Publications
Published
Prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in Bangladesh: identifying gaps in awareness and misinformation
Biswas RK, Afiaz A, Jitu MHI, Chowdhury B, Sultana S, Moosa A, Kabir E, Bhowmik J, Koemel NA, Fontana L
BMC Public Health (2026)
ipd: An R Package for Conducting Inference on Predicted Data
Salerno S, Miao J, Afiaz A, Hoffman K, Neufeld A, Lu Q, McCormick TH, Leek JT
Bioinformatics, 41(2), btaf055 (2025)
More than just visits: Timing, frequency, and determinants of effective antenatal care in Bangladesh - BDHS 2007 to 2017-18
Jitu MHI, Afiaz A, Biswas RK
PLOS One, 20(5), e0321686 (2025)
Best practices to evaluate the impact of biomedical research software—metric collection beyond citations
Afiaz A, Ivanov AA, Chamberlin J, …, Leek JT, Wright C
Bioinformatics, 40(8), btae469 (2024)
Public opinion on COVID-19 vaccine prioritization in Bangladesh: Who gets the vaccine and whom do you leave out?
Biswas RK, Afiaz A, Huq S, Bhuiyan FM, Kabir E
Vaccine, 41(34), 5018-5028 (2023)
Public opinion on COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government’s immunisation performance
Biswas RK, Afiaz A, Huq S, Bhuiyan FM, Kabir E
Int J Health Plann Mgmt, 39(1), 119-134 (2024)
Sociodemographic risk factors of under-five stunting in Bangladesh: Assessing the role of interactions using a machine learning method
Mansur M, Afiaz A, Hossain MS
PLOS One, 16(8), e0256729 (2021)
A national assessment of elective cesarean sections in Bangladesh and the need for health literacy and accessibility
Afiaz A, Arusha AR, Ananna N, Kabir E, Biswas RK
Scientific Reports, 11(1), 16854 (2021)
Awareness on menstrual hygiene management in Bangladesh and the possibilities of media interventions: using a nationwide cross-sectional survey
Afiaz A, Biswas RK
BMJ Open, 11(4), e042134 (2021)
Impact of child’s cognitive and social-emotional difficulties on child abuse: Does mother’s justification of intimate partner violence also play a role?
Afiaz A, Masud MS, Mansur M
Child Abuse & Neglect, 117, 105028 (2021)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) with miscarriages, stillbirths and abortions: Identifying vulnerable households for women in Bangladesh
Afiaz A, Biswas RK, Shamma R, Ananna N
PLOS One, 15(7), e0236670 (2020)
Underreporting COVID-19: the curious case of the Indian subcontinent
Biswas RK, Afiaz A, Huq S
Epidemiology and Infection, 148, E207 (2020)
A systematic assessment on COVID-19 preparedness and transition strategy in Bangladesh
Biswas RK, Huq S, Afiaz A, Khan HTA
J Eval Clin Pract, 26(6), 1599-1611 (2020)
Relaxed lockdown in Bangladesh during COVID-19: should economy outweigh health?
Biswas RK, Huq S, Afiaz A
Int J Health Policy Mgmt, 9(11), 488-490 (2020)
Conference Abstracts
Multimodal Deep Learning for Pulmonary Embolism Screening Using Chest X-Ray and Electrocardiogram Data
Afiaz A, Salerno S, Lee SM, Mendelson A, Rush B, Samuel M, Tang M, Tohyama T, Ziegler J, Celi LA, Leek JT, Lam B
American Journal of Hematology, 101(S2), THSNA 2026 Proceedings (2026)
Preprints
Overstuffed sandwiches and separation anxiety: finite-sample variance estimation for penalized GEE with near-separated binary data
Afiaz A, Rahman MS
arXiv (2026)
Under review
Do We Really Even Need Data? A Modern Look at Drawing Inference with Predicted Data
Salerno S, Hoffman K, Afiaz A, Neufeld A, McCormick TH, Leek JT
arXiv preprint; under review (2025)
A Moment-Based Generalization to Post-Prediction Inference
Salerno S, Hoffman K, Afiaz A, Neufeld A, McCormick TH, Leek JT
arXiv preprint; under review (2025)
The joint effect of mother and child’s functional difficulties on anxiety and depression among children
Jitu MHI, Biswas RK, Afiaz A
Under review (2025)
Re-evaluating BMI Thresholds for Cardiometabolic Risk in South and Southeast Asia
Biswas RK, Afiaz A, Koemel NA, Fontana L
Under review (2025)