Afroza has earned her PhD in medical anthropology from McMaster University. She collaborated with Haudenosaunee women at Six Nations of the Grand River to assess the interrelationship between water security and holistic maternal health. Afroza has over ten years of research and teaching experience in Bangladesh and Canada. Her research interest includes health and well-being, social inequality, human-environment relationship, water and food security, infectious and epidemic disease, traditional ecological knowledge, CBPR, and ethnography. At Dahdaleh Institute Afroza works on making Global Health research equitable.
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