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Microbiologist-activist in-between microbes & public health fighting for equity. Deputy ED @chrfbd . Science by & for all. Founder "Building Scientists for 🇧🇩"
Bangladesh 🇧🇩 (🇨🇦)
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Microbiologist mother, microbiologist daughter, microbiologist father - we
#BreakTheBias
as a team.
#IWD2022
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These are some of the "beds" many of my colleagues slept on when we started our 24h covid lab in March/April 2020 during lockdowns. Very few people understand how hard we work to generate data in low-resource settings. But we are very grateful that our work saves lives.
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Fought cancer at 24.
Fighting Crohns disease since 25. Moved to Bangladesh to better use my second chance at life at 29.
But my hardest fight at 36 is "global health"- a field that systematically oppresses the oppressed.
Not giving up. 2nd life anyways. But wish I were a cat.
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Watching pictures of Americans, British, Canadians get vaccinated is like waiting in economy line & watching business class board.
By the time economy class boards, business class has their seat belts on, drinking champagne, munching warm cashews, looking at the menu.
#inequity
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Dear global north "collaborator", when you come to a global south site, gather data in a few days, write a paper & dont ancknowedge local input as it was "just" a few days, you are forgetting the few years spent building that site to generate data.
#decolonize
#globalhealth
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We got the notice of award for our first NIH R01 grant today! We will study how phages determine spread of AMR in bacteria -a grant written by scientists in Bangladesh for Bangladesh & the world. Celebrating with fuchka & shingaras all day of course!
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Covid-19 vaccination began today in Bangladesh 🇧🇩. On the first day 31,160 people were vaccinated. Go Bangladesh!
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We've known each other for 11y, married for 7. We never remember anniversaries, but never forget to edit each others manuscripts. We spend more time apart than together, but we're better (and calmer) beings bcoz of each other. Happy random Tuesday partner!
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We inaugurated a genomics lab today dedicated towards training the next generation of scientists. A sequencing machine dedicated to fighting diseases by empowering, engaging, and educating local scientists.
Thank you
@illumina
for all your support! A new journey begins here...
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Woke up to this 😭😭
Cant thank
@TheLancet
enough. But of course
@chrfbd
makes everything easy & turn my random, crazy ideas into sustainable realities, whether its sequencing meningitis samples or setting up a science camp at the other end of Bangladesh.
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When I tested +ve for Covid19, I was stuck between being a patient & being a scientist working on Covid-19.
Thanks
@LancetGH
for publishing my/our story!
As upset as I am, it has provided with more ammunition for the fight against inequities in health.
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Our science communicator is getting married! And of course she has DNA hidden in her mehndi!!
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I tested
#COVID19
negative today after 64 excruciatingly lonely and painful days. I still have a long way to go before I fully recover, but I hugged Ma today, I hugged Baba today, I resumed my wait for a vaccine today. I am a winner today.
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#colonialism
in
#globalhealth
100 local health workers spend 100s of 1000s of hours collecting data. A western researcher
asks for data. A local statistician stays up nights, cleans, sends. A single-word journal publishes with no local input. A tenure track position is filled.
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A sneak peek to what comes whenever the husband visits his mom in Delhi before coming to Dhaka. This time he carried a whole extra suitcase 😂. Perks of having a mother-in-law from a different country.
In this picture are 6 different pickles, gajar halwa, and besan halwa 😁😁
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"She is too young"- I heard before I could log out after meeting an international group in Bangladesh, who had reached out seeking help with a mysterious outbreak.
I am young, a woman & brown. I am also a molecular mirobiologist who specializes in mysterious disease diagnosis.
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I want to be a good scientist, want every Bangladeshi to have equitable access to health. That means I dedicate every bit of my energy to science. I have tremendous family support to take care of everything at home so I can focus on work.
#CantHaveItAll
#IWD2023
PC. V Mehra
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Eid Mubarak from Dhaka, home sweet home….
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@ValeriaRoman
Bangladesh does have a HUGE Argentina fanbase. In my lab, many desks have argentina flags at the moment!
Best wishes for the world cup!
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My immune system fights me, so does global health. But I fight back. Hence, back on Twitter.
