Associate ProfessorZakia Hossain

BA Honours Sociology (DU, Bangladesh) First Class/ MA SOCIOLOGY (DU, Bangladesh) MA Demography (ANU, Australia)/ PhD Sociology (UQ, Australia)

Zakia Hossain is a Health Sociologist and a Demographer. She is a recipient of AusAID and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. Her major research and teaching is in the areas of Health Sociology, Health and globalisation, International Health and Chronic diseases, research methods and statistics.

The PhD thesis' she has supervised examines, Chronic diseses, such as Breast cancer awareness and breast screening, Cervical cancer and screening, Cancer survivors and quality of life, Diabetes management, Stigma and HIV/AIDS; Media, HIV/AIDS education and young people; Acculturation and health and wellbeing, . She has presented her research work in Global Health Conference, Washington DC, World Congress of Gerontology, World Congress of Sociology, Asia Pacific Sociological Association and The Australian Sociological Aassociation.