Sabina F. Rashid

Commissioner

Professor at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health and Director of the Centre for Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Sabina F. Rashid, PhD, is a Professor and holds the Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is also the Director of the Centre for Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and previously served as Dean from August 2013 to 2023.

She is a medical anthropologist with over two decades of experience, and specializes in ethnographic research on health disparities. Her work examines how structural, political, social, and economic factors, in conjunction with gender and poverty, impact the lives, health, and well-being of women, adolescents, and marginalized communities in slums, refugee settings, and disadvantaged populations across Bangladesh.