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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Provide analytic and research support for: a) Development and maintenance of health and economic modeling toolsb) Economic evaluations including analysis on the impact, costs, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and uncertainty analysis for investment cases or evaluations of nutrition interventions, policies, packages, or plans; c) Research and data analysis.

• Conducted analysis on the impact, costs, and cost-benefit for an investment case of large-scale food fortification in a developing country in Asia
• Modelled with analytical tools such as Lives Saved Tool (LiST) and Optima Nutrition to estimate the health impact of Vitamin A supplementation in developing countries in Asia and Africa
• Assisted in research and data analysis on areas related to nutrition and health economics including trends, implementation, and innovation
• Supported the Health Economics strategy in improving the knowledge translation of economic research

Burnaby, British Columbia

Teaching Assistant positions (TA-ships) were offered on a competitive basis to qualified graduate students. A full TA-ship included set hours per semester for responsibilities that included class time, course preparation, tutorial papers and/or other duties as assigned or required by the Department Chair or the Course Supervisor.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Developed, analyzed and recommended policy options that considered the unique characteristics of the B.C. co-operative credit union sector and the mandate of FICOM to protect depositors. Researched best practices from other jurisdictions. Contributed to developing briefing notes, reports, documents and correspondence.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Part of a team which worked to improve food security and health conditions in a post-conflict district of Bangladesh. Conducted formative and qualitative research, and prepared training materials on program activities. Assisted Monitoring & Evaluation reporting and maintained knowledge archive. Furnished programmatic documents for reporting to donor.

Bangladesh

The program support officer helped manage an USAID-funded program's information, organized external events, helped establish knowledge archive, supported formative research and reporting, and furnished different programmatic documents and periodic reports.

Bangladesh

Assigned to the Office of Food, Disaster & Humanitarian Assistance. Assisted in preparing program documentation such as memorandum, briefing materials, and correspondence for managing projects. Participated in the field trips with other team members to monitor project, activities, collect project specific information, and prepare draft trip reports.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Relevant modules: Financial Economics I, Advanced Topics in Finance, Applied Econometrics, Computational Methods in Economics.

Master Of Science - Ms, Economics

Relevant modules: Time Series Model, Panel and Limited Dependent Variable, International Financial Economics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics And Finance

Activities and Societies: Football Team, Basketball Team, Young Economists' ForumMajored in Economics and Finance. Received Merit Based.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Basketball team, Football team, Volleyball teamRecipient of the Daily Star Award for Outstanding Results.