Dr. Julia Ahmed is an Independent Consultant with a focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Gender Mainstreaming, and Health System Strengthening. She has over 30 years experience of working with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender Consulting, and has led multiple teams focusing on gender and healthcare interventions. She has recently joined LightCastle Partners as a GESI expert.
In LightCastle Partnersโ ongoing โBunon 2030โ initiative, Dr. Ahmed will lend her expertise in guiding and contributing to a unified action plan in interventions and knowledge content particularly in the upcoming multi-stakeholder engagements. She will also contribute significantly to LightCasleโs upcoming dialogue on worker well-being in the apparel industry, with a particular focus on gender and inclusion.
Dr. Ahmed has a diverse educational history spanning a Bachelor of Medicine in Bulgaria, an MBBS in Bangladesh, and an MS in Health Evaluation Sciences in the USA. In her eventful career, she started as a medical officer and then moved on to broader responsibilities in the HIV/AIDS program for BWHC. There she was involved in the formulation of the National AIDS Policy and 1st and 2nd National AIDS Strategic Plan (1998-2010). She has worked in different roles with UNAIDS, Campe, CARE, Oxfam, IRC, and World Vision, among others as a consultant, and SRHR expert, contributing to research and program development.
โBunon 2030โ is a LightCastle Partners initiative that aims to strengthen the apparel industry for the next decadeโ adapting to the emergence of the 4th Industrial Revolution, changing Geopolitics, Circularity, and Worker Wellbeing. This initiative is part of โOporajita: Collective Impact on Future of Workโ and is working towards future-proofing women workers in the apparel sector and ensuring worker wellbeing.
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