Zakir Hossin

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

My broad scientific interests include fetal/developmental origins of disease and social determinants of heath, with a particular focus on intergenerational transmission of disease risks. The overaching goal is to enhance knowledge about how parental socioeconomic and health disadvantages before childbirth influence health and developmental outcomes in children during childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and across the life course. My postdoctoral project aims to investigate the role of maternal chronic diseases in the fetal origins of long-term offspring health outcomes. I have recently been awarded a Forte grant to support a Sweden-Canada research collaboration focused on understanding how the children born to mothers with cadiovascuar disease are doing developmentally. The project utilizes nationwide register-based data from Sweden and province-wide register and survey data from British Columbia, Canada.

 

Supervisor

Anne Gadermann

Research Classification

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology)

Research Interests

Maternal and child health
Social and perinatal epidemiology
Life course epidemiology

Research Methodology

Nationwide administrative/register databases from Sweden and provicewide administrative and survey data from British Columbia, Canada.
Methods of causal inference (e.g., negative control and sibling study designs)
Counterfactual mediaion analysis
Survival analysis of time-to-event data
Latent class analysis

Research Options

I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
I am interested in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
 
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