Associate Professor Jahar Bhowmik

Biography

Associate Professor Jahar Bhowmik received a PhD degree in Applied Statistics and Econometrics from Monash University, Australia in 2004. Before joining at Swinburne Jahar worked as a biostatistician at Menzies Research Institute at Tasmania University in Hobart and as a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University in Melbourne. His research interests are Applied Epidemiology, Public Health, Statistical Inference, Biostatistical Data Modelling, Econometrics, Time Series and Forecasting, and Experimental Design. Jahar teaches into the under-graduate and post-graduate programs in the field of Applied Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Design and Measurement, Research Design, and Forecasting at Swinburne University of Technology, also offering short statistics courses tailored to the needs of delegates and statistical consulting. He is the current course director for postgraduate applied statistics programs. Jahar supervises PhD and masters students in many areas including applied epidemiology, biostatistics, experimental design, public health and health related data modeling. He has published in prestigious journals including PLOS ONE, Autism Research, BMJ Open, International Journal of Public Health, Disability and Rehabilitation, Measurement, Materials and Journal of Public Health. So far he has co-authored on around 85 peer reviewed publications, and three book chapters. Jahar (with others from Swinburne) has been successful in bids as a chief investigator to secure over $800,000 research funding and a $985,750 NHMRC targeted project grant as an associate investigator.
Jahar is currently the topic editor of the special issue 'Analytics and Modelling Clinical Data Using Advanced Biostatistics Methods' linke with five high ranked MDPI journals and a Guest Editor of the high impact peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Ongoing research projects include:
1) Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 5.1 and 5.2 through their indicators.
2) Socio-demographic factors associated with intimate partner violence in the low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC).
3) Effect of health awareness on accessing skilled birth attendant services in the  low- and-middle-income countries (LMIC).
4. Trajectories and key social determinants of maternal health service access and utilisation, in low- and-middle-income countries (LMIC).
5) Evaluating a wellbeing clinic to support older adults with mild to moderate dementia living in residential aged care settings.
6) Pregnancy, Birth, Infant Feeding and Child Health Outcomes.