4.10 A More Comprehensive Approach

Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid is the Dean of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid specializes in ethnographic and qualitative research with a focus on urban slum communities and marginalized groups. She's particularly interested in examining the impact of structural and intersectional factors on the ability of those populations to realize their health rights and access to services. In 2008, she founded the Center for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and in 2013, co-founded the Center for Urban Equity and Health. Both focus on research, capacity building and influencing program designs and policies in Bangladesh.  

We speak about:

• BRAC’s approach to development
• co-thinking and co-creating with communities 
• unpacking assumptions about the ‘Global South’ 
• solution-based thinking  
• competency based learning
• building a youth friendly research culture
• decolonizing global health - and much more!  

 She joins us from Dhaka, Bangladesh.