Zubeeda Quraishy Born in Madras,India now known as
Chennai in a conventional Muslim family with a broader outlook towads liffe had
my education in Madras from schooling till doctorate.Received my doctorate in
Anthropology from Univerrsity of Madras,After my completion of Ph.D Post
doctoral fellowship was awarded from University Grants Commission , New Delhi
to work on Population, Education and Development and it is during those years
an interest was developed in doiing research on environment and health related
aspects and presentations were made at Stockholm Water Symposium,Sweden and in
International Geographical Congress held at Hague,The Netherlands.The research
in health led me to work using anthropological methodologies.on
transdisciplianry topics relating Gender and health, Gender and aagriculture
and impact of structural reforms on gender,health and agriculture. The reults
of empiirical research carried out in various settings were presented in
national and international fora. Selected to work as a "Fellow" in Resource
Centre for Gender and Development in M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation,
Chennai,, an internationally reputed research instiute for agriculture and
later in an EU funded project on Health Sector Reforms in India. Scholarship
was awarded to attend a three month intensive course on Information organised
by IFU at Hamburg University,Germany and on completion of the course had the
distinction of being employed by Univ of Oslo,Norway to work as part time
faculty in dept of informatics, and ful time Project Coordinator, on Health
Information Sytems Programme implemented in India.since 2001 |