Professor (Dr.) Rowshan Ara

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MBBS, Master of Community Nutrition, MPH

Professor (Dr.) Rowshan Ara, MBBS, Master of Community Nutrition, MPH
Senior Consultant, Institute of Social Business (ISB),
Professor and Head, Dept. of Reproductive & Child Health, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS)

Professor Rowshan Ara had been serving under the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in different capacities. She has been working in public health field for the last 18 years. She has acquired wide range of knowledge and experience on public health issues, programs, methods, procedures, and standards within area of expertise, knowledge and understanding of all facets of public health programmes and ability to design, conduct and evaluate independently public health programmes. She developed the competence to collaborate and provide technical assistance to carryout public health programs in Bangladesh in collaboration with different national international & multi-national NGOs, development partners, UN & other government agencies.

For five years she had worked at National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine (NIPSOM) at the Departments of Reproductive & Child Health and at Nutrition & Biochemistry as Assistant Professor. As assistant professor the main responsibilities are teaching, training of post-graduate public health students. Plan, and develop research protocols for individual and for the institution and also conducted individual research and institutional research and supervised public researches of the students.