Dr. Sajia Haque is the National Health Coordinator at Health and Education for All (HAEFA), where she spearheads national-level public health interventions across the organization’s operational sites in Bangladesh. Her portfolio spans a broad range of programs, encompassing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Cardiovascular and Cardio-metabolic Diseases, pediatric health, nutrition, adolescent mental health, sexual and reproductive health, alongside humanitarian health initiatives. Through her strategic leadership, she has been instrumental in strengthening health service delivery and program management, including efforts to reach underserved and displaced populations in Cox’s Bazar.

Dr. Sajia obtained her MBBS from Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health (