Professor Khorshed Alam
| Name | Khorshed Alam |
|---|---|
| Position | Professor (Economics) |
| Section | School of Commerce |
| Office | T329 |
| Location | Toowoomba Campus |
| Phone | +61 7 4631 1291 |
| Extension | 1291 |
| Qualifications | BSc(Hons) Jahangirnagar , MSc Jahangirnagar , MA ISS , PhD Murdoch |
Fields of Research (FoR)
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Applied Economics
( 140200)
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Agricultural Economics
( 140201)
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Economic Development and Growth
( 140202)
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Environment and Resource Economics
( 140205)
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Health Economics
( 140208)
Research interests
Health economics and policy
Applied economics and policy analysis
Agricultural, environmental and resource economics
Digital economic strategies
Regional economic development
Professor Alam has supervised twelve PhD students to successful completion, as well as post-doctoral researchers. He is currently supervising a diverse group of ten PhD students.
Applications from potential PhD students are particularly welcome in his areas of interest.
A fully-funded, highly prestigious 3-year PhD scholarship is available to undertake research on dementia. Details are at USQ scholarship web page. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact.
Professional memberships
Economic Society of Australia; Australian Health Economics Society; Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International.
Professor Alam is currently a co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies. He is also an executive committee member of the Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International.
He is a member of the leadership team of USQ’s Centre for Health Research and leading health economic and policy research.
Currently teaching courses/programs
Courses Currently Teaching:
ECO3002 Economic Policy Analysis
ECO3030 Sustainable Economies
Courses previously taught:
ECO1000 Economics
ECO3001 Applied Econometrics
ECO8002 Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth
ECO8060 Business in the International Economy
MGT8402 Research Methodology 2 (Advanced Regression Analysis)
Current postgraduate students:
Afshar Ali; PhD; Information economics and health outcomes (Principal Supervisor)
Rashidul A. Mahumud; PhD; Burden of cancer and geographical distribution (Principal supervisor)
Ashraf Memon; PhD; Evidence-based approach in health outcomes (Associate supervisor)
Rubayyat Hashmi; PhD; Economics of mental health (Principal supervisor)
Syed Afroz Keramat; PhD; Obesity and labour market outcomes (Principal supervisor)
Md Hasan; PhD; Autism spectrum disorder (Associate supervisor)
Asror Nogmonov; PhD; Peer-to-peer lending (Principal Supervisor)
Elijah Aleer; MBSR; Substance use disorder and mental health (Principal Supervisor)
Emmanuel Ogwu; PhD: Cost-effectiveness of home care funding (Associate Supervisor)
Recently completed Higher Degree by Research graduates:
2019 - Rezwanul Rana, PhD; Health care-seeking behaviour and private health insurance (Principal Supervisor)
2018 - Shakoor Ahmed, MBSR: Energy economics (Principal Supervisor)
2017 - Michael Erdiaw-Kwasie, PhD: Resource economics (Principal supervisor)
2017 - Marina Costa Barbosa, PhD: Water resource management (Principal supervisor)
2017 - Belas A Khan, PhD: Biocomposite food packaging (Associate Supervisor)
2017 - Sanjib Tiwari, PhD: Broadband ecosystem (Associate supervisor)
2016 - Gazi A. Uddin, PhD: Population economics (Principal Supervisor)
2016 – GM Monirul Alam, PhD: Climate change and food security (Principal Supervisor)
2016 - Mohammad Salahuddin, PhD: Energy and information economics (Principal Supervisor)
2013 - Sophia Imran, PhD: Sustainable development (Principal Supervisor)
2012 - Anjan Dev Roy, PhD: Forest economics (Principal Supervisor)
2012 - Md Abdur Rashid Sarker, PhD: Climate change and agriculture (Principal Supervisor)
2012 - Md Shahiduzzaman, PhD: Energy economics (Principal Supervisor)
Research most recent
* Mahumud R., Alamgir K., Hossain T., Baruwa E., Sultana M., Gow J., Alam K., Ahmed S. and Khan J. (2019), ‘Women’s preferences for maternal healthcare services in Bangladesh: Evidence from discrete choice experiment’, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(2), 132.
* Rana R.H., Alam K. and Gow J. (2019), ‘The impact of immigration on public and out-of-pocket health expenditure in OECD countries’, Journal of International Migration and Integration, DOI: 10.1007/s12134-019-00667-y.
* Tiwari, S., Lane, M. & Alam, K. (2019), ‘Do social networking sites build and maintain social capital online in rural communities?’, Journal of Rural Studies, 66: 1-10.
* Uddin G., Alam K. and Gow J. (2019), ‘Ecological and economic growth interdependency in the Asian economies: An empirical analysis’, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26(13): 13159–13172.
