FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Fatima Jahan

Lecturer


Department:
Zoology

Email:
fatimajahan@sbbwu.edu.pk

Name

Dr. Fatima Jahan

Personal

Religion:                    Islam

Marital status:           Married

Nationality:                Pakistani

Mother tongue:         Pashto

Contact#                     091-9224787

Email ID:     fatimajahan@sbbwu.edu.pk

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-1541

Experience

  • Lecturer Department of Zoology, (2022)-present Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, Pakistan
  • IPFP Fellow Department of Zoology, (2021-2022) Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Monitoring and data collection assistant, (2015-2020). Independent Monitoring Unit Health Department Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Lecturer Army Public School and colleges (Boys). (2009-2013)

Qualification

  • PHD Zoology (parasitology). University of Peshawar
  • Post Doc: Cancer Biology. Ohio State University

Honor and Awards

HEC approved supervisor

Memberships

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Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

Graduate Research

  • Bioaccumulation of heavy metals and its genotoxic effects on the blood lymphocytes of Cement factory workers (2024). 
  • Evaluation of heavy metals and their association with DNA damage in Pesticide workers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan (2024). 
  • Biomonitoring of Heavy Metals and DNA Damage in The Blood Samples of Traffic Police Wardens from Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan (2024). 

Undergraduate Research:

  • Prevalence of malaria and identifying its risk factors in District Peshawar. 
  • Prevalence of Acne vulgaris among females and identifying the Risk factors at District Peshawar. 
  • Prevalence and associated Risk Factors of Malaria among suspected individuals of District Swat. 
  • Knowledge and perception about dengue fever among suspected individuals visiting Naseer Ullah Khan Babar Hospital, Peshawar. 
  • Maternal perception of cesarean section among pregnant women visiting Naseer Ullah Babar Memorial Hospital, Peshawar. 
  • Perception of married females about caesarian-section deliveries visiting City Hospital Lakki Marwat; district lakki marwat. 
  • Distribution of malaria infection and risk factors among clinically suspected individuals of Peshawar. 
  • Identification of malaria-positive cases and contributing risk factors among patients visiting MTI Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar.
  • Pattern and risk factors of congenital heart disease among children visiting Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.
  • Risk factors of malnutrition in children.
  • Prevalence and risk factors of congenital heart defect among children visiting tertiary hospitals in Peshawar
  • Prevalence of dandruff (Malassezia globose) and identifying risk factors in adult population of District Peshawar.
  • Pattern and risk factors of malnourishment in children visiting Naseer Ullah Khan Babar Memorial hospital, Peshawar.

Service Activity

  • Departmental Focal person for QEC
  • Departmental Focal person for Admission
  • Departmental focal person. Mega project (2023)

Brief Statement of Research Interest

Epidemiology and control, Parasitology, Toxicology, Genotoxicity, Molecular Epidemiology, Gene-Environment Interactions, Epigenetics, Fisheries, Entomology, Vector Born Diseases, Wildlife and Conservation, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Publications

  1. Jahan, A., Mir, H., Mohammad, J., & Jahan, F. (2025). The Effect of Zinc Supplementation on The Duration of Acute Watery Diarrhea in Children Age 6 Months To 5 Years Old. Indus Journal of Bioscience Research, 3(3), 128-132.
  2. Tanzila G, Rasheed SB, Khan NH, Kausar A, Jahan F, Wahid S. Insecticide susceptibility and detection of kdr-gene mutations in Aedes aegypti of Peshawar, Pakistan. Acta Tropica. (2023) 5:242.
  3. Kausar, A., Wahid, S., Ali, N., Jahan, F., Tanzila, G., & Khan, N. H. (2023). Characterization and critical analysis of parameters that impacts productivity of Aedes mosquito species: breeding preferences of dengue vectors in urban foci of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 43(4), 1317-1325.
  4. Khan A, Jahan F, Zahoor M, Ullah R, Albadrani GM, Mohamed HRH, Khisroon M. Association of genetic polymorphism of glutathione S-transferases with colorectal cancer susceptibility in snuff (Naswar) addicts. Braz J Biol. (2022) 6(84):e261509.
  5. Kausar A, Ullah F, Jahan F, Khan K, Wahid S, Tanzila G, Khan NH. Bionomics of Bactrocera fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; exploring performance of various trap types and their characteristics. Florida Entomologist. (2022) 105(3):231-242.
  6. Jahan F, Khan NH, Wahid S, Ullah Z, Kausar A, Ali N. Malaria epidemiology and comparative reliability of diagnostic tools in Bannu; an endemic malaria focus in South of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Pathogens and Global Health. (2019) 113(2):75-85.
  7. Ali N, Ahmed J, Jahan F, Saleem S. Transfusion transmitted malaria in three major blood banks of Peshawar, Pakistan. African Journal of Biotechnology. (2010). 9(33).

Research Grants and Contracts

Grant of Rs. 1 Million under IPFP by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (2021-2022), Title: “Epidemiology of Malaria in District Peshawar; Comparing Performance of Different Diagnostic Techniques”.

Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

Postgraduate thesis evaluated

  • Investigation of intestinal helminths in Tor putitora, district Dir lower, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. From the University of Peshawar. June 2022.
  • Bola-drb3 gene polymorphism in association with resistance or susceptibility to bovine leukemia virus infection in Achai cattle". From the University of Peshawar. Nov 2021.
  • Comparative evaluation of different clinical samples for detection of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. From the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. July 2021.

Selected Professional Presentations

Seminar and workshops attended:

  • “Isolation, identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of E. coli and Salmonella”
  • Research project procurement, budgeting, and planning October 15, 2022.
  • One-month NFDP training workshop by NAHE (HEC, 2020).
  • 21st-century classroom: how to transform curricula and teaching practices. Training. Dated: 7th- -11th March 2022. Organized by USEFP.
  • Security Survey for Health Care Facilities. International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC). 12-13 Sept 2019.
  • 37th Pakistan Congress of Zoology (International) at GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan, 28th Feb-2nd. March 2017.
  • Quality Management in Health Care with Special Reference to Assessments. GIZ, German Cooperation. 3-7 Aug 2015
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis (SPSS). Center for Human Resource & Career Development (CHRCD). 22-26, Sept 2014.
  • 33rd Pakistan congress of zoology (International): At Benazir conventional hall, Islamabad. 27 April -1st May 2013.
  • Two days training workshop on “Control of Vector and Vector Born Diseases” 6- 7 Oct 2011.