MD KARIMUZZAMAN
Biostatistics PhD Candidate
MS and BSc in Statistics
Outcome Research ||
Longitudinal & repeated- measures modeling
(GEE, marginal models) ||
Real-world data (EHR, observational studies) ||
Latent Class Models || Zero-inflated & count models || Fusion Learning || Spatial health || Food Environment ||
Health equity & disparities || Survival Data Analysis
I am a PhD candidate at Drexel University under the supervision of Professor Brisa N. Sánchez. Before joining Drexel, I gained valuable experience working on and leading multiple research projects across various organizations. My current research focuses on developing fusion learning and quadratic inference function (QIF) approaches for moderate- to high-dimensional, zero-inflated, spatially adjacent repeated-measure health datasets.
Current Projects
NIH: "Effectiveness of population level interventions in schools and academic performance" (R01MD017687, PI: Sanchez)
NIH: "Characterizing health impacts of built environment features using complex data" (R01 HL131610, PI: Sanchez)
NIH: "Characterizing food environments near schools in California" (R01HL136718, PI: Sanchez )
NIH: "Population-level nutrition interventions and food environment effects on obesity" (R01HD111169, PI: Sanchez )
MESA: "Using latent transition analysis to characterize longitudinal mixtures of retail environment features and their associations with hemoglobin A1C"
MESA: "Evaluating differential exposure to food environment by data source in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis"
AllofUS: "Assessing school racial diversity in California: a longitudinal study"
AllofUS: "Social determinants of obesity among a national sample of Hispanic adults"
Selected Publications
Md Karimuzzaman, Sydney Miller, Emma V Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Brisa N Sánchez, Fast-food and convenience outlets near schools in California: a comparison of private and public schools, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 195, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 126–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf025
2. Md Karimuzzaman, Obesity in Bangladesh: Study food near schools. Science385,266-266(2024). DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp6537
3. Tasnim, Z., Karimuzzaman, M., Naher, N. et al. Developing a Trauma System Improvement Program (TSIP) in Bangladesh: findings from a pilot study. BMC Emerg Med (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-026-01490-2
4. Ahmed KT, Karimuzzaman M, Afroz S, et al. Trends and long-term variation explaining nutritional determinants of child linear growth: analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys 1996–2018. Public Health Nutrition. 2023;26(12):2758-2770. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980023002288
5. Hossain, A.; Karimuzzaman, M.**; Hossain, M.M.; Rahman, A. Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Headlines. Information 2021, 12, 414. https://doi.org/10.3390/info12100414
6. Abdulla, F.; Nain, Z.; Karimuzzaman, M.; Hossain, M.M.; Rahman, A. A Non-Linear Biostatistical Graphical Modeling of Preventive Actions and Healthcare Factors in Controlling COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4491. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094491
Under Review and In Preparation
Karimuzzaman M, Sanchez B, Sanchez-Vaznaugh E. Fusion learning approach for count data: examining income differences in the spatial distribution of food outlets. In preparation
Tara P. McAlexander, Karimuzzaman M., Reyhaneh A. Nejad Yazdi, Kari Moore, Jana A. Hirsch, Steven Melly, Jingjing Li, Brisa Sánchez; Using latent transition analysis to characterize longitudinal mixtures of retail environment features and their associations with hemoglobin A1C: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. In Preparation
McAlexander, Tara P. and Karimuzzaman, Md and Nejad Yazdi, Reyhaneh and Moore, Kari and Hirsch, Jana A. and Melly, Steven and Li, Jingjing and Auchincloss, Amy H. and Sanchez, Brisa N., Evaluating Differential Exposure to Food Environment by Data Source: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5525131 In revision at Soc Sci Humanities Open.
Miller S, Karimuzzaman M, Sanchez-Vaznaugh EV, Sanchez BN. Assessing school racial diversity in California: a longitudinal study. In revision at American Journal of Epidemiology
Miller S, Karimuzzaman M, Sanchez-Vaznaugh EV, Sanchez BN. Social determinants of obesity among a national sample of Hispanic adults. In revision at Obesity.
Chowdhury, R., Jahangir, K.B., Mohosin, A.B., Zoha, N.S., Bonny, F.A., Kaiser, A., Karimuzzaman, Md., Ferdousei, P., Nath, S.R., Quayyum, Z., Hasan, M.T., Primary school dropout rate among children in selected hard-to-reach areas of Bangladesh and the factors associated with it. In revision at Heliyon.