Early 2023, my inflammatory bowel disease started flaring, leading to increasing pain, bleeding. Previous meds proved ineffective. Pain spread to my joints affecting daily activities.
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After being constantly criticized for taking a job 5000 miles away from husband, one day I broke & asked husband if he was upset. He asked back "I took a job too that is 5000 miles away from wife, you mad?"
"To be personally happy, we need to be professionally happy" we agreed.
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>15 months into the pandemic. 8 approved vaccines. Rich 20y olds get vaccines. Rich countries lift lockdowns. People in India die from lack of oxygen. All while the richest fight to protect IP rights. Rich become richer. We, the poor, die. How is this world sleeping at night?
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An evening with the Honourable Prime Minister of Bangladesh! It was an absolute privilege moderating ‘Let’s Talk with Sheikh Hasina’. Watching her engage so openly and honestly with the youth made two hours fly by! An evening I’ll cherish forever.
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I've been following
@ShamikaRavi
for a while. So when I found myself with her in a working group discussing vaccine apartheid, followed by a long corridor chat on professional/personal life, then listening to her talk about India in numbers - it was a treat. She rocks! Im a fan!
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After 17 days & 5 h together, I returned to Dhaka, Yogesh to Cambridge.
Living 8000 k apart isnt easy. But to serve our communities, do good science, fight for equity, some sacrifices are needed.
Dont know when we'll meet next, but know that it will be fun & filled with love.
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India is the largest vaccine manufacturer of the world. Many get to celebrate their 5th birthday because of India. But now patients in India (COVID & non-COVID) are dying because of lack of oxygen!! The world needs solidarity, unity. Let's fight the virus, not each other.
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Ending 2022 with
@NatureComms
article from Bangladesh describing "Paratype"!
#Paratyphoid
= tropical disease neglected globally, impeding genomic studies. We developed an open-access genotyping scheme, Paratype, to segregate
#Salmonella
#Paratyphi
A.
1/6
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What to do what to do we are in Kathmandooo! Eid Mubarak to all! ❤️❤️
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Our sequencing superstar
@AfrozaTanni
just loaded 142 bacterial & viral samples in our NextSeq2000. Crazy long hours, but look at her! This woman inspires me, us everyday with her energy, motivation, dedication & smile.
@chrfbd
#WomenInSTEM
#WomeninScience
#womenintech
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Covid19 is just showing the world how colonial health is and was. That lives are not equal. Few of us knew it. Hopefully more are seeing it. May be some will remember it.
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Prottoy wrote the most incredible letter of why he deserves an internship opportunity at CHRF. He is only in Grade 12!
Today I finally got to meet him in person before he ran off to start a PCR & run a gel.
Everyday, I get to meet brilliant minds like Prottoy, the future.
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Biiiiiig updates friends!
1. As of today, I am fully vaccinated.
2. I celebrated with our newest family member, Aurora, in Dhaka Bangladesh.
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2.3 million people were vaccinated within 13 days in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 🇧🇩
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As summer begins, "out of office" messages accumulate in my inbox from HIC colleagues. During your vacation, please keep advocating for vaccine
#equity
. Why? Here's a personal reason.
Im a cancer survivor, healthcare worker. I havnt received a dose yet. Like most Bangladeshis.
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If your friend/collaborator in South Asia is taking time to respond to emails, don't be annoyed. Just assume that either they themselves or a family member is fighting Covid19. Pretty safe assumption at the moment.
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Can you tell how HAPPY I am to finally meet these two women?? These two have been my role models throughout
#covid19
.
@firefoxx66
helped us set up nextstrain and we nonstop followed
@AineToole
to set up pangolin.
#womenintech
#womeninscience
Virtual friends -> real life friends
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Super excited to announce the details of “Modelling the Microscopic Masters Thesis Scholarship 2024”!
I have decided to use the money I received as part of “Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Padak 2023” - highest civilian award for women in 🇧🇩 - for more research... 1/2
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Back TOGETHER after 8 loooong years! The last (and first) time Yogesh and I were together in Delhi was for our wedding in Dec 2014!
On a vengeance to eat all the chat and golgappas that we haven't in the last 8 years.
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My father, Prof Samir Saha, has won the Ekushey Padak - the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh. This man dedicated his life to public health research, continues to work nonstop to save lives.
