About Abu Mohammed Naser Titu

Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, PhD, MPH, MBBS, has around ten years of research experience designing and implementing longitudinal epidemiological studies and randomized controlled trials in low-income global settings. For the past few years, Dr. Titu have been conducting research connecting chemical and nutritional qualities of drinking water with cardiometabolic disease outcomes using randomized controlled trials and observational epidemiological studies. Dr. Titu’s Ph.D. work focused on designing and implementing a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial to assess the cardiovascular health benefits of water access from managed aquifer recharge systems in seawater intrusion-affected southwest coastal communities of Bangladesh. Dr. Titu is currently developing grant proposals to explore the links of socioecological and environmental risk factors with high cardiometabolic disease burdens among Memphians and the Southwest US population.

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, Emory University
• M.P.H., Epidemiology, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• M.B.B.S., Medical Sciences, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research Interests

• Climate Change and Health
• Environmental Epidemiology
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology
• Socioecological determinants of cardiometabolic health outcomes
• Evaluation of public health interventions
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) research
• Clinical epidemiology

Selected Publications

1. Hays, C. E., Naser, A. M., Throckmorton, T. W., & Brolin, T. J. (2025). Reverse and Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Among Medicare Patients in the Ambulatory Surgery Center: A Matched Cohort Study and Retrospective Review on 90-Day Complications. Seminars in Arthroplasty: JSES. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1045452725000033
2. Mukhopadhyay, A., Mondol, M. H., Rahman, M., Unicomb, L., Khan, R., Mazumder, H., Ferdous, M. N., Pickering, E. V., Makris, K. C., & Caban-Martinez, A. J. (2025). The direct and urinary electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on population blood pressure: A causal mediation analysis. Environment international, 195, 109208. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024007955
3. Pickering, E.V., Jia, C., Naser, A. M. (2024). Drinking Water Quality in Delta and Non-Delta Counties along the Mississippi River. Water. 16(18), 2622. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/18/2622
4. Batbaatar, N., Smith, A., Jia, C., Naser, A. M., Mou, X., Vidal, G., Starlard-Davenport, A. (2024). Association of environmental factors with breast cancer incidence among African American women in Memphis, Tennessee. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09603123.2024.2400702
5. Duque, M. P., Naser, A. M., Dos Santos, G. R., O’driscoll, M., Paul, K. K., Rahman, M., Alam, M. S., Al-Amin, H. M., Rahman, M. Z., & Hossain, M. E. (2024). Informing an investment case for Japanese encephalitis vaccine introduction in Bangladesh. Science Advances, 10(32), eadp1657. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adp1657
6. Mueller, W., Zamrsky, D., Essink, G. O., Fleming, L. E., Deshpande, A., Makris, K. C., Wheeler, B. W., Newton, J. N., Narayan, K. V., & Naser, A. M. (2024). Saltwater intrusion and human health risks for coastal populations under 2050 climate scenarios. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15881. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66956-4
7. Gain, E.P.; Yu, X.; Kedia, S.K.; Naser, A.M.; Bromley, M.I.; Ajoku, M.; Mou, X. Discontinuation of Antidepressants and the Risk of Medication Resumption among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Depression in the US. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 1209. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091209
8. Whitman, E. L., Sentilles, C., Sheffer, B. W., Spence, D. D., Rowland, J. K., Naser, A. M., . . . Kelly, D. M. Pediatric Firearm Trauma on the Rise: A Retrospective Review of Over 1,100 Cases in 12 Years at One Center. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(24)00354-3/abstract
9. Mazumder, H., Mondol, M. H., Rahman, M., Khan, R., Doza, S., Unicomb, L., Jahan, F., Mukhopadhyay, A., Makris, K., & Naser, A.M. (2024). Sex-Specific Association of Ambient Temperature With Urine Biomarkers in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh. Kidney International Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.03.002
10. Ante-Testard, P. A., Rerolle, F., Nguyen, A. T., Ashraf, S., Parvez, S. M., Naser, A. M., Benmarhnia, T., Rahman, M., Luby, S. P., & Benjamin-Chung, J. (2024). WASH interventions and child diarrhea at the interface of climate and socioeconomic position in Bangladesh. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1556. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45624-1.