Malabika Sarker
{{Short description|Bangladeshi physician and public health scientist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Malabika Sarker
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1964|07|14}}
| birth_place = Bangladesh
| workplaces = BRAC University; Brown University; Heidelberg University
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| fields = Implementation science
Mixed method
| alma_mater = Chittagong Medical College
Heidelberg University
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Karolinska Institute
| thesis_title = HIV related knowledge, Risk perception and Demand forecasting for VCT/PMTCT in women living in Rural Burkina Faso
| thesis_url = https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/5539/
| thesis_year = 2005
| awards = Heroine of Health Global (2018); Women in Science in Bangladesh (2023)
| website = {{Official URL}}
| children = 1 (Showvanik Das Gupta)
}}
Malabika Sarker (born 14 July 1964) is a Bangladeshi physician and public health scientist. She is a Professor of Practice of Behavioral and Social Science at Brown School of Public Health,{{Cite web |title= Sarker, Malabika|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/msarker1}} Brown University, USA. She is the former Associate Dean and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Science of Implementation and Scale-Up at the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health{{Cite web |title=BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health |url=https://bracjpgsph.org/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=bracjpgsph.org |language=en}} of BRAC University in Bangladesh.{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}}
Early life and education
Malabika Sarker graduated from Chittagong Medical College. After completing her medical training, she joined the Marie Stopes Clinical Society.{{Cite web |title=Malabika Sarker |url=https://www.theigc.org/person/malabika-sarker/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=theigc.org |language=en-GB}} She moved to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, where she completed a certificate in Gender and International Health. Sarker worked toward a master of public health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After securing her master's degree, Sarker returned to Europe, where she completed her doctoral research at Heidelberg University. Her doctorate research explored women in Burkina Faso's awareness of HIV.{{Cite web |last=Sarker |first=Malabika |date=2005 |title=HIV related knowledge, Risk perception and Demand forecasting for VCT/PMTCT in women living in Rural Burkina Faso |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/5539/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de}}
Research and career
Before joining Brown School of Public Health, Prof. Sarker was the Associate Dean & Professor of BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH), BRAC University. She founded the Institute review board (IRB) and the Center of Excellence of Science of Implementation & Scale-Up (SISU) at BRAC JPGSPH, Bangladesh. She also served as the Acting Dean in 2015 and as Research Advisor for BRAC University from 2019-2021. She is currently adjunct faculty at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health. She teaches Quantitative Research Methods, Implementation Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at BRAC JPGSPH. She is also the coordinator and lecturer of the course on Mixed Methods in International Health Research at Heidelberg Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Germany.{{fact|date=April 2023}}
Malabika started her career as a community-based reproductive health programmer at the Marie Stopes Clinic Society, an international organization in Bangladesh. Later she joined BRAC, Bangladesh, the largest Non-Government Organization in the world, and worked as a community-based physician in Dinajpur, a rural northern district in Bangladesh.{{fact|date=April 2023}}
Her research considers implementation research{{Cite journal |last1=Shahabuddin |first1=A. S. M. |last2=Sharkey |first2=Alyssa B. |last3=Jackson |first3=Debra |last4=Rutter |first4=Paul |last5=Hasman |first5=Andreas |last6=Sarker |first6=Malabika |date=2020-07-16 |title=Carrying out embedded implementation research in humanitarian settings: A qualitative study in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh |journal=PLOS Medicine |language=en |volume=17 |issue=7 |pages=e1003148 |doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003148 |issn=1549-1676 |pmc=7365392 |pmid=32673316 |doi-access=free }} and systematic strategies to reform public health programs.{{Cite web |title=Malabika Sarker {{!}} Implementation Research {{!}} The Institute for South Asia Studies |url=https://southasia.berkeley.edu/malabika-sarker-implementation-research |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=southasia.berkeley.edu}} She pioneered novel community-based approaches to health care, including developing educational campaigns that seek to change understanding about child marriage.{{Cite web |last=Anon |title=Launch |url=https://www.keele.ac.uk/globalhealth/launch/ |year=2021|access-date=2022-11-26 |website=keele.ac.uk |language=en}} She launched campaigns to improve women's health, including a maternity waiting area for at-risk pregnant women from rural villages, and advocating for women public health scientists.{{Cite web |title=No research about us without us: why research capacity strengthening is essential to health for all |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/16-11-2021-no-research-about-us-without-us-why-research-capacity-strengthening-is-essential-to-health-for-all |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=who.int |language=en}} She was made Principal Investigator for Bangladesh in the Johns Hopkins University STRIPE program (Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovation from Polio Eradication), a global health initiative that seeks to eradicate polio.{{Cite web |title=Consortium Partners |url=https://stripe.jhu.edu/about-us/consortium-partners/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=stripe.jhu.edu |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite Q|Q30241791}}
- {{Cite Q|Q43930612}}
- {{Cite Q|Q41466795|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LAoyKqYAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
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Category:Academic staff of BRAC University
Category:Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni