Dr. Md. Israt Rayhan

Assistant Professor
Room no. 406

ISRT, University of Dhaka
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Telephone: +880 1924752885
Email:

isratatisrt [dot] ac [dot] bd

 

Education

 

Research Interests
  • Poverty, Risk, Vulnerability

 

Publications

Book

  • Md. Israt Rayhan, 2008. Assessing Household Vulnerability and Coping Strategies to Floods: A Comparative Study of Flooded and Non-flooded Areas in Bangladesh, 2005. Cuvilliar Verlag, Goettingen.

Articles

  • Md. Ershadul Islam, Ulrike Grote and Md. Israt Rayhan. 2012. Income vulnerability of rural households in Bangladesh: a comparison between Bayesian and classical methods. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. Taylor & Francis.(accepted)
  • Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan.2011. Spatio-temporal modeling of infectious disease dynamics. Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis.(published online)
  • Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan.2011. Modeling of infectious diseases for providing signal of epidemics: measles case study in Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 29(6): 567-573.
  • Mili Roy and Md. Israt Rayhan.2011.Trade Flows of Bangladesh: A Gravity Model Approach. Economics Bulletin, 31(1): 950-959.
  • Mili Roy and Md. Israt Rayhan.2011.Import Flows of Bangladesh: Gravity Model Approach under Panel Data Methodology. The Dhaka University Journal of Science. (accepted)
  • Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan.2011. Does globalization always increase inequality? An econometric analysis in Bangladesh perspective. Journal of Globalization Studies, 2(2). (published online)
  • Fatema Tuz Jhohura and Md. Israt Rayhan. 2011. An Assessment of Renewable Energy in Bangladesh through ARIMA, Holt’s, ARCH-GARCH Models. The Dhaka University Journal of Science. (accepted)
  • Md. Israt Rayhan.2010. Assessing Poverty, Risk and Vulnerability: A Study on Flooded Households in Rural Bangladesh. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 3(1): 18-24, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Md. Israt Rayhan and Ulrike Grote.2010. Crop Diversification to Mitigate Flood Vulnerability in Bangladesh: An Economic Approach. Economics Bulletin, 30 (1): 597-604.
  • Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan.2010. Socio-economic Inequality in Under-Five Child Mortality: A Statistical Approach to Determine Development Edge in Bangladesh. The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 58(2): 201-204.
  • Md. Israt Rayhan and Ulrike Grote. 2007. Coping with Floods: Does rural-urban migration play any role for survival in rural Bangladesh? Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, 1(2):82-98.
  • Md. Israt Rayhan, M. Sekander Hayat Khan and Md. Shahidullah. 2007. Impacts of Bio-social Factors on Morbidity among Children Aged Under-5 in Bangladesh. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 22(1):65-75.
  • Md. Israt Rayhan and M. Sekander Hayat Khan. 2006. Factors Causing Malnutrition among under Five Children in Bangladesh. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 5 (6): 558-562.

 

Teaching Courses

  • Advanced Multivariate Techniques (Graduate level, ISRT) [2008,2011-12]
  • Econometric Methods (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2008-12]
  • Advanced Survival Analysis (Graduate level, ISRT) [2008-09]
  • Sampling Techniques (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2008-10]
  • Operations Research (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2003-04]
  • Mathematical Economics (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2003-04]
  • Principles of Economics (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2003-04]
  • Statistical Inference (Undergraduate level, ISRT) [2003-04]
  • Research Methodology (Graduate level, BRAC University) [2009]

Theses

  • Assessing Household Vulnerability and Coping Stategies to Floods: A Comparative study of Flooded and Non-flooded areas in Bangladesh, 2005. (2008). PhD Thesis, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, University of Hannover, Germany.
  • Factors Affecting Malnutrition, Morbidity and Mortality among Under Five Children of Bangladesh (1998-99), M.Sc. Thesis, ISRT, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Membership

  • Life member, Bangladesh Statistical Association (BSA)
  • Alumni of Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
  • Alumni of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Alumni of Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade (IUW), Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Hannover, Germany
  • Alumni of Old Cadets Association of Sylhet (OCAS)