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Umme Salma Anee
Senior Research Assistant
About Me
Umme Salma Anee has been working at ARK Foundation since February 2022 as a Senior Research Assistant. She holds an engineering degree and a postgraduate degree in public health, having begun her career as a public health researcher. She focuses in quantitative and qualitative research, data analysis, mapping, writing research articles and reports. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and her abstracts have been selected for international conferences such as the International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH).
Currently, Anee is engaged in multiple projects under the Community-led Responsive and Effective Urban Health Systems (CHORUS) initiative, which focuses on strengthening urban health systems in areas like non-communicable disease (NCD) care, gender norms, health-seeking behaviors, and promoting physical activity among urban residents. She has worked extensively with vulnerable groups, including the third gender, urban slum dwellers, adolescent girls, NCD patients, urban primary care providers, and students.
Anee was previously awarded the Tobacco Control Policy Research Grant from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, collaborating with the Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) on research into tobacco industry branding strategies and their impact on young adults. She is set to attend the CHORUS South Asia Innovation Fund Analysis and Writing Workshop in Nepal in 2024 and participated in the CHORUS South Asian Regional Writing Workshop in 2023.
Her collaborations extend to national and international development partners such as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) through the NCDC of DGHS, the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C), Dhaka and Khulna City Corporations, the Bangladesh Cricket Board, WHO, NGO partners and various academic institutions. Anee is passionate about strengthening urban health systems, addressing gender norms, promoting physical activity, and contributing to strengthening health system in response to climate change.
Currently, Anee is engaged in multiple projects under the Community-led Responsive and Effective Urban Health Systems (CHORUS) initiative, which focuses on strengthening urban health systems in areas like non-communicable disease (NCD) care, gender norms, health-seeking behaviors, and promoting physical activity among urban residents. She has worked extensively with vulnerable groups, including the third gender, urban slum dwellers, adolescent girls, NCD patients, urban primary care providers, and students.
Anee was previously awarded the Tobacco Control Policy Research Grant from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, collaborating with the Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) on research into tobacco industry branding strategies and their impact on young adults. She is set to attend the CHORUS South Asia Innovation Fund Analysis and Writing Workshop in Nepal in 2024 and participated in the CHORUS South Asian Regional Writing Workshop in 2023.
Her collaborations extend to national and international development partners such as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) through the NCDC of DGHS, the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C), Dhaka and Khulna City Corporations, the Bangladesh Cricket Board, WHO, NGO partners and various academic institutions. Anee is passionate about strengthening urban health systems, addressing gender norms, promoting physical activity, and contributing to strengthening health system in response to climate change.
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