Shahana Siddiqui

Shahana Siddiqui, PhD., is a medical anthropologist by training, specializing in sexual reproductive health rights, gender-based violence, and colonial medicine. She received her doctorate degree from Universiteit van Amsterdam where she is currently a lecturer.  Her doctoral research focused on public health responsiveness to sexual violence in Bangladesh, having conducted a hospital ethnography at the largest public hospital in the country. Before shifting to academia, Siddiqui worked extensively in the development sector, mainly on child rights, urban poverty, digital healthcare provision, and overall sexual reproductive health and rights programming and advocacy. She is currently a steering committee member for Share-Net Netherlands, the largest network on SRHR and adjunct faculty at James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. Her greatest passion is teaching, believing in the power of the classroom as the site for feminist decolonial transformation.