CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Name : Mohammed A. Mabud (Former United Nations Chief Technical Advisor on population Policy and Division Chief, Bangladesh Planning Commission.) Present Address : B-3, 13, Eskaton Garden Dhaka, Bangladesh. Contact numbers : 880-2-8311534(R) E-mail address: mabud@accesstel.net. Present Work : Visiting Scholar, Independent University, Bangladesh, Baridhara, Dhaka. Education : Degree University Year Field of Specialization Ph. D. Boston University, U. S. A. 1983 Population Sociology Economic Development and under development, Demography, Advanced Social Statistics, Research Methods, Social Theories, Social Systems, Social Stratification & Mobility, Social ethics, Gender Issues etc. M. Sc. Harvard University, U. S. A. 1977-78 Population Science (Demography, Bio- Stat., Computer Science, Public Policies, Theories, of Economic Development, Population Ethics, Program Evaluation, International Health, FP, Program Management etc.). M.P.H. The University of California, Berkeley U.S.A. 1970-71 Health Education, Bio-Stat., FP. Program Management, Epidemiology International Health, Community Development, Anthropology, Behavioral Science, Program Evaluation. M. A. The Punjab University, Lahore. 1963 Social work (Community Development)
2. TEACHING SUBJECTS i. Population Dynamics; ii. Population and Health Sociology; iii. Advanced Statistics; iv. Women and Development; v. Development and underdevelopment; vi. Research methods including application of multivariate statistics to social science data and family planning data analysis; vii. Sociological Theories and comparative social systems; viii. Community involvement in Health and population; ix. Health Management and Health-HRD for sustainable development. x. Population and development; xi. Public policies in Health, Population and other Sectors of Economy; and xii. Health planning and Economics. 3. TEACHING EXPERIENCES (i) Taught at Various national level institutes in Bangladesh on the subjects like Statistics, population Policy, Demographic Techniques and Research methods, and Gender and development. (ii) Taught evaluation research method course to graduate students at the Institute of Statistical Research & Training (ISRT in 1981-82 and at the Institute of Social Welfare and Research (ISWR), Dhaka University, Dhaka in 1985-86. (iii) At present, I am teaching at 1UB in Population, Health and environment. Recently I had offered an advanced Research Methodology Course at IUB. I have been regularly conducting Population-Development courses for the senior officers of the Government. 4 SPECIALIZATION Demography, Advanced Social Statistics, Evaluation Research methods, Population Sociology, Health Sociology, and Public Policy, Gender and Development, Population-Development Integration, Population and Environment and Health-Population Economics and Poverty Alleviation.
5. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES : Techniques to estimate Fertility and Mortality: Life Table Analysis ; Population Projection; Manpower and School Population Projection : Various Demographic Rates and Ratios ; Census and Survey Data, Adjustment Techniques ; Cost-Benefit Analyses ; and Efficiency Index of Family Planning Program. Multivariate Analytical Techniques, such as Multiple Cross- Classification, Multiple Regression, Analysis of Variance and Covariance; Multiple Classification Factors, and Path Analysis. Evaluation Techniques: Model building and developing various Research designs, hypothesis testing, and formulation of research problems, data analysis, and report writing. 6. SCHOLARSHIP Inter Wing Scholarship: 1961-63 USAID Fellowship: 1970-71 USAID Fellowship: 1977-78 The population Council Fellowship: 1980-81 7. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES: i) District Executive Officer of Population Program in erstwhile Mymensingh district having 7.5 million population and supervised nearly 86 officers, and 3600 field staff of various levels. ii) Assistant Chief, Population and health Section, Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. iii) Project Director, External Population Programs Evaluation Unit, Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. vi) Deputy Chief, Population Section, Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. v) Joint Chief and Director, Population Development & Evaluation Unit (PDEU), Bangladesh Planning 1965-70 1972-76 1976-77 1979-80 1981-86 1986 March to August 5,
vi) vii) Commission, Dhaka. 1988. (As Founder Director of the PDEU. I supervised the works of 20 professionals and 50 Para professionals engaged in evaluative research on Development Programmes including population, women s skill training and income generation. I have conducted many researches/studies). Director, Population Development & Evaluation Unit August 1988 (PDEU), Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. to June 1991 Services under the United Nations as Chief Technical July 1991 to Adviser. January 1995 Worked as UN Population Division s Chief Technical Advisor on Population Planning for the Ministry of Planning, Government of Lesotho. Duties included both population policy formulation and integrating population in development plans and policies. Specific activities were: a) Prepared Five - Year Population Plan (1991-96) as a part of the Fifth Fiveyear Development plan of Lesotho. b) Prepared long term Population Policy and make series of Population Projections on various assumptions. c) Prepared and published 1991 and 1994 Lesotho Population Data Sheet. d) Helped Ministries in integrating population variables in their respective sector plans. e) Conducted Population Development Workshops for senior officials of the Government and other agencies. f) Guided and supervised eight population Policy and Population and Development related researches. g) Imprated in-house staff-training on demography, statistics and research methods, and h) Arranged both long and short term training program for the officers of the Dept. at the overseas Universities and Strengthening the Dept. with data processing equipment and taught them how to use population related software.
