Speakers - 2025

Biography

Dr. Nowsheen Purabi has 20 years’ experience as medical practitioner, teacher and 16 years’ experience as health right activist, media personality. She has completed her MBBS in 2003 from Bangladesh Medical College, MCPS from Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons. Then she worked in Z. H. Sikder Women’s Medical College and Anwer Khan Modern Medical College. She is dedicated to empower women through comprehensive health education and support. After completing her US Department of States sponsored fellowship on Human Rights in Child Birth she is now the leading practitioner who is working to establish respectful maternity care and stop unnecessary C-section in Bangladesh. She is working with UNFPA, WHO, DGNM, DGFP to train health workforce on maternal health care.

Her free lecture on reproductive and maternal health in YouTube is widely accepted in home and abroad. She has been recognized as ‘Top 10 health awareness activist’ by LinkedIn 2016, Brand Ambassador of Microsoft. Different Government organizations of Bangladesh are the principal buyer of her published book ‘Life Stories: Observation of a Physician’, ‘Menstrupedia’ which they are using as advocacy material.

She is working with DGFP as master trainer on adolescent friendly health services [menstrual hygiene management], MR, MRM, Post abortion care, long acting reversible contraceptive.

She had run a campaign, advocacy, lobbying on reduction of tax from sanitary napkin to support the reproductive health wellness of women. After 1.5years of uninterrupted activism Bangladesh Government reduced the tax from raw materials of sanitary napkin and made it freely available for all adolescent girls in health center.

She is working with BTEB and NSDA to uplift the skill of health workers, care givers. She is the ART[Academic, Trainer Researcher constituency member of PMNCH, WHO]. To know more, visit: www.drpurabi.net