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Institute of Statistical Research and Training

ISRT, University of Dhaka

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Dr. Md. Amir Hossain

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Office: Room 108
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Email: amir@isrt.ac.bd

Education

BSc (Hons), MSc (Dhaka), PhD (Jadavpur)

 

Research Interests

Environmental statistics in general and Ground water arsenic contamination problem in Bengal delta (Bangladesh and India) in particular. Application of statistical tools to measure and compare environmental situations in different locations. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) etc,

 

Publications (Peer Reviewed Articles)
  1. Arsenicosis and stigmatisation, Rasel Kabir, Olav Titus Muurlink & Amir Hossain (2015): Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1015435
  2. Regression Analysis for Data Containing Outliers and High Leverage Points. Asim K. Dey, Md Amir Hossain, and Kumer P. Das. (2015):, Alabama Journal of Mathematics, 39, ISSN 2373-0404
  3. Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in all 17 blocks of Nadia district in the state of West Bengal, India: A 23-year study report. Rahman, M.M., et al.. J. Hydrol. (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.10.037
  4. Water consumption patterns and factors contributing to water consumption inarsenic affected population of rural West Bengal, India. Amir Hossain, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Matthew Murrill, Bhaskar Das, Bimol Roy, Shankar Dey, Debasish Maity, and Dipankar Chakraborti., Sci Total Environ(2012), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.057
  5. Time series analysis model for particulate matter of air pollution data in Dhaka city. Md. Arafat Rahman and Amir Hossain. Asian Journal of Water, Environment and pollution,. Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 63-69.
  6. Regional Variation of Social Development in Bangladesh. Md. Arafat Rahman and Amir Hossain. International Journal of Social Science and Management (IJSSM) : Volume: 02, Number: 06, October-2012. pp 56-64.
  7. Indexing and Modling of Groundwater Arsenic data in Bangladesh: A Statistical Approach. Amir Hossain, Biml K. Roy, and Sharmodeep Bhattachariya, Physiol. Ecol. & Environ. Sci. 2(1 & 2): 31-49, 2011.
  8. Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in the state of West Bengal, India: A 20-year study report. Dipankar Chakraborti, Bhaskar Das, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhajan Biswas, A. B. Goswami, Bishwajit Nayak, Arup Pal, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Amir Hossain, Goutam Basu, Tarit Roychowdhury and Dipankar Das. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2009, 53, 542 – 551. DOI 10.1002/mnfr.200700517
  9. Ground Water Arsenic Contamination Situation in West Bengal, India:- A NineteenYears Study. Mrinal Kumar Sengupta etal. Bhu-Jal, quarterly journal of central groundwater board, India. Volume No. 24 , Number 2&3, April- Sept,2009.
  10. Groundwater arsenic contamination in Manipur, one of the seven North-Eastern Hill States of India: a future danger. Dipankar Chakraborti, E. Jayantakumar Singh, Bhaskar Das, Babar Ali Shah, Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Sad Ahamed, N. Rajmuhon Singh. Environmental Geology. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s00254-007-1176-x, pp.
  11. ‘Groundwater arsenic contamination in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand state, India in the middle Ganga plain and adverse health effects’ Nayak, Bishwajit, Das, Bhaskar, Chandra Mukherjee, Subhash, Pal, Arup, Ahamed, Sad, Amir Hossain, M., Maity, Priyanka, Dutta, Rathindra Nath, Dutta, Subir and Chakraborti, Dipankar (2008)’,Toxicological & EnvironmentalChemistry,90:4,673 – 694. DOI: 10.1080/02772240701655486
  12. Million Dollar Arsenic Removal Plants in West Bengal, India: Useful Or Not? Amir Hossain, Amitava Mukharjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 2006, 41 (2),  pp. 216-225.
  13. Ineffectiveness and Poor Reliability of Arsenic Removal Plants in West Bengal, India. Amir Hossain, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Debapriya Mondal, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Bimal K. Roy, Amitava Mukherjee, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2005, 39, pp.4300-4306.
  14. Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in Ganga-Meghna Brahmaputra (GMB) plain and its surroundings: a nineteen years study, Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain,  A. Mukherjee, M. K. Sengupta, B Das, B. Nayak,A. Pal, ,  D Chakraborti, Chinese Journal of Endemiology, 2007, 26(1), pp. 43-47.
  15. Arsenic Burden of Cooked Rice: Traditional and modern methods” Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amir Hossain, A. Mukherjee, S. Ahamed, B. Das, B. Nayak, A Pal, and D. Chakraborti. Food and Chemical Toxicology,2006, 44, pp 1823-1829.
  16. Groundwater arsenic contamination in middle Ganga plain, Uttar Pradesh-India: A future Danger? Ahamed, M. K. Sengupta, A. Mukherjee, M. Amir Hossain, B. Das, B. Nayak, A. Pal, S. C. Mukherjee, S. Pati, R. N. Dutta, Adreesh Mukherjee, R Srivastavaand D. Chakraborti, Science of the Total Environment, 2006, 370, pp 310 -322.
  17. An eight-year study report on groundwater arsenic contamination and health effect in Eruani village, Bangladesh and an approach for its mitigation. Ahamed, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, S. C. Mukherjee, S. Pati, A. Mukherjee, M. Amir Hossain, B Das, B. Nayak, A. Zafar, S. Kabir, S. T. Islam, Q. Quamruzzaman, M. M. Rahman, and D. Chakraborti, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2006, 24 (2), pp.129-141.
  18. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination: a global perspective with special emphasis to Asian countries, Mukherjee, M. K. Sengupta, S. Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, B. Das, B. Nayak, M. M. Rahman andD. Chakraborti, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2006, 24(2), pp. 142-163.
