Anthrolens is the independent consulting practice of Sohrab Hussain, a public health specialist with 18+ years of experience designing and managing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs across Bangladesh and multi-country settings.
Based in Dhaka. Available for work across Bangladesh and globally.
Sohrab has contributed to three major health systems strengthening projects in Bangladesh. He led learning documentation for the USAID-funded MaMoni Health Systems Strengthening project and documented the first community-based pilot of 7.1% Chlorhexidine through the public health system. On the Gates Foundation-funded Saving Newborn Lives project at Save the Children, he supported nationwide scale-up of the Comprehensive Newborn Care Package and documented the first Kangaroo Mother Care units in Bangladesh's public health system.
At Pathfinder International, he served as country lead in Bangladesh for the Gates-funded (re)solve project, a multi-country initiative across Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia that applied human-centered design to family planning uptake. He later managed sub-grant operations for the USAID-funded Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning (AUAFP) project across 15 districts and 6 partner NGOs, with a focus on adolescent SRHR and marginalized populations including transgender communities, ethnic minorities, tea garden workers, and climate-vulnerable populations.
His work combines health systems strengthening, applied research with IRB oversight, behavior change communication, and human-centered design. He has co-authored peer-reviewed articles on maternal and child nutrition and contributed to national training manuals and toolkits adopted by Bangladesh's Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
He holds a Professional Certificate in Climate Change and Health from the University of Dhaka and Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University. He serves as an External Reviewer for the IRB at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health.
We start with what the data and field tell us, not with what is convenient for the donor or the team. When findings are inconvenient, we still report them.
Not every problem needs ethnography or an RCT. We pick the cheapest, fastest method that will answer the actual question well.
Research participants are partners, not data points. We explain what we are doing, why, and what they get from it. This is non-negotiable.
A report that sits unread on a shared drive is a failure of our work, not yours. We deliver findings in formats teams actually use.
We re-state the brief. Most projects shift once we look closely at what is actually being asked.
Interviews, observation, document review. We go where the data lives, with consent and care.
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