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Zakir Husain

  • Professor
  • Presidency University

Roles

Researchers

Zakir Husain is a Professor at Presidency University since 2018. His teaching career started in 1994, with his appointment to West Bengal Education Service. Thereafter, he has served in Rabindra Bharati University, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Institute of Economic Growth New Delhi, and Indian Institute for Technology Kharagpur. In between, Zakir was a Senior Consultant in the Prime Minister’s High Level Committee chaired by the late Mr. Justice Rajinder Sachar (2005-2006), and member of the West Bengal State Planning Board (2007-2011). In 2009, he was awarded a NUFFIC scholarship by the Netherlands government to visit Wageningen University to attend a workshop on Sustainable development. He also visited Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for six months in 2012-13 as a Visiting Scientist.

Projects

Herself and her children: How worse off are they? Impact of COVID-19 in rural Bihar

Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta, Saswata Ghosh, Kaushik Chaudhuri 28 Feb 2021
Project

Can peer and neighbourhood effects improve maternal health outcomes in rural Bihar: Assessing the role of formal and informal networks

Mousumi Dutta, Zakir Husain 30 Dec 2020
Project

All contributions

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Saas, bahu, and ASHA: Information diffusion and behavioural change in rural Bihar

Mousumi Dutta, Saswata Ghosh, Zakir Husain
Policy brief
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Ensuring food security during pandemics: Lessons from the COVID-19 lockdown in Bihar

Zakir Husain, Saswata Ghosh, Mousumi Dutta
Policy brief
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Herself and her children: How worse off are they? Impact of COVID-19 in rural Bihar

Zakir Husain, Saswata Ghosh, Mousumi Dutta
Project report