Bangladesh
The Women in Global Health Bangladesh Chapter was founded officially in October 2021, encouraged by the co-founder’s desire to share their journey towards gender equality in health leadership in Bangladesh.
Women in Global Health Bangladesh, is committed to supporting Bangladeshi women contributing to the Global health sector, including but not limited to research, programs, policy, academia, and mentoring through efficient networking, education, and advocacy.
Bangladesh Chapter
is working to:
- Promote gender equality and strengthen women’s leadership and participation across all areas of global health in Bangladesh.
- Support Bangladeshi women in research, policy, programs, academia, and mentoring through networking, education, and advocacy.
- Advance inclusion and diversity by elevating marginalized women and addressing health access gaps across vulnerable communities.
- Lead awareness and capacity building initiatives on mental health, menstrual health, disability, neurodiversity, and gender diverse health rights.
- Drive policy dialogue and advocacy to reduce health disparities, improve access for underserved groups, and advance universal health coverage.
Working to advance women’s leadership in global health while promoting inclusion, equity, and better healthcare access for marginalized and underserved communities in Bangladesh.
WGH BD has been vigorously promoting inclusion and diversity since 2021 and trying to bring marginalized women to the forefront of public health. WGH-BD is now at a very primary stage, step by step, with digital promotion and a series of online activities, webinars on mental health, leading the way towards menstrual hygiene, and so on.
In addition to this, WGHBD is keen to address the challenges and gaps that exist among marginalized communities, including neurodiversity, disability rights and access, healthcare access for the informal sector, maternal and newborn health, and health services for women of all diversity in the transgender community.
WGHBD would like to hold policy discussions with her to consider initiatives aimed at the disparities created by COVID-19 on the general population and also on frontline workers, unpaid care workers, and a potential universal healthcare or insurance system.
Dr Sabrina Rasheed, Chairperson
Hochiminh Islam, Digital & Inclusivity Director
Dr Ishrat Mouri, Social Media Officer
Dr Sayeda Nazmun, Communications Director
Dr Tasdik Hasan, Strategy & Research Director
Barrister Lemona Chanda, Legal & Advocacy Director
