Anika Bushra Boitchi
Anika Bushra Boitchi Lecturer, Department of Public Health and Informatics

PROFILE

RESEARCH INTEREST

Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention; Public Health Nutrition; Capacity Building for Health promotion; Health System Research

JOURNAL PAPER

Md Jamil Hossain, Quazi Maksudur Rahman, Md. Abid Bin Siddique, Md Wahiduzzaman, Lakshmi Rani Kundu, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Ayesha Ahmed, Most. Zannatul Ferdous, Afifa Anjum, Md. Munir Mahmud, Md. Maruf Hasan, Tareq Mahmud, Md. Naim Pramanik, Meheruba Khan, Examining the e-cigarette scenario based on distribution, availability, marketing, and banning: A GIS-Based qualitative study in Bangladesh, PLoS ONE, 19, 11, pp.e0312802, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312802

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312802

Zebunnesa Zeba, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Md Abdullah Yusuf, Mayisha Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman, Adneen Moureen, Ahmed Raihan Sharif, Prevalence and Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection and its Associated Socio-demographic Factors among Population in North-East Region of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11, 1, pp.30 - 37, 2024.

https://doi.org/10.3329/bjid.v11i1.67663

Gulshan Ara, Rafid Hassan, Md. Ahshanul Haque, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Samira Dilruba Ali, Kazi Sudipta Kabir, Riad Imam Mahmud, Kazal Ahidul Islam, Hafizur Rahman, Zhahirul Islam, Anaemia among adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women in the southern rural region of Bangladesh: Prevalence and risk factors, PloS one, 19, 7, pp.e0306183, 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306183

Gulshan Ara, David C. Little, Abdullah-Al Mamun, Baukje de Roos, Eleanor Grieve, Mansura Khanam, S. M. Tafsir Hasan, Santhia Ireen, Samira Dilruba Ali, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Marjoleine A. Dijkhuizen, Tahmeed Ahmed, Nanna Roos, Factors affecting the micronutrient status of adolescent girls living in complex agro-aquatic ecological zones of Bangladesh, Scientific Reports, 13, 1, pp.6631, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33636-8

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33636-8

Gulshan Ara, Kazi Istiaque Sanin, Mansura Khanam, Md. Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Fahmida Tofail, Baitun Nahar, Imran Ahmed Chowdhury, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Sarah Gibson, Kaosar Afsana, Sufia Askari, Tahmeed Ahmed, A comprehensive intervention package improves the linear growth of children under 2-years-old in rural Bangladesh: a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial, Scientifc Reports, 12, 1, pp.21962, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26269-w

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26269-w

Mansura Khanam, Kazi Istiaque Sanin, Gulshan Ara, Razia Sultana Rita, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Md Ahshanul Haque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Effects of Moringa oleifera leaves on hemoglobin and serum retinol levels and underweight status among adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh, Frontiers in Nutrition, 9, pp.959890, 2022. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.959890

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.959890

Shabnam Naher, Fazle Rabbi, Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Rajon Banik, Sabbir Pervez, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Forecasting the incidence of dengue in Bangladesh—Application of time series model, Health Science Reports, 5, 4, pp.e666, 2022. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.666

https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.666

Anika Bushra Boitchi, Shabnam Naher, Sabbir Pervez, Md. Mujibul Anam, Patients’ understanding, management practices, and challenges regarding hypertension: A qualitative study among hypertensive women in a rural Bangladesh, Heliyon, 7, 7, pp.e07679, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07679

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07679

Anika Bushra Boitchi, Shabnam Naher, Sabbir Pervez, Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors Among Women in a Rural Community in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study, Millennium Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2, 2, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.47340/mjhss.v2i2.1.2021

https://leappublish.uk/index.php/mjhss/article/view/33


CONFERENCE PAPER

Gulshan Ara, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Riad Imam Mahmud, Kazal Ahidul Islam, Hafizur Rahman, Samira Dilruba Ali, Zhahirul Islam, Tahmeed Ahmed, Anaemia Status and Associated Factors of Anaemia among Adolescent Girls, Pregnant and Lactating Women in Southern Bangladesh, 22nd IUNS-International Congress of Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan, 2022.

https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/icn2022/subject/PAB_T2_-98/date?cryptoId=

Gulshan Ara, Anika Bushra Boitchi, Mansura Khanam, Muhtarin Khayer Brohee, Deepika Nayer Chaudhery, Wameq Azfar Raza, Seenithamby Manoharan, Tahmed Ahmed, Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Status of Pregnant Women and Under Two- Years Children Among Beneficiaries of a Livelihood Improvement Program, D4N (Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia), 2021, Virtual Conference, led by POSHAN, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2021.

https://poshan.ifpri.info/delivering-for-nutrition-in-south-asia-implementation-research-in-the-context-of-covid-19/day-one/

Anika Bushra Boitchi, Shabnam Naher, Sabbir Pervez, Association of hypertension prevalence with body mass index and age among rural women in Bangladesh, American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting and Expo, Street NW Washington, DC, 2021.

https://apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/508892


Teaching

Course Code Course Title Semester/Year
PHI: 1104 Medical Anthropology BPH: Part - I , Semester - I
PHI: 1206 Practical: Biochemistry BPH: Part - I , Semester - II
PHI: 2101 Mental Health BPH: Part - II , Semester - I
PHI: 3104 Research Methodology BPH: Part - III , Semester - I
PHI: 3107 Practical: Research Methodology- Capstone Project BPH: Part - III , Semester - I
PHI: 302 Community Health and Community Diagnosis BPH: 3rd year
PHI: 407 Non-Communicable Diseases and Contemporary Issues BPH: 4th year
PHI: 5102 Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights MPH: Semester - I
PHI: 5207 Qualitative Research Methodology MPH: Semester - 2
WMPH-502 Health Education and Health Promotion Summer - 2024

Contact

Anika Bushra Boitchi

Lecturer
Department of Public Health and Informatics
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: 01872048854
Email: anika.boitchi@juniv.edu