  19. Adsorption studies with arsenic onto ferric oxide gel in reducing environment: effect of matrix and speciation, Nayak, M. Amir Hossain, M. K. Sengupta, S. Ahamed, B. Das, A Pal, and A. Mukherjee, Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 2006, 41(3),  pp.333-340.
  20. Comment on Limited temporal variability of arsenic concentrations in 20 wells monitored for 3 years in Araihazar, Bangladesh. Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, Sad Ahamed, Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, A. B. Goswami andDipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2006, 40(5), pp. 1714-1715.
  21. Arsenic contamination of groundwater and its health impact on residents in a village in West Bengal, India. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhaskar Das, Amir Hossain, Dilip Lodh, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Dipankar Chakraborti. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005, 83(1), pp.49-57.
  22. Are some animals more equal than others? Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amir Hossain, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Khitish Chandra Saha, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Rabindra Nath Dutta, Garga Chatterjee, Dipankar Chakraborti. Toxicology. 2005, 208(1), pp.165-169.
  23. The magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its health effects to the inhabitants of the Jalangi one of the 85 arsenic affected blocks in West Bengal, India. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Dilip Lodh, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Quazi Quamruzzaman and Dipankar Chakraborti. Science of the Total Environment, 2005, 338 (3), pp. 189-200.
  24. Status of groundwater arsenic contamination and human suffering in a Gram Panchayet (cluster of villages) in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic affected districts in West Bengal-India: A semi-microlevel study. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Dilip Lodh, Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Quazi Quamruzzaman and Dipankar Chakraborti. Journal of Water and Health, 2005, 3 (3), pp.283-296.
  25. Murshidabad – one of the nine groundwater arsenic affected districts of West Bengal, India. Part I: Magnitude of contamination and population at risk. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Khondaker Abdul Asad, Amitava Mukherjee, and Dipankar Chakraborti, Journal of Toxicology – Clinical Toxicology, 2005, 43, pp.823-834.
  26. Murshidabad – one of the nine groundwater arsenic affected districts of West Bengal, India. Part II: dermatological, neurological and obstetric findings. Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Rathindra Nath Dutta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Khondaker Abdul Asad, Amitava Mukherjee and Dipankar Chakraborti. Journal of Toxicology – Clinical Toxicology, 2005, 43, pp.835-848.
  27. Comment on Reliability of a Commercial Kit to Test Groundwater for Arsenic in Bangladesh. Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2005, 39, 5501-5502.
  28. Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain. Dipankar Chakraborti, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Amir Hossain, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati, Kshitish ChandraSaha, R.N. Dutta, Quazi Quamruzzaman. Journal of Environment Monitoring, 2004, 6, 75N-83N.
  29. Expenditure pattern of the middle income group people in Dhaka city: A CPI perspective. Tasrif Jafar Siddique and Amir Hossain. Journal of Business Studies, 2004. Vol. XXV, No. 1. pp 181 – 196.
  30. Class performance o the secondary school teachers in Bangladesh: An evaluation. Md. Abdul Maleque, Ms. Mariam Begum, and Amir Hossain. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research, 2004, Vol.21-23, pp 17 – 36.
  31. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Ganga–Padma–Meghna–Old Brahmaputra Plain. Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, Amir Hossain, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad M. Rahman, Dilip Lodh, Uttam K. Chowdhury, Bhajan K. Biswas, Biswajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, Kshitish C. Saha, Dipankar Chakraborti, Subhash C. Mukherjee, Garga Chatterjee, Shyamapada Pati, Rabindra N. Dutta, Quazi Quamruzzaman. Archives of Environmental Health, 2003, 58 (11), pp.701-702.
  32. “Relationship between Class Characteristics of Parents and Participation Levels of Students: A Contemporary Phenomenon of Dhaka City”. A. Maleque, B. Nath and Amir Hossain. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research. 2002, Vol.24-25, pp 199-210.
  33. “Identification of Causes and Incidence of Low Attendance and Dropout from School: A Multivariate Analysis”. Amir Hossain and Pk.Md. Motiur Rahman. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research, 2002, Vol.21-23, pp 23-30.
  34. “Estimation of the Scale Matrix of the Class of Elliptical Distributions”. Amir Hossain and Anwarul H. Joarder. Dhaka University Journal of Science, 1999, Vol.47, No.2, pp.221-228.
  35. “Estimation of the Eigen Values of the Scale Matrix of the Class of Elliptical Distributions”. Anwarul H. Joarder and Amir Hossain. Statistica, 1996, Bologna, Italy.
  36. “Effect of Storage on the Physico-chemical Characteristics of Soybean Oil”. Amir Hossain. Bangladesh Journal of Biochemistry, 1996, Vol.2, No.2, pp 41-48.
  37. “Estimation of the Trace of the Scale Matrix of the Scale Mixture of Multivatiate Normal Distributions”. Anwarul H. Joarder and Amir Hossain (1995): Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, 1995, Vol. No. 3, pp 565-572.
  38. “Population and Poverty: Critical Policy Measures”. Pk.Md. Motiur Rahman and Amir Hossain. The Asian Economic Review, 1995, Vol. XXXVII, No.3, pp 507-518.

