Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows

This book provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts of the slums of Dhaka city and will appeal to the fields of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, urban health and poverty-related work.

Sabina Faiz Rashid is Professor and Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty of BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh, The position was endowed by the founder of BRAC, the Late Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. She was former Dean of BRAC School (2013-2023). Her research and teaching focuses on urban informal settlement communities, adolescents, and marginalised groups, including refugee populations and sexual minorities in Bangladesh.