Lecturer
Dr. Faojia Sultana is a medical doctor from Bangladesh and a public health professional. She has nearly 5 years of work experience in global and public health research. From 2015 to 2016, she worked as a co-investigator and research fellow in several public health projects under the Nutrition and Clinical Services Division of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). In the year 2016, she was awarded with a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK to pursue her MSc degree in Global Health and Development at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. She successfully completed her MSc degree in September 2017 with a higher merit. Since January 2018, she has been working as a Lecturer of Public Health at the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Phone: +88-02-9661920-73, Ext: 8640, 8641 (Office)
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Web site: https://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/IHE/2628
Mailing address: Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000 Bangladesh
Dr. Faojia’s research interests include global public health, health systems and policy, epidemiology, mental health, health sector reform and global health governance. Dr. Faojia has worked on several quantitative and qualitative studies in the areas of her above-mentioned research interests. During her tenure at icddr,b, she was a Co-Investigator of a research project assessing the underlying factors of stunting among urban slum children of Bangladesh and it was funded by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). She was also involved in developing proposals of a few research projects focused on maternal malnutrition issues, and costing of malnutrition in Bangladesh. She has done substantial research and literature review for her MSc Dissertation at the Institute of Global Health, University College London under the supervision of Associate Professor Shivani Singh Sharma in the year 2017. Her dissertation work was centered on analyzing the barriers towards achieving Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh.
For the past two years, she has been working as a public health expert on several IHE projects funded by various national and international organizations. These projects were mostly focused on exploring the health system issues related to healthcare financing, human resources for health and healthcare delivery process in the healthcare organizations of Bangladesh. She is currently also working as the principal investigator on two internally funded quantitative research projects in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. She is actively involved in project development, proposal building, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript writing phases of these projects.
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