müller-Hauser AA, Sobhan S, Schmidt WP, Huda TMN, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Kader A, Gabrysch S. (2023): Effect of a Homestead Food Production Program on the Prevalence of Diarrhea and Acute Respiratory Infection in Children in Sylhet, Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.23-0152
Lambrecht NJ, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Sobhan S, Kader A, Gabrysch S. (2023): Impact of a Homestead Food Production program on poultry rearing and egg consumption: A cluster‐randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh - Maternal & Child Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13505
Chandramohan S, Salinger AP, Wendt AS, Waid JL, Kalam MA, Delea MG, Comeau DL, Sobhan S, Gabrysch S, Sinharoy S. (2023): Diagnosing norms and norm change in rural Bangladesh: an exploration of gendered social norms and women’s empowerment - BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17213-2
Müller-Hauser AA, Sobhan S, Huda TMN, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Islam MA, Rahman M, Gabrysch S. (2022): Key Food Hygiene Behaviors to Reduce Microbial Contamination of Complementary Foods in Rural Bangladesh - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0269
Sobhan S, Müller-Hauser AA, Huda TMN, Waid JL, Gautam OP, Gon G, Wendt AS, Gabrysch S. (2022): Design, delivery, and determinants of uptake: findings from a food hygiene behavior change intervention in rural Bangladesh - BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13124-w
Seiermann AU, Al-mufti H, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Sobhan S, Gabrysch S. (2021): Women's fasting habits and dietary diversity during Ramadan in rural Bangladesh - Maternal & Child Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13135
