Interview with Sabina Faiz Rashid, Dean and Professor at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University

Abstract

Sabina Faiz Rashid, serves as a Professor and Dean at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is also a founder and director of the Centre of Excellence for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Trained as a medical anthropologist from the Australian National University, she has been serving Bangladesh since 1993. With over 20 years’ experience in research, she is actively engaged in translating knowledge into action at the grassroots and national level and is a member of several national and international policy and advocacy committees. She is an expert in ethnographic and qualitative research and her areas of research focuses on gender, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and the well-being of adolescents, women, men, and marginalized populations, and how structural and social inequalities create greater vulnerability for the poorest and impact their ability to realize their fundamental health and human rights. A significant portion of her research also focuses on informal slum settlements.