[14] She studied medical demography at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
[17] She worked on the memoir of her father with her mother, Umme Kulsum Siddiqua Banu, who died in 2008.
[20] She signed a letter with other women researchers protesting the removal of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank.
[21] The other signatories were Amena Mohsin, Farida Akhter, Firdous Azim, Hameeda Hossain, Mahera Khatun, Maleka Begum, Mahmuda Islam, Najma Siddiqui, Nashid Kamal, Perween Hasan, Rasheda K Chowdhury, Rizwana Hasan, Rounaq Jahan, Salma Ali, Salma Khan, Shaheen Anam, Shireen Huq, Tasnim Azim, and Tahrunessa Abdullah.
[22] From 2014 to 2015, Mahmud was a member of the Economic and Political Citizenship working group at the Cord Network.
[17] Mahmud died on 18 March 2018 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.