“We are who we are because we can tell stories”- a concept I strongly believe in. My story began in Bangladesh in 1977, a resilient country of 180 million thrashed by natural calamities and socio-economic-geographical barriers to healthcare services. In order to ensure access to quality care and support, I volunteered as a school student in social activities, charity runs and capacity development events. After school in 1995, my passion to help people motivated me to get my academic training in medicine, followed by public health, health research and digital technologies management for health.

As I began my career, in addition to health management, I kept learning and developing my competencies in inclusion, equity, ethics, result-based problem-solving, real world evidence collection, evidence-based decision making and utilizing state-of-the-art technologies to provide optimal care. Moreover, I per sued my other passion: education. My love for teaching has been sharpened by developing and conducting multi-level, multi-discipline, multi-purpose workshops, trainings, guidelines, checklists, source materials, policy briefs etc.

In 2008, I moved to Europe and continues to develop myself in health, technology and policy as I wanted to create synergy among the three. My experience across Bangladesh, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria as well as studying different health care systems/models, helped me to start and manage two digital health start-ups. My passion for health tech is now expanded to AI, AR, VR, med tech, space tech, fem tech and so on.

Currently, I continue to work with four COST actions, three Horizon EU projects and many NGOs, all relevant to long-term care including informal care, formal care, integrated care, digital health, mental health, health education, science diplomacy etc. But the main theme of my story has always been the same. “What can I do to ensure that people receive optimal care and have best possible quality of life?”, is the question I am trying to answer every day.