@ChrfSaha
@chrfbd
@shoedeepto
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I dreaded undergrad courses with "participation" marks. Every time I forced myself to ask a question my pulse ⬆️2X. Before then I was never asked if I had a question. I hope these young women at our science camps remember forever that they can question & have rights to answers.
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We are in this crisis together & we argue from 🇧🇩🇮🇳🇳🇵🇵🇰🇱🇰 that focusing on a ‘Stronger Together’ future is necessary to tackle COVID19 & other challenges in South Asia.
@veena_sriram
@shashikaLB
@DrSoumyadeepB
@GMalavige
@nukhbazia
@ZabirHasan
@GMalavige
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Building Scientists for Bangladesh - in Munshiganj today!
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A key article on dengue is behind a paywall, locked away from readers on who lay the largest risk of dengue infections. If we could pay the $199 to subscribe to Nature, we would not be at risk of dengue, our lives would have more value. Thanks,
@Nature
! Never stop disappointing!
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It is the support system around us that make us who we are.
This amazing scientist,
@yogihooda88
, traveled half way across the world to come to Bangladesh & establish a cutting edge Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Research Laboratory
@chrfbd
. His bio -
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It's online! The latest COVID-19 surge in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of the B.1.351 variant -
@GlobalHealthBMJ
We've been conducting genomic surveillance in Bangladesh since April 2020. Here, we report major changes in circulating SARS-CoV-2. 1/n
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Faiza came to meet me as soon as I arrived at the Monir Ahmed Academy in Sylhet. She'd been waiting to meet the "scientist" & ask all her questions.
Faiza is in Grade I. She wants to be a scientist & she's curious about what she should do now. Her pursuit has already begun!
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Our home for the next two days is a classroom in a women's college in a small village in southern Bangladesh. We will convert this room into a bio lab & hang with 12 young girls. We will learn about good, bad, ugly bacteria, AMR, gram stain, viruses, soap, iodine & so much more!
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I finally got my 1st dose today! It's incredible how many people & how much love & care came together to ensure I'm vaccinated despite shortages. It has reminded me, once again, of my privilege and hence my responsibilities towards serving Bangladesh.
❤
@chrfbd
❤
#Bangladesh
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Genomics is one thing & genomics for public health in resource constrained settings is another.
We are thrilled with the 📈 number of 🌎 applications in 2023! Was a pleasure to host Olivia, U of Minnesota, & Dr. Syafinaz, U Putra Malaysia, as nextgen sequencing trainees
@chrfbd
!
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Psyched to be joining the
@PLOSGPH
Editorial Board, an
#OpenScience
journal for public health research that broadens the range of global perspectives we learn from to advance the health of all humankind.
@paimadhu
@CKyobutungi
@JuliaE_Robinson
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I thought I would be watching cricket with parents in Bangladesh and give them company, but they appear to have much better and devoted company.
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Officially launched in 🇧🇩 "A Global Pediatric Cell Atlas of the Nasal & Oral Mucosa". 1st participant took my glasses, 2nd my heart, in return for a swab. Grateful to the community, mothers & field team. Thanks to Boston Childrens, MIT & donor
@ChanZuckerberg
#SingleCellGenomics
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I am finally figuring out (I think) how to connect with teenage boys & get them excited about science! There were 500 students (half boys) during our science discussion in Haimchar. Despite extreme heat, all stayed, laughed, interacted, asked questions & of course, took selfies!
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Vaccine apartheid leaves us reeling from COVID-19. Despite following all "rules" 🇧🇩 fights deadly 3rd wave. We use genomics, mobility data & historical trends of vaccine access to argue for local vaccine manufacturing.
New waves, new variants, old inequity
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I receive many messages through social media/emails from girls wanting to be scientists. Today I received my 1st handwritten letter during a school visit in a village.
"I want to be a scientist like you. Pray for me.
Nisfa & Papri
Grade VI"
The letter came with icecream 😭😭
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At least 13 people positive in our team as I write this. All symptomatic. One colleague (in their 20s) is needing oxygen. Ones father is hospitalized.
But profit mongering continues, locally, globally.
