Ecological Burden of e-Waste in Bangladesh—an Assessment to Measure the Exposure to e-Waste and Associated Health Outcomes: Protocol for a Cross-sectional Study

Sarker Masud Parvez   ^{1, 2} , MPH ;   Shaikh Sharif Hasan   ² , MBBS ;   Luke D Knibbs   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Farjana Jahan   ² , MBBS ;   Mahbubur Rahman   ² , MBBS ;   Rubhana Raqib   ² , PhD ;   Nafisa Islam   ⁵ , PhD ;   Nirupam Aich   ⁶ , PhD ;   Mohammad Moniruzzaman   ⁷ , PhD ;   Zahir Islam   ¹ , PhD ;   Masatake Fujimura   ⁸ , PhD ;   Peter D Sly   ¹ , DSC

¹ Children’s Health and Environment Program, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

² Environmental Interventions Unit, Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

³ School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁴ Public Health Unit, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Department of Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁶ Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States

⁷ Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁸ Department of Basic Medical Sciences, National Institute for Minamata Disease, Minamata City, Kumamoto, Japan