Jannatul Ferdous Antu, M.Sc.

Jannatul Ferdous Antu is a Statistician. She started her career as a Research Officer at icddr,b, an international research organization based in Bangladesh in 2018. At present she is working as a Research Investigator at icddr,b and as a research fellow at the Chair for Public Health and Health Services at the Faculty of Medicine at LMU. She is enrolled as a PhD student at the Centre for International Health, LMU. Her areas of interest include gender issues, violence against women and children, child marriage, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is interested in violence against women and nutrition, analyzing longitudinal data, advanced statistical analysis and modeling.

Education

•  - 2016 University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, M.Sc 
     Field of Study: Statistics
•  - 2015 University of Dahka, Bangladesh, B.Sc
     Field of Study: Statistics
  
  

Employment

• Since September 2024: Research Fellow, Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Faculty of    Medicine, LMU
• Since January, 2024: Research Investigator Gender, Equity and Rights Research Group, icddr,b
• February, 2022 – December, 2023: Senior Research Officer Gender, Equity and Rights Research Group, icddr,b
• June, 2018 – January, 2022: Research Officer Gender, Equity and Rights Research Group, icddr,b

Publication

1. Naved, R. T., Antu, J. F., Pervin, K., Haider, M. N., Hanifi, S. M. A. (2024). Induced abortion after advent of fetal sex detection technology and child sex at birth. BMC Public Health.
2. Mamun, M. M. A., Mahmud, S., Antu, J. F., Talukder, A., Naved, R. T. (2024). A protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of Balika Bodhu: A combined empowerment and social norm based sexual and reproductive health and rights intervention for married adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh. PLOS ONE.
3. Naved, R. T., Antu, J. F., Parvin, K., & Ziaei, S. (2023). Multi-level analysis of the determinants of physical domestic physical violence against children using longitudinal data from MINIMat mother-child cohort in rural Bangladesh. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1185130.
4. Ziaei, S., Antu, J. F., Mamun, M. A., Parvin, K., & Naved, R. T. (2023). Factors Associated With Domestic Violence Against Women at Different Stages of Life: Findings From a 19-Year Longitudinal Dataset From the MINIMat Trial in Rural Bangladesh (2001–2020). Journal of interpersonal violence, 38(21-22), 11768-11789
5. Antu, J. F., Parvin, K., Sujan, H. M., Mamun, M. A., & Naved, R. T. (2022). Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Age at Marriage Among Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 840145.
6. Antu, J. F., Sharmin, S., & Mallick, T. S. (2020). Generalized Quasilikelihood Inference for Zero Inflated Longitudinal Count Data. Dhaka University Journal of Science, 68(1), 95-99.