Papreen Nahar has been awarded a PhD and a Master’s in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and her first Master’s in Child Development and Family Relations, University of Dhaka. Nahar has been conducting numbers of interdisciplinary research on diverse global health issues using medical anthropological and gender perspectives. Her research expertise are Health inequalities and Health system (Formal and Informal), Global public health and Research Methodology. Her current involvement is with Social Science Capacity Building for Sever Stigmatising Skin Diseases in 3 African countries. Capacity building on Non-communicable diseases and Comorbidity with mental health in 3 South Asian countries, Co-design community engagement CVD risk reduction implementation among disadvantage population in UK. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pathways in Bangladesh via formal and informal health system. Her Geographic area of work covers, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, The Netherlands, UK.

Formerly, Nahar held posts at the Dept. of Primary Care and Public Health; BSMS, Dept. of Anthropology; the University of Durham, Centre for Primary care and Populations Studies; University of Manchester. She has completed her two postdoctoral studies at the Dept. of Anthropology; the University of Durham, and the Institute for Health and Society; University of Newcastle. Prior to that, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka and the Independent University of Bangladesh. Also worked at ICDDR, B. Nahar obtained grants from several councils; ESRC-GHC, NIHR-RIGHT, NIHR-GHRG, COR-NTD, NSPCR and HeRC. She has published over 20 research articles and over 10 book chapters.