Grants, Honours, & Awards

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2025 CIHR Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data

Title of the Project: Effect of Neighborhood Deprivation on Cognitive Health: Examining Psychosocial and Physiological Mechanisms and Differential Risk by Minority Stress

Investigators: Mohammad Hajizadeh (PI), Mark Asbridge, Jalal Uddin, Alexa Yakubovich 

Value: ($69,292 CAD)

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2025 Shoppers Drug Mart Research Fellowship

Title of the Project: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Polypharmacy in Middle-aged and Older Canadians with Multimorbidity: An Innovative Intersectional Analysis

Investigators: Jalal Uddin (PI) and Mohammad Hajizadeh

Value: ($70,000 CAD)

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​​2022  Presidential Plenary Award, International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHAD) ($1500 CAD) 

2022  Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) - Postdoctoral Fellowship

          ($135,000 CAD) 

2022  Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University ($110,000 CAD)

2020  Pain Special Interest Group Best Trainee Award – Runner Up,                            Society of Behavioral Medicine

2020  Won Second Place, Research presentation at the 2020 Postdoctoral

          Research Day, Office of Postdoctoral Education, University of Alabama 

          at Birmingham

2019  Travel Award, Office of Postdoctoral Education, University of Alabama

          at  Birmingham

2019  The Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of

          Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2017 The William Cockerham Award for Best Graduate Student

         Paper, Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at

         Birmingham

2013  Academic Advancement Award: Alpha Kappa Delta, Iowa

          State University

2012  Fulbright Scholarship, MS in Sociology & Anthropology, Iowa State       

          University

2009  Dean’s Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of 

          Dhaka, Bangladesh

2008  UNFPA Research Fellowship, Dhaka, Bangladesh