Research Projects

PI: Professor Sabina Faiz Rashid, Dean and Director CGSRHR, BRAC JPGSPH

Co PI: Farzana Misha, Assistant Professor, BRAC JPGSPH

Objective:The project brings together anthropologists, human rights lawyers and global civil society networks for shared research, youth empowerment work, and policy engagement to promote human rights-based governance of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) in health.

Through participation in the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium:
•        Analyze laws and policies, train junior researchers, and identify youth leaders from Bangladesh and Colombia to participate in transnational youth activist networks;
•        To use legal and policy review and ethnographic research to develop case studies in Bangladesh and Colombia,
•        To participate in developing policy recommendations that address human rights risks and opportunities linked to digital technologies and artificial intelligence in health

Methodology: Qualitative

Donor: Open Society University Network (OSUN)

Partner: The Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID), BRAC University (BRAC) and the Universidad de los Andes (Andes)