Teaching Experience
1. Instructor: Introduction to Biostatistics (BST 571), Summer 2026, Graduate-level course, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University
2. Instructor, Introduction to Biostatistics (Fall 2022), Undergraduate-Level Course, Department of Statistics, Govt. Titumir College under Dhaka University
3. Instructor, Introduction to Epidemiology (Fall 2022), Undergraduate-Level Course, Department of Statistics, Govt. Titumir College under Dhaka University
4. Guest Lecturer: Intermediate Biostatistics (Fall 2025), graduate level course, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University.
Survival Data Analysis (BST557/PBHL459), Fall 2024
Intermediate Biostatistics I (BST 560), Fall 2023
Introduction to Biostatistics (BST BST 571), Winter 2022
Teaching Fellow, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University
PBH: Intro to Biostatistics, Conducting Statistics lab, and recitation classes, & Grading
Mentoring a group of students for final projects
Statistics Mentor, Durbin Labs Limited, Dhaka, BD, see video demonstration here
Teaching intermediate level statistics course for an academic app
Creating content for websites and online
Biostatistics for Social Impact Lab
Team Lead & PI
Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD (PhD Advisor)
Dornsife Professor at Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA
Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, PhD
Professor at Health Education Department, Department of Public Health
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA
Tara P. McAlexander, PhD
Assistant Research Professor at Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA
Miller Sydney, PhD
Quantitative Research Analyst, National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®)
Former Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA
Kelsey Alexovitz, pHd
Research Associate 2, Yale School of Medicine
Former Researcher, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA
Awards
2023, Drexel Global Travel Award, Drexel University.
2023, International Travel Award, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University.
2018, Scholarship for academic excellency by Ministry of Education, Bangladesh 2015 – 2016
2015, Academic Merit Scholarship by Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
2015, Excellent Member Award of Debate Organization of JU
Lecture by Invitation
1. UHC Weekly Forum: “Fast-food and convenience outlets near schools in California: a comparison of private and public schools”, Seminar on Urban Health Collaborative (UHC), Drexel University.
2. Flash Talk: Give flash talk as a part of the Seminar series of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
3. Seminar Talk: Present "Text Mining in Public Health Research", Seminar on Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.
4. Statistic LEAD Club: Data Handling and Manipulation and Data Visualization with R
1.Reviewer for Journals
PLOS One
BMC public health
Social Network Analysis and Mining
2. Voluntary Activities (Academic Society)
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), International Biometric Society Spring Meeting, Baltimore
Session Chair: Non-parametric statistical methods
Poster Competition Judge
3. Voluntary Activities (Organization): Organized 25 Event
President and Founder, Statistics LEAD Club (2017 – 2018), Jahangirnagar University
Organized National Level Competition
Several workshops, seminars, competitions, and lead a bunch of statistics students.
IT Secretary & Executive member (2016 –2018), Jahangirnagar University Debate Organization (JUDO)
Organized National and University Level Competition
National level debater for the University
Joint Secretary (2015) of Lakshmipur Student Union (JU)
Helping Lakshmipur district students to achieve higher study goals.
Executive Member (2013), Learners Association
Organized lots of workshops, seminars, and motivational sessions to achieve their higher study goal among the school and college-going students of Lakshmipur (a marginalized community).
Coordinator of Independent Research Group
Team Lead
Azizur Rahman, PhD
Professor of Mathametics and Statistics,
School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Co-Lead
Md Moyazzem Hossain, PhD (Bachelor and MS Advisor)
Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Former Researcher- Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Members
Mehedi Hasan, MS
PhD Student of Epidemiology,
Georgia State University, USA
Sabrina Afroz, MS
PhD Student of Biostatistics,
Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health,
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Philadelphia, USA
Khandakar Tanvir Ahmed, MS
Principle Officer, BRAC Bank Limited, Bangladesh
Independent Researcher - Statistics and Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Faruk Abdullah, MS
Research Fellow of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research(ICDDRB), Bangladesh
Former Researcher- Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Md Arafat Hossen, MS
Independent Researcher - Statistics and Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Recommended as Instructor: "International Teaching Assistant Training" at DREXEL University.
Presentation at JSM: Attend and present my paper, "Spatial Distribution of Food Environment Near Public and Private School in California" at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada in August 2023.
