Rashida Ijdi

Education:

• MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
• BS, Applied Statistics, 2002

Research Interests:

• Burden of sexual abuse among adolescents and young adults in low-income communities.
• Reproductive health
• Maternal and child mortality

Publications:

• Ijdi, R. E. Tumlinson, K., Curtis, S. L. Exploring association between place of delivery and newborn care with early neonatal mortality in Bangladesh. (Submitted in PLOS One Journal, under review).
• Sing, K., Speizer, I. S., Ijdi, R. E., Calhoun, L. (2021). The Association of Empowerment and Maternal, Child, and Family Planning Outcomes in Plateau State Nigeria by Urban-Rural Residence. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 21,170(2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03659-y.
• Ahsan, K. Z., Ijdi, R. E., Streatfield, P. K. (2020). Is tracking and modeling Covid-19 infection dynamics for Bangladesh using daily data feasible? (Pre-print archive) https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.13.20130617.
• Ahsan, K. Z., Streatfield, P. K., Ijdi, R. E., Escudero, G. M., Khan, A. W., Reza, M. M. (2015). Fifteen years of sector-wide approach (SWAp) in Bangladesh health sector: an assessment of progress. Health Policy and Planning.31(5):612–23.

Awards and Honors:

• Graduate Research Assistantship 2021-2022 for doctoral study in the University of Florida, USA.
• Graduate Research Assistantship 2018-2020 for graduate study in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
• MEASURE Evaluation Research Fellowship award from UNC Carolina Population Center (CPC), UNC-Chapel Hill, from 2011 - 2014.
• ISRT Scholarship from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh for academic excellence during undergraduate study in 1997-2000.
• Board Scholarship for excellence in higher secondary certificate examination in 1995.

Links:

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rashida-Ijdi
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashida-eijdi/