As a public health and nutrition professional, Dina has over 12 years experiences of work in development and humanitarian context in Bangladesh. Her development experiences focus on research, policy level advocacy and project management and implementation. She has expertise on implementation research, program evaluation, monitoring & learning, with particular interest on maternal, child health and nutrition, WASH, food security and sustainable food system. Her advocacy activities bring her to work and engage with diverse stakeholders from Government’s high officials, donors, partners, and CSOs. She also leds and get involved with different movements and networks especially the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in Bangladesh, Civil Society Network for Nutrition. Her humanitarian work mostly focused on improving the quality services of IYCF and CMAMI component in the emergency nutrition context at refugee camp, Cox’Bazar. She worked for business development and executive management position for more than five years. Dina holds a Master’s degree on Nutrition and Food Science from Institute of Nutrition and Food Science (INFS) under University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Projects
Technical assistance on the impact of the crisis on diets in Asia and the Pacific for WFP
Assistance to UNICEF for the development of Maternal Nutrition costed technical operational guidelines and standard operating procedures in Bangladesh
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a research on the food environment factors affecting young children, adolescents, and mothers’ diets in Fiji
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a review of policies and programmes in prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition across all life stages in 14 Pacific Island Countries
Urban food security and nutrition research in Asia and the Pacific for FAO
Technical assistance for urban food system analysis in Asia for WFP
Researchers
Amal A. Abed
Nutrition, WASH, health education, and MEAL program and research expert
