Short Biography

Abdul Jabbar is a Deputy Project Coordinator with seven years of experience working at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. He specializes in Project coordination, Qualitative research, Mass communication, Innovative training planning and facilitation, Proposal writing, Budget preparing, Opinion writing, and Innovative script writing. His current research project titled: Adolescent Menstrual Experience and Health Cohort Study in Bangladesh (AMEHC) and Effective Digital Health Platform for Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR) Services: A Mixed-methods Approach to Understanding User Experiences, Needs, and Rights in Bangladesh. Previously, in 2019 he coordinated a nation-wide survey on male youth SRHR and in 2016-2017 he worked in a project titled: Psychodrama as transformative intervention in the SRH of young men in urban slums in Dhaka; proof of a novel approach. Where psychodrama used as an educational module to reduce risky masculine behavior of young men in urban slum. Back in 2015, he worked as a Research Assistant at BRAC Urban Development Program for one year. He visited 100+ slums and prepared demographic profile of the slums at different cities in Bangladesh. He completed his MSS in the department of Government and Politics from Jahangirnagar University. He is a public health researcher as well as a theatre activist. He worked foe five years at a theatre named Jalshidi (A music based theatre). His research interests are Adolescent health, Mental health, Gender and GBV, SRHR, CSE, Menstrual health, , Health system and local government, Health system and border politics, Women in politics, Women empowerment, and Migration. He believes in a society with equity.