(viii) Joint Chief, Population Planning Wing (February 1995 to Nov. 26, 1998) Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. (i) Apart from resource allocation Project processing for approval, two significant works done during this period are; (ii) Prepared participatory perspective plan for population sector. (iii) Prepared population projection for 25 years for the preparation of perspective plan by the Planning Commission and uses of the data by rest of the Government. (iv) Prepared the 5 th Five-year plan on Population and Family Welfare Sector (1977-2002), Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka 1997. As a development planner, I have written population plan in four successive FY plans linking population with other development sectors such as health, education, women s development, mass media, NGOs etc. Strategic resource planning, budget preparation for various programmes, projects and especially aid negotiation with donors keeping in view the development thrust and sectoral priority are key aspects of my responsibilities. An all of my works, I have involved high officials, key actors in both public and NGOs and thus, I have gained considerable experience in working through various committees. I have worked as chairperson, member-secretary and member of many sectroal and multi-sectoral and NGO organizations on the basis of the professional standing. Last Assignment: Division Chief, Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka. 8. PUBLICATIONS (AS PRINCIPAL AUTHOR) : 1. Demographic Implications of Bangladesh Population Growth, 1983 (an occasional Publication of Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka). 2. Ethical Implications of Bangladesh Population Policy; paper presented in the national seminar of the Bangladesh Population Policy; paper
presented in the national seminar of the Bangladesh Population Association 1981. 3. Data Analysis in Basic Research Methods, National Institute of Population Research & Training (NIPORT), Ministry of Health * Population Control, Dhaka 1984. 4. Women s Program Impact on Village Women s contraceptive and Reproductive Behaviour in Rural Bangladesh; in Rural Demography; Vol. IX: Nos. 1 & 2, 1984, Bangladesh. 5. Multivariate Areal Analysis of the Efficiency of Family Planning Program and its Impact on Fertility in Bangladesh. Asian Population Studies No. 67, ESCAP, Bangkok, UN 1986. 6. Efficiency and Impact of Family Planning Program in Bangladesh, Chapter xvi; in Asian Population Studies series no. 84; Population policies and programmes; United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok, 1987. 7. Integration of Population and Development: an analytical framework of Population of Population Planning and Research; Pop/LAFP/8; ESCAP, Bangkok, UN, February 1987. 8. Level and Trend in Fertility in Bangladesh; Paper Presented at a National seminar on recent trend in Fertility and mortality in Bangladesh; June 11-13, 1987; Planning Commission, Dhaka. 9. Women s Status at the Household level in Rural Bangladesh; Vol. 2, Journal of Social Development, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, Dhaka University, 1985. 10. Impact of Rapid Population Growth on Women s Status: A Keynote paper presented at the biannual conference of the Bangladesh Sociological Association held on August 7-9, 1998, Dhaka. This paper is also partly appeared at the ESCAP s Population division s Publication: Asian population Studies Services No. 93; Vol 2, 1989, Bangkok. 11. Role of Status of Women: Bangladesh s Scenario, A paper presented in Workshop of Asian Studies held in New York in 1990 and was published as a part of the South Asian Study report on Bangladesh, UNFPA, 1990.
