Health Sciences

I am medical doctor by profession. After graduation, I worked in different national and international organisations mainly in reproductive and sexual health field in Bangladesh in a capacity of project management before I move to Australia.

I came to Melbourne in 2007 and worked as Project Manager in Partnerships in Safer Sex and Testing, a project of Family Planning Victoria, funded by DHS’ BBV/STI unit for one year.  During this work, I had the opportunity to interact with few interesting and cool young people in rural Victoria. They were smart but at the same time, I found them ignorant in terms of practicing safer sex and managing their sexual health. Therefore, I decided to further research to increase my understanding about the dynamics of young people’s behaviour, their relationships with sexual health and their access status to health services.

Working for poor, socially disadvantaged community and inquest for why inequity exists in health system

A qualitative research study on access to screening and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections and associated risk behaviours of young men, aged 16 – 25 years in rural and regional Victoria.

The study will aim to -

• To identify the range of reproductive and sexual health (SRH) facilities available in rural and regional Victoria
• To find out the obstacles which prevent the young males in getting SRH services facilities
• To ascertain the proportion of those young males have access to the Sexually Transmissible Infection (STIs) screening and treatment services
• To measure knowledge and sources of information of  STIs

Conducted a thesis on “Accessibility Status of Slum Male Adolescents to Reproductive Health Services in Dhaka City,” 2004 as a partial fulfilments of my Master of Public Health from National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dhaka University, Bangladesh

Email: bbanik@students.latrobe.edu.au

Tel: (03) 9285 5397