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Academic Biography
Sonia Ahmed is a lecturer in Global Public Health at Teesside University. She is a public health nutritionist. She has been working on health, well-being, nutritional epidemiology, health inequality and community-based health interventions, mostly in Bangladesh and UK.
A few of the projects where she is involved in:
- Effectiveness of community health workers (CHW) and health equity in the low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) (Researcher, funded by Save the Children, 2019 - )
- Participatory intervention to promote better health and nutrition in Bangladeshi immigrant children of Tower Hamlets living in East London (Researcher, NIHR funded, 2015 - ).
- Aetiology of childhood rickets in Bangladesh (PI, funded by the Medical Research Council, UK, 2009-2014)
- Evaluation of SEARCH community engagement for health and well-being activities for older South Asian men and Chinese people living in Newcastle (Co-I, 2022- ).
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Aetiology of childhood rickets in Bangladesh, University of Cambridge
1 Sept 2009 → 14 Jun 2014
Award Date: 14 Jun 2014
Master, Maternal education with or without food supplementation improves nutritional status in moderately malnourished children, University of Cambridge
1 Sept 2005 → 14 Sept 2006
Award Date: 14 Sept 2006
Master, Iodine nutritional status and goitre in adolescent school girls, University of Dhaka
Award Date: 14 Aug 2003
External positions
Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University
17 Sept 2021 → 17 Sept 2024
Fellow , Durham University
21 Sept 2020 → 21 Sept 2023
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Community health workers and health equity in low‑ and middle‑income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice
Ahmed, S., Chase, L. E., Wagnild, J., Akhter, N., Sturridge, S., Clarke, A., Chowdhary, P., Mukami, D., Kasim, A. & Hampshire, K., 11 Apr 2022, In: International Journal for Equity in Health. 21, 30 p., 49.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Aetiology of nutritional rickets in rural Bangladeshi children
Ahmed, S., Goldberg, G. R., Raqib, R., Roy, S. K., Haque, S., Braithwaite, V. S., Pettifor, J. M. & Prentice, A., 5 May 2020, In: Bone. 136, 115357.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Complementary Feeding Practices for South Asian Young Children Living in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Manikam, L., Lingam, R., Lever, I., Alexander, E., Amadi, C., Milner, Y., Shafi, T., Stephenson, L., Ahmed, S. & Lakhanpaul, M., 5 Nov 2018, In: Nutrients. 10, 11, 1676.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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G182(P) Systematic review of infant and young children complementary feeding practices in south asian families: The developed countries perspective
Manikam, L., Amadi, C., Robinson, A., Stephenson, L., Shafi, T., Lever, I., Ahmed, S., Lingam, R. & Lakhanpaul, M., 24 May 2017, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. 102, p. A73-A74Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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G309 A systematic review of infant and young children complementary feeding practices in south asian families
Manikam, L., Robinson, A., Lever, I., Kuah, J., Vaidya, H., Alexander, E., Miller, G., Singh, K., Dawe, V., Ahmed, S., Lingam, R., Prasad, A., Dhamaratnam, A., Moen, C., Light, A., Sharmila, A., Theodoulou, I., Erotocritou, M., Lawal, K. & Lakhanpaul, M., 24 May 2017, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. 102, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review