12. Fertility Impact of Rural Development Projects: Bangladesh s Experience, a report produced for ILO, Geneva, 1987. 13. Bangladesh population Data Sheet since 1978 thru 1990 was prepared and published, on behalf of the Ministry of Planning, Govt. of Bangladesh Prepared and published similar population Data Sheet in 1991-94 for the Govt. of Lesotho. Other countries are now following it as a model. 14. Bangladesh demographic scenario up to 2010 AD, Population Development and Evaluation Unit. Bangladesh Planning Commission, Dhaka 1990. 15. Effectiveness of Radio Population Related Programme; University Research Corporation, Dhaka 1990. 16. Identification of factors Influencing Family Planning Program Performance in High and Low performance Upazilla of Bangladesh; 1 bid, 1991. 17. Population Projection and Development Model: Some Conceptual clarifications; In National Population-Development Workshop report; Ministry of Planning, Government of Lesotho, 1991. 18. Lesotho s Demographic Scenario Beyond 2000 A. D. Ministry of Planning, Government of the People s Republic of Bangladesh, Lesotho, 1995. 19. Institutional Arrangement and procedure for Population and Fisheries Policy Planning in Bangladesh; Paper Resented at the UNFPA-FAO workshop in Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Commilla, 1996. 20. Socio Economic Differential of Reproductive Health in Bangladesh, BSS/UNFPA, Dhaka, 1997. 21. Decentralization in Health and Population Sector and its Implications for Human Resources Development, Policy Research Unit, MOHFW, 2001. 9. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES /REPORTS i. Evaluation Report on the Performance of Family Planning Field Assistants, 1977.
ii. Member-Secretary; National Evaluation Committee of Bangladesh Population Programs, 1975-80; 1980 (I was responsible for Preparing this report). iii. Principal Investigator: A study on IUD Use-effectiveness, 1982; Published by the Ford Foundation/PIACT, Dhaka. iv. Principal Investigator: Multivariate Area Analysis of Impact and Efficiency of Family Planning Program in Bangladesh, 1984. v. Principal Investigator of the study on the Impact of Swanirvar Program Bangladesh Population Association, 1984. vi. Principal Investigator of the study on the Impact of Family Planning Program, Dhaka 1985. vii. Principal Investigator of the National Fertility and Family Planning Survey, 1968. viii. Principal Investigator of the study on the determinants of high low performance, Upazilla of Family Planning Programs; PDEU, Planning Commission, Bangladesh, 1990. ix. Principal Investigator of the study on Impact of Women s Vocational Training Program on their Income and Reproductive Behaviour. Population Development and Evaluation Unit, Ministry of Planning Govt. of Bangladesh 1991. x. National Director of an UNFPA assisted large survey entitled National Family Planning Impact Study (in Bangladesh; Panning Commission, 1991, Involving over 300,000 Households). xi. Helped design the lesotho demographic and health survey questionnaires, 1991. xii. Principal Investigator of the Study on Assessing Reproductive Heath Status of Grameen Bank Female Borrowers, Dhaka 1997. 10. CONSULTANCY SERVICES i. Consultant to the ILO in July 1985 for a regional training workshop in Delhi.
ii. CIDA-consultant at the MOH&FW for three Women s program for one month in 1987. iii. DFID consultant to the MOH&FW for inter and multi-sectoral Health, Population and Nutrition Issues 1999. iv. Consultant to the Center for Policy Dialogue Dhaka on Health and Population Policy Analysis 2000. v. Consultant to the DFID/HLSP and MOHFW on Decentralization and local level plan in Upazilla 2000. vi. Vocational Specialist/Consultant for an UNDP assisted Project of the Ministry of Social Welfare for the Socially Disadvantaged women (SDW), from August 2000 January 2001. vii. HRD-Consultant at the Policy Research Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for 2 years from February 2001 to January 2003. In this capacity, (a) conducted two capacity development training on research method; (b) facilitated three national workshops and presented two technical papers in two workshops (c) prepared HRD- Data sheet, 2001; (d) wrote RFP for 5 HRD studies of which two studies are currently under implementation; (e) drafted national population policy; (f) helped established national RHD Policy Committee and Technical Committee; (g) facilitated seven task force in connection with HRD-policy in health and population sector ; (h) prepared stakeholders participation strategy document ; (i) currently engaged in preparing HRD projections on few selected workforce and HRD-Data Sheet, 2002 as well as facilitating we works above mentioned task force ; and (j) other technical works as and when needed.