Haider, Muhiuddin

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Haider, Muhiuddin

PERSONAL:

Native of Bangladesh. Education: University of Dhaka, B.A. (with honors), 1968, M.A. (sociology), 1969; Michigan State University, M.A. (communications), 1974; University of Michigan, M.S., 1976, Ph.D., 1980.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Washington, DC. Office—Department of Global Health, George Washington University, 2175 K St. N.W., Ste. 810, Washington, DC 20037; fax: 202-416-0400. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh, began as lecturer, became assistant professor, 1970-73; School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, faculty member of international management program and director of learning center, 1980-84; Pathfinder Fund, Watertown, MA, associate for management information systems and training, 1985-87; Africare, Inc., Washington, DC, country representative in Nigeria, 1987-88; Center for Development and Population Activities, Washington, DC, director of health education division, 1988-92; Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC, director of training for Contraceptives for Social Marketing Project, 1992-95; Futures Group International, Washington, DC, senior associate and training director for Pakistan Private Sector Population Program, 1996-98; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, country representative for Nepal, 1999-2000; George Washington University, Washington, DC, associate professor of global health and international affairs, 2000—. Lecturer at University of Connecticut, Boston University, and Lesley College, between 1981 and 1984; Strayer University, Germantown Campus, sociology teacher, 2000-02; adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, 2004—, and BRAC University in Bangladesh, 2005—; conference presenter in the United States and abroad. Member of Global Health Council and Coalition on Youth Reproductive Health; International Committee on the Management of Population Programmes, Kuala Lumpur, assistant executive director, 1984-85; Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, Kuala Lumpur, trainer, 1984-85; trainer for Malaysian Institute of Management and Malaysian Agricultural Research Institute for Development, Kuala Lumpur, 1985; consultant to various organization and institutions, including Chemonics International United Nations Fund for Population, and U.S. State Department Bureau of Cultural and Educational Activities.

MEMBER:

American Public Health Association, Population Association of America, Pi Lambda Theta.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant from Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, 1976; fellow of UNESCO, United Nations Population Fund, and Bentley Foundation, 1978, and Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, 1978-82; professional citation, Population Action Council, 1982; professional ethics award, AKIDA Management Associates of Pakistan, 1998; grants from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2002-03, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Consumer Health Foundation, 2003-05, National Institutes of Health, 2004-06, and Emergent BioSolutions, 2003—.

WRITINGS:

Village Level Integrated Population Education: A Case Study of Bangladesh, American University Press (Washington, DC), 1982.

(With A. Subramanian) Analysis of Experience: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Control, and Treatment Programming, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 2004.

(Editor and contributor) Global Public Health Communication: Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies, Jones & Bartlett (Boston, MA), 2005.

Author of introduction to Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor, by Stephen Sposato and William A. Smith, University Press of America, 2004. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Health Communication.