I am a first-year PhD student exploring evidence-based mental health intervention for school adolescents in low and middle-income countries, particularly in Bangladesh. My PhD focuses on the feasibility of the modular approach to therapy for children with anxiety, depression, trauma or conduct problems (MATCH-ADTC) in Bangladesh, funded by the Prime Minister Fellowship (PMF) of Bangladesh.
Before coming to Cambridge University, I completed my Master’s and Bachelor’s successfully in Public Health and Informatics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. In my Masters, I documented the prevalence of common mental health problems and their associated risk factors in Bangladesh’s urban, semi-urban and rural adolescents using a mixed-method approach. As of today, I have been awarded different national and international research grants, such as the Bloomberg Initiative grant from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Besides, I have experience working as a Senior Research Officer, Researcher and Research Assistant at different reputed research organizations namely BSMMU (Bangladesh), icddr,b, UNESCO and the Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network. As a young scientist from Bangladesh, I participated in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physiology/Medicine in 2023 in Germany.
Contact information
Email: aa2455@cam.ac.uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/afifa-anjum-8a8a20185
Twitter: @AfifaAnjum17
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Afifa_Anjum4.
Selected publications
| 1. Haque, M. A., Anjum, A. et al. (2023). Prevalence of and factors associated with depression, anxiety and stress among adolescents in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic: A population-based study. F1000Research, 12, 730.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.132304
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| 2. Anjum, A., Hossain, S., Hasan, M.T. et al. Stress symptoms and associated factors among adolescents in Dhaka, Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry 22, 807 (2022). |
| 3. GBD 2019 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators (2022) Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Global Health.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00429-6
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| 4. Anjum A, Hossain S, Hasan MT, Uddin M. E, Sikder M.T (2022) Anxiety among urban, semi-urban and rural school adolescents in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Investigating prevalence and associated factors. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262716. |
| 5. Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, M. Tasdik Hasan et. al. (2021) Depressive Symptoms and Associated Factors among School Adolescents of Urban, Semi-Urban and Rural Areas in Bangladesh: A Scenario Prior to COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychiatry. |
| 6. Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, Md. Tajuddin Sikder et al. (2019) Investigating Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Depression among Urban and Semi-urban School Adolescents in Bangladesh: A Pilot Study. International Health, Oxford Journal. |
| 7. Sahadat Hossain, Afifa Anjum et al. (2019) Impacts of socio-cultural environment and lifestyle factors on the psychological health of university students in Bangladesh: A longitudinal study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 256 (2019) 393–403. |