Medical doctor and mental health system designer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I build the institutions, policies, and programmes that make mental health care possible — with a particular focus on women, displaced communities, and populations underserved by existing systems.
I am a medical doctor, public health specialist, and mental health system designer with over six years of experience building evidence-based programmes in complex and crisis-affected settings. My work focuses not just on treating individuals, but on designing the institutional infrastructure — policies, protocols, training systems, and surveillance tools — that makes equitable mental health care possible at scale.
My training spans clinical psychiatry (FCPS training), public health (MPH, North South University), and specialised programmes in mental health in complex emergencies (Fordham University), dementia (Trinity College Dublin), and leadership in medicine (Harvard Medical School — in progress).
I currently lead the Margin Research Initiative, building research capacity among medical students in Bangladesh. From June 2026, I also serve as Research and Grants Specialist at Moner Bondhu, contributing to AI-powered mental health tools and grant strategy for digital mental health in South Asia.
Previously, as Director of Wellness at the Asian University for Women (AUW), I established and led a comprehensive student wellness ecosystem serving over 2,100 young women from 15+ countries — including large cohorts of Afghan and Rohingya students. I designed longitudinal wellbeing surveillance systems, student crisis response protocols, safeguarding frameworks, and a peer-support programme of 400+ trained Wellness Ambassadors that now serves as a model for the region.
My career has been shaped by a deep commitment to equity — removing the structural barriers of trauma, stigma, and inadequate support that prevent people from accessing care. I bring a systems-level approach grounded in cultural responsiveness and safeguarding.
Mental health systems do not run on clinical instinct alone — they require policy infrastructure, institutional frameworks, and safeguarding architecture that protects people before anything goes wrong. At the Asian University for Women, I designed and built one of Bangladesh’s first comprehensive institutional mental health systems from the ground up: a layered ecosystem of prevention, peer support, clinical care, and formal policy that served over 2,100 students from 15+ countries. The policies below are documents I authored or led as part of that work.
I welcome enquiries related to research collaboration, speaking invitations, programme consultancy, grant co-applications, and media. I am open to conversations in English, Bangla, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, or Hindi.