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In a small village, a girl watched bacteria swim in her yogurt. As I watched her, I thought of my days in my dads lab - a joy like nothing I ever felt before.
1st collaboration between Anannya &
@chrfbd
towards building the next gen Bangladeshi scientists.
#WomenInSTEM
#IWD
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I don't want our next generation of women scientists to face the obstacles that I do, or my mother did. And I am going to work towards that till my last breath. This young girl was a strong reminder.
This little girl walked up to
@senjutisaha
because she wanted a picture with, 'the scientist'. She will grow up knowing what a scientist looks like! I didn't.
Role models are important. Grateful to Dr. Senjuti for painting the empowering image of what women scientists look like!
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"I had heard so much about bacteria, but I never thought I would be able to see them" - one said.
"I feel like a microbiologist" - another said.
Day 1 of "Building Scientists for Bangladesh" was a blast!
More details coming up...
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A full time microbiologist in Bangladesh makes <€9500/year & we use the rest to buy primers/probes. Why would I bother submitting to these racist, sexist journals? For my acaemic career? Well, I gave up "academia" when I moved here to work for people & soceity. So I dont care.
The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing.
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Much of getting research grants in LMICs is knowing the right people (philanthropist groups) & convincing them to fund our research = (glorified) begging. I left Canada to come do science in Bangladesh. But became a part time scientist, full time beggar. Want to do more science!
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I miss women role models, but it also means that WE "get to paint the picture of a Bangladesh where women scientists have the agency to design their own future"
#womenintech
#WomenInSTEM
Thanks
@IndianExpress
for publishing this on
#Bangladesh
's 50th.
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Just loving watching my feed fill up with announcements of editorial board members of
@PLOSGPH
! The large & diverse team that it's getting together is undoubtedly unique. I truly believe this will bring big changes in GH & add to
@GlobalHealthBMJ
. So happy to be part of both!
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Meet Noon! I first met him on Feb 17 - lying on a ward bed, eyes closed, barely moving, hardly aware of his surroundings. He had
#meningitis
.
We took this pic 7 days later. When I picked him up, he immediately came for my glasses, just like any 8 mon old would! He is home now!
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I have barely left work the past three days. Back to back three grant deadlines. And since this morning my mother has been sending me cat pictures and all I can focus on are mothers and cats 😭😭😭 this beauty is just toooo much to handle.
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Because this picture must be shared with the world.
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First single cell data in, by, from
#Bangladesh
! Contributing to the
@humancellatlas
! Just the beginning. More to come from nasopharyngeal mucosa with & without infections. Cant thank
@ordovas_phd
& team enough. Plus
@shaleklab
& of course our donors
@cziscience
@JCoolScience
!
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One step at a time: building the next generation of scientists.
We are partnering with private and public universities to train students & develop genomics skills around the country. Today we signed our first agreement with BRAC University!
Science for all!
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Bangladesh kicked ass in the latest cricket series against Australia!
এরকম জয় কে ই কি বলে "সিম্পলের মধ্যে গর্জিয়াস"?
সে যাই হোক, একেই বলে জয় বাংলা!
বেচে থাকো
@BCBtigers
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8 team members tested positive in the past 2 days. Lab & field teams are struggling to keep up. No, this is not an internal outbreak, they have different stations. This is the pandemic that's still ongoing. In a parallel universe, lockdowns are ending, sporting events resuming.
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I woke up to this 😊😊 I feel so honored. Thank you, thank you!
We are kicking off 2022 with our latest SPOTLIGHT Interview. We spoke with
@senjutisaha
about how she got involved in public health, her research in
#Bangladesh
and ways to improve
#equity
within
#globalhealth
research. Read more:
@chrfbd
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And our second
#iseq100
dedicated to training the next generation of scientists has arrived!!! Thank you
@illumina
!! We cannot wait to unpack and invite our first trainees. Big scholarship announcements for women scientists coming soon!
🙏🏽🙏🏽
@fdesouza
,
@Envirosharon
& team!
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This is the closest we came to a New Year family picture with the all 4 of us in one frame. I say this is a really good start!!
Happy New Year!!
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I have some amazing young colleagues who aspire to pursue masters/doctoral degrees. But also want to do projects that will serve Bangladesh. Wondering which universities in US/Canada/UK are open to win-win collaborations with our research foundation/NGO.
