I am an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Augusta University with joint appointments at the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Hull College of Business.
I am an applied microeconomist. My expertise is in applied microeconomics, that broadly covers the areas of global health, health economics, population health, public health, and public finance.
My current research focuses the social determinants of health outcomes and health disparities, and the economics of prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in developing countries. My works got published in various peer-reviewed journals including:
Health Economics, SSM: Population Health, Journal of Human Hypertension, International Journal of Equity in Health, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, BMC Public Health, PLoS ONE, The American Journall of Cardiology, Journal of the American Heart Association, and Tobacco Control.
Featured Publications
Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Fazlul, I. (2020), "Tobacco control and household tobacco consumption: A tale of two educational groups", Health Economics
Datta, B. K., Haider, M. R., Tiwari, A., Jahan, M., (2022), "The risk of hypertension among child brides and adolescent mothers at age 20 s, 30 s, and 40 s: Evidence from India", Journal of Human Hypertension
Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Kostova, D. (2021), "Hypertension in women: the role of adolescent childbearing", BMC Public Health
Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Husain, M.M., Kostova, D. (2018), "Noncommunicable disease-attributable medical expenditures, household financial stress and impoverishment in Bangladesh", SSM – Population Health
Latest Publication
Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Pollard, E., Ravula, H. (2023), "The Influence of Parent’s Cardiovascular Morbidity on Child Mental Health: Results from the National Health Interview Survey", Children, 10(1): 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010138.