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Associate Professor Neeloy Alam is a health social scientist specializing in Medical Anthropology at the University of Sydney's Sydney School of Public Health. He focuses on integrating qualitative methods into global health interventions, particularly in maternal and child nutrition, household air pollution, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture. His work spans South/Southeast Asia and Africa, with projects addressing implementation research in public health interventions. He teaches postgraduate courses in qualitative research, medical anthropology, and public health project management. Current projects include studies on infant nutrition challenges in South Asia, clean cookstove impacts, and adolescent health in Vietnam. Alam collaborates with institutions like the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and the South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network (SAIFRN). His research has directly influenced neonatal skincare policies in Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.
Research interests include maternal and child nutrition, household air pollution reduction, and the use of mixed-methods approaches to evaluate complex health interventions. He has conducted trials on cash transfers for nutrition improvement, clean cookstove efficacy, and lactoferrin supplementation for neonatal infections. Recent work explores mobile health (mHealth) solutions for maternal health in India and Myanmar, and peer education programs for adolescents in Vietnam. Alam has extensive international collaborations with universities in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.
Key projects include the Shonjibon Trial (cash transfers + mobile counseling for undernutrition reduction), Poriborton Trial (LPG cookstoves for perinatal outcomes), and M-SAKHI (mHealth for maternal nutrition in India). His research emphasizes translating evidence into policy, such as neonatal skincare guidelines adopted in multiple countries. He supervises students researching maternal health in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Myanmar, and South Sudan.