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Today
@chrfbd
graduated from
#iseq100
to
#NextSeq2000
! Another step closer to our dream -
#decolonize
#genomics
. We sequenced
#dengue
,
#RSV
,
#SARSCoV2
, flu, Candida in
#Bangladesh
with our tiny sequencer. We will do SO MUCH more with this one. Thanks
@gatesfoundation
@czbiohub
!
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Look at Adittya's happiness as his newest scientist friend discovers the coloful world bacteria for the first time. Adittya is a senior training officer of our Building Scientists for Bangladesh team. This was yesterday in a rural school in Chittagong.
কি মধুর একটা ছবি...
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Was recently criticized for having a media section in my CV. By contrast, I specifically hire people who speaks science all day, everywhere. Science communication should be a requirement to get a faculty position. Antivaxxers, antimaskers are results of our lack of communication.
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So happy (and pleasantly surprised) to see Bangladesh still all excited about first single cell genomics in the country!
It's all friends who believed in Bangladesh, and
@ordovas_phd
for shepherding us through there process!
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Eid Mubarak from our family to yours ❤
For us, its another Eid 5000 miles apart. We have so many plans for when the world reopens, families reunite, hugs resume...
(This picture was taken the only time we were both in Bangladesh at the same time, years ago.)
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It was an absolute honor to speak before our Prime Minister and highlight the progress Bangladesh has made in women empowerment and gender equity. Together, we celebrated Bangladesh's transition from a least developed country to a developing country.
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The cat was hiding there all along!!
My cat isn't a fan of my science communication skills I guess....
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A 2-day science camp followed by our largest interactive science discussion yet - 2000 girls! SO FUN! All possible bcoz of
@illumina
's incredible support towards building the next generation of scientists! Thanks
@fdesouza
@Envirosharon
for believing in us 🙏🏾
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As I go from school to school in villages of Bangladesh with my colleagues and talk about science & our work, young girls & boys see that scientists look just like them. They see new possibilities.
@chrfbd
's "Building Scientists for Bangladesh" is growing everyday!
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We are frequently contacted by HIC researchers to share data we generated from our studies for their meta-analysis. We spend days compiling, entering data for multi-million$ studies. No funds, benefits, usu no authorship, but many emails, high demands. Normal in
#globalhealth
?
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আমার বাবা গবেষণা ক্ষেত্রে একুশে পদক পাচ্ছেন (2020)।
মা-বাবার জন্য অনেক অনেক ভালোবাসা।
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Find me another
#Scientist
who has loaded a next-generation sequencer wearing a saree. I love every bit of the work I do in
#Bangladesh
and sarees. & no, u dont need a lab coat for this🤗
#ngs
#metagenomics
#bangladeshi
#scientist
#stem
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#iseq
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With my decision of contuing to live in Bangladesh, I've been trying to learn about my roots & family.
A few weeks ago, I visited mom's 1st school in Satkhira, where my grandfather was posted as Officer in Charge of the local prison. I met teachers, students. Such crazy feelings!
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What a fantastic panel!!
@BillGates
@alexanderdecroo
@starkwatzinger
all in one panel. And moderated by one of my favourite scientists in this world, a force of nature
@iruka_okeke
!
Excited to be spending the next 3 days at the
#grandchallenges
@gatesfoundation
in Brussels!
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1/2 of my family lives in Bangladesh, 1/2 in India. My phone's constantly buzzing with requests for tests, results, hospital/icu beds, fear, anger, cries.. I'll never be able to forget these days. I must ensure that my future roles in "global" health are driven by these moments.
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With rising cases in South Asia, I am just waiting to see rising publications in elite journals about this rise by high income country peers without South Asian authors.
#colonialglobalhealth
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বাংলাদেশের প্রতিটি ডিস্ট্রিক্ট আলাদা, প্রতিটি গ্রাম আলাদা, প্রতিটি স্কুল আলাদা, কিন্তু প্রত্যেকটি জায়গায় আছে সীমাহীন ভালোবাসা, আন্তরিকতা এবং আকাশ ছোঁয়া স্বপ্ন।
সোনার বাংলার সোনার মানুষ।
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