Dr. Md Monir Hossain

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Core
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2008

Mailing Address

6410 Fannin Street, Suite 1100.25
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
Houston, Texas 77030
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (713) 500-7964
Fax: (713) 500-0766
monir.hossain@uth.tmc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Statistics, 1999.
M.Sc., University of Dhaka, Statistics, 1994.
B.Sc., University of Dhaka, Statistics, 1991.

Expertise and Research Interests

My main expertise includes the development of statistical methods in the following area:

Spatial-temporal disease cluster modeling
Mixture models
Inter-rater reliability
Survival function for informative drop-out
Multi-level modeling
Health services research

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Statistics.

Memberships

American Statistical Association
International Statistical Institute

Honors and Awards

2009, Cross Appointment, University of Texas Health Science Center
2002-2005, Adjunct Fellow, University of Canterbury
2002-2006, Outstanding Service award as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina
1996-1999, Monbukagakusho Scholarship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
1991-1994, University of Dhaka Merit Scholarship, University of Dhaka
1988-1991, Comilla Board Scholarship, Comilla Board, Bangladesh

Previous Positions

2006-2008, Research Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina at Columbia, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2006, Research Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2003-2006, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of South Carolina at Columbia, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2001-2003, Research Fellow (Statistician), University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and General Practice
1995-2001, Assistant Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Department of Statistics
1994-1995, Staff statistician, BRAC, Research and Evaluation Division (RED)

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Evaluation and development of cancer cluster diagnostics, $100,000, 2006 to 2008.

Publications

  • Hossain, MM, Laditka, JN (2009) Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling, International Journal of Health Geographics, In Press
  • Hossain, MM, Lawson, AB (2008) Approximate Methods in Bayesian Point Process Spatial Models, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, In Press
  • Hossain, MM, Lawson, AB (2008) Space-time Bayesian small area disease risk models: Development and evaluation with a focus on cluster detection, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, In Press
  • Hossain, MM, Lawson, AB (2006) Cluster detection diagnostics for small area health data: with reference to evaluation of local likelihood models, Statistics in Medicine, 25, 771-786
  • Hossain, MM, Lawson, AB (2005) Local likelihood disease clustering: Development and Evaluation, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 12, 259-273
  • Hossain, MM, Graham, P, Gower, S (2004) Hierarchical generalised linear models with time-dependent clustering: Assessing the effect of health sector reform on patient outcomes in New Zealand, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 4, 169-186
  • Murthy, MN, Chacko, R, Penny, R, Hossain, MM (2003) Multivariate nearest neighbourhood method of imputation, Statistics in Transition, 6 (1), 55-66
  • Hossain, MM, Hossain, SS (2000) Fitting of daily rainfall occurrence as an alternating renewal process, Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, 24 (2), 187-195
  • Hossain, MM, Shimizu, K (1999) Estimation of area rain-rate first product moment and covariance by the threshold method, Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 29 (2), 109-123
  • Hossain, MM, Hossain, SS (1996) Estimating the order of Markov chain and detecting the nonstationarity of daily rainfall data, Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research, 14 (2), 169-176
  • Hossain, MM, Hossain, SS (1996) Fitting of Markov chain probability model to daily rainfall occurrence at Sunamganj, Dhaka University Journal of Science, 44 (2), 303-312
  • Hossain, MM, Laditka, J, Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling, Submitted
  • Foppa, I, Hossain, MM, Revised estimates of influenza-associated excess mortality, United States, 1995 through 2005, Submitted

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