Nusrat Shabnam Nessa is a Research Assistant at HSPRN, assisting on various projects undertaken at the network. She has received her MPH from Queen’s University in Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Economics, and an HBSc in Global Health, Chemistry, and French from the University of Toronto. She is dedicated to the amelioration of health care in Canada and across the globe, having previously worked with vulnerable populations in slums in Bangladesh, through evidence-based, pragmatic solutions and policies.