SHARMIN ZAHAN

Head of Ecosystem and Business Development, Digital Healthcare Solutions

Dr Sharmin Akhter Zahan, a Global Health Professional, working as a Head of Ecosystem and Business Development of Digital Healthcare Solutions of Grameen Telecom Trust, Bangladesh. She provides strategic leadership for ecosystem activities to achieve partnership development with special focus to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Bangladesh, development partners, NGOs and relevant Private Sector Institutions that are critical for the business.

She has obtained MBBS, MSc Global Health, Law and Governance and a Master’s in Public Health. Previously she managed BRAC’s International Health Programmes in Asia and Africa, and even prior to that she was active at BRAC’s Bangladesh health Program. While at BRAC, she also served as Gavi (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations), Civil Society Organisation Steering Committee (CSOSC) Member and represented Bangladesh in that role (2013-2015). Prior to that she was a Special Advisor to the Gavi CSO Board Member from 2009 until 2011. At the beginning of her career, she had worked as a medical doctor in England in Obstetrics and Gynaecology discipline, under different NHS hospitals.