Sabina heads the BRAC School of Public Health in Bangladesh. She has worked closely with a team on curriculum reform to continue to transform the international Masters of Public Health (MPH) program, so that students learn first-hand in the community. She’s also spent a large portion of her career dedicated to gender, sexual and reproductive health, and the health needs of people in urban slums. In 2008, she established a Centre for Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights with seed funding from an UN organization, pushing for evidence-based research, laws to stop child marriage, providing a safe space for LGBTQI communities and working to develop online resources on sensitive topics.
“Whenever I felt intimidated by the brilliant and inspiring individuals I met, my father, who was always very supportive of me, would say: ‘Sabina, 99% is aspiration, 1% is inspiration.’ Basically, you don’t have to be brilliant to make a difference, just work hard, remain sincere, committed, and passionate about what you do, and your work will speak for itself.”