 

Book Chapter
  1. Arsenic contamination incidents round the world. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, DilipLodh, Bhaskar Das, Sad Ahamed, Debapriya Mandal, Amir Hossain, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Dipankar Chakraborti. Book: Managing Arsenic in the Environment: From Soil to Human Health, Editor : Prof Ravi Naidu, Euan Smith, Gary Owens, Prasun Bhattacharya, Peter Nadebaum, CSIRO publishing, Australia. 2006, pp 3-30.
  2. Groundwater Arsenic Exposure in India, Dipankar Chakraborti, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, DilipLodh, Sad Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, Gautam Kumar Basu, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Book:  Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects V, Edited by W.R.Chappell, C.O.Abernathy, R.L.Calderon, 2003; Publisher: Elsevier science, Amsterdam-Lausanne-New York-Oxford-Tokyo. Pp.3-24.

 

Conference Attended
  1. Amir Hossain (2016): Efficiency of arsenic removal plants installed in West Bengal India: International conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC 2016). Held at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro during September 30 – October 2, 2016. USA
  2. Amir Hossain (2013): Arsenic contamination problem in Bangladesh. Workshop on National Statistical Conference. Held in the 20-21th December, 2013. Organized by Statistics Department, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
  3. Amir Hossain (2012): Indexing and Modeling of Groundwater Arsenic Data in Bangladesh: A Statistical Approach. International Statistical Conference. Held in the 27-29th December, 2012. Organized by Bangladesh Statistical Association,
  4. Amir Hossain (2004). “Ineffectiveness and Poor Reliability of Arsenic Removal Plants Installed in Arsenic Affected Areas of India”, International Conference on Arsenic contamination and its mitigation strategies. Held in 26-27 December, 2004. Organized by DCH-SOES in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  5. Amir Hossain (2002): “Non-Parametric Selected Rank Set Sampling in the Presence of Errors in Ranking”. International Conference on Resent Trend in Probability and Statistics. Held in December31, 2002 to January 2, 2003. Guwahati University, Guwahati, India.
  6. M. Amir Hossain and Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman (1993): Availability of Energy (Caloie) and Requirements in Bangladesh, 1991-2000. Fourth National Statistical Conference. Held on the 18-19th December, 1992. Bangladesh Statistical Association, ISRT, D.U.

 

Professional Membership and Involvement
  • Life member, Bangladesh Statistical Association. (Publication Secretary, National Organizing committee)
  • Life member, Dhaka University Statistics Department Alumni Association. (Member, Executive committee)
  • Member, National Statistical Council, Government of Bangladesh.
  • Member, Standing Technical Committee, Census and housing count 2011, Bangladesh
  • Member, Steering Committee, Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2009-2012, Bangladesh.
  • Member, National Advisory Committee, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2010, Bangladesh.
  • Member, National Advisory Committee, Sample Vital Registration System Project (SVRS), Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh.
  • Member, Technical Committee, Demographic and Health Wing, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh