Department: Health Sciences 

Areas of expertise:

• Non-communicable diseases
• Maternal and child health
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Health systems in developing countries 

Zaman teaches

• Statistical methods
• Research methods
• Infectious diseases 

Dr. Zaman has over 10 years of research experience in implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluating health projects and research studies on infectious and chronic diseases. His research focuses on the use of community health workers, strengthening health systems and promotion of m-health technology in prevention and diagnosis of chronic disease. He has worked with multidisciplinary research teams across both developing and developed countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Thailand and Germany. 

Given his scientific contributions, Dr. Zaman has authored, co-authored or edited over 100 peer-reviewed papers, with more than 50,000 career citations, and has presented 20+ abstracts at international conferences. Currently, he is working with the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services (IIHHS) at JMU in collaboration with Virginia Department of Health (VDH) to evaluate the impact of chronic disease projects in Virginia. 

A list of articles that Zaman has contributed to can be found on Google Scholar.

Zaman earned a bachelor's degree in medicine at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, a master’s degree in international health at Charité University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany, and a doctorate in public health at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu.