Hasin Azhari Anupama

Vision statement

Girls need to be educated in STEM education, girls need to be ensured of higher education, they need to be informed about women's rights. Many girls around us are still ignorant about their rights. They still take the husband's permission to step out of the house. Although there is a lot of talent in them, it is dormant without any place to express it. We need to find those talented women and create opportunities to explore their talents. To utilize their talent in our country and the nation and even the whole world, we would be even more ahead.

I have been associated with OWSD since 2005 and have been working with girls ever since. I have been educating the girls hand-in-hand through various means, from counseling to encouraging the girls on how to move forward. Every step I took to move the girls forward was a beautiful experience for me. I mingled with them, talked, I not only taught them but I also learned a lot from them. I have seen how a girl survives her dream through a thousand adversities and it always inspires me.

Candidate’s bio

Professor Dr. Hasin Anupama Azhari is former Chairman of the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Gono Bishwabidyalay (GB, University) and former Dean, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, GB. She has academic experience of more than 15 years of the academic field and got many clinical training in radiation oncology and diagnostic radiology from India, Germany, Italy. Currently she is the CEO, South Asia centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research (SCMPCR), Secretary- General Asia–Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics, (AFOMP); and Founder President, Bangladesh Medical Physics Society (BMPS).

She has been awarded as PhD fellow, OWSD, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, China was the host institute. About more than 60 research works were published in different national and international Journals and books. She has organized many national and international conferences and workshops. She acts as a reviewer for different national and international Journals and supervised many BSc projects, MSc thesis and PhD thesis.

During Covid-19 Pandemic Dr. Anupama has been keeping up her work with the Health Ministry, Bangladesh Government to create and spread awareness following the directives from WHO. Recently a chapter Medical Physics during the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Perspectives— Asia-Pacific. In the book: Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Perspectives in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Taylor and Francis 2021.

Dr. Azhari received the “International Day of Medical Physics award 2018” from IOMP and AFOMP Outstanding Medical Physicist Award 2020. She has collaborated different countries for development of Medical Physics education in international standard. She was a project coordinator for Bengal translation at EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics and Multilingual Dictionary and terms, a project of IOMP from 2000-2015.

She is the first women MP in Bangladesh having MSc in MP, become Chairman in one and only Medical Physics course in Bangladesh in Gono University. She has communicated with the health ministry and other government. nongovernment organization to publicize of the subject. She has able to create position and recruitment rules working with Directorate of Health Services and Ministry of Health.