Attaining a post graduate degree in Psychology from department of Psychology, University of Dhaka Naznine Anwar worked for five and a half years in the field of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. She started her career as a HIV Counselor and in a spa
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Attaining a post graduate degree in Psychology from department of Psychology, University of Dhaka Naznine Anwar worked for five and a half years in the field of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. She started her career as a HIV Counselor and in a span of couple of years worked as a Counseling Supervisor in USAID Funded HIV Positive Care and Support Health Program and spearheading urban HIV/AIDS Prevention Program for vulnerable populations. She also worked as a Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Center and Counseling Coordinator at CARE-Bangladesh. As a Research Officer under the Public Health Science Division of ICDDRB, she worked for developing the research protocol for STI partner notification study. Prior to attending the Master of Public Health program at James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in Bangladesh she was working as a Technical Officer (VCT) for Family Health International and responsible for planning, coordinating, facilitating, supervising, managing, monitoring and evaluating the VCT program among the vulnerable population through the nation wide local development organizations.
Currently she is doing her PhD research in Neuroscience which exploring linkages between brain mechanisms and the cognitive and motor signatures in neuro-degenerative disease at the School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She will use state-of-the-art motor, cognitive and brain imaging technologies which can help for understanding of behavioural consequences of disease, enable novel strategies for management of symptoms, and provide new insights on functional operations of the human brain.
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