* Alam, K., Adeyinka, A. & Wiesner, R. (2019), ’Smaller businesses and e-innovation: A winning combination in Australia’, Journal of Business Strategy, DOI: 10.1108/JBS-11-2018-0186.
* Ahmed, S., Alam, K., Rashid, A. and Gow, J. (2019), ‘Militarisation, energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in Myanmar’, Defence and Peace Economics, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1560566
* Sarker, A.R., Sultana, M., Ali, N., Akram, R., Alam, K., Khan, J.A.M. and Morton, A. (2019), ‘Cost of caregivers for treating hospitalized diarrheal patients in Bangladesh’, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4(1): 1-14.
* Ahmed, S., Alam, K., Rashid, A., Gow, J., Sohag, K. & Akter, M. (2019), ‘Renewable and non-renewable energy use and its relationship with economic growth in Myanmar’, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26: 22812–22825.
* Hashmi, R. & Alam, K. (2019), ‘Dynamic relationship among environmental regulation, innovation, CO2 emissions, population, and economic growth in OECD countries: A panel investigation’, Journal of Cleaner Production, 231: 1100-1109.
* Rana, R.H., Alam, K., Gow, J. & Ralph, N. (2019), ‘Predictors of healthcare use in Australian cancer patients’, Cancer Management and Research, 11: 6941–6957.
* Mahumud, R.A., Alam, K., Renzaho, A., Sarker, A.R., Sultana, M., Sheikh, N., Rawal, L.B. & Gow, J. (2019), ‘Changes in inequality of childhood morbidity in Bangladesh 1993-2014: A decomposition analysis’, PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218515
* Rana, R.H., Alam, K. & Gow, J. (2019), ‘Health expenditure and gross domestic product: A causality analysis by income level’, International Journal of Health Economics and Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-019-09270-1.
* Mahumud, R.A., Ali, N., Sheikh, N., Akram, R., Alam, K., Gow, J., Sarker, A.R. & Sultana, M. (2019). Measuring perinatal and postpartum quality-of-life of women and associated factors in semi-urban Bangladesh, Quality of Life Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-019-02247-0.
Research most notable
Professor Alam has published over 100 articles in highly impactful journals in his fields of research (70 in top-quartile SJR journals), prepared many industry and research reports, and refereed conference proceedings. His research has been funded by local, state and federal governments in Australia and by not-for-profit organisations. His current Google Scholar H-index is 28 with over 2,300 citations, and similarly his Scopus H-index is 20 with over 1,100 citations.
Professor Alam is the recipient of the inaugural Ronel Erwee Memorial Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision in 2017. He is also the winner of eight Publication Excellence Awards at USQ. He is the winner of the 2019 Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts Excellence Awards for Research.
A full list of his publications is available in USQ's e-prints repository: https://eprints.usq.edu.au/view/uniqueauthor/5238.html
Publications in ePrints
Mahumud, Rashidul Alam and Gow, Jeff and Alam, Khorshed and Keramat, Syed Afroz and Hossain, Md Golam and Sultana, Marufa and Sarker, Abdur Razzaque and Islam, Sheikh M. Shariful (2020) Cost-effectiveness of the introduction of two-dose bi valent (Cervarix) and quadrivalent (Gardasil) HPV vaccination for adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Vaccine, 38 (2). pp. 165-172. ISSN 0264-410X
Hashmi, Rubayyat and Alam, Khorshed and Gow, Jeff (2020) Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health in Australia: Explaining life shock exposure. Health Policy, 124 (1). pp. 97-105. ISSN 0168-8510
Mahumud, Rashidul Alam and Alam, Khorshed and Renzaho, Andre M. N. and Sarker, Abdur Razzaque and Sultana, Marufa and Sheikh, Nurnabi and Rawal, Lal B. and Gow, Jeff (2019) Changes in inequality of childhood morbidity in Bangladesh 1993-2014: a decomposition analysis. PLoS One, 14 (6-Article e0218515). pp. 1-19.
Sarker, Abdur Razzaque and Sultana, Marufa and Ali, Nausad and Akram, Raisul and Alam, Khorshed and Khan, Jahangir A.M. and Morton, Alec (2019) Cost of caregivers for treating hospitalized diarrheal patients in Bangladesh. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4 (1). pp. 1-14.
Alam, Khorshed and Mahumud, Rashidul Alam and Alam, Fariha and Keramat, Syed Afroz and Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael O. and Sarker, Abdur Razzaque (2019) Determinants of access to eHealth services in regional Australia. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 131 (Article 103960). ISSN 1386-5056
Approved research supervisor in the area of:
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Agricultural Economics
( 140201)
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Economic Development and Growth
( 140202)
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Environment and Resource Economics
( 140205)
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Health Economics
( 140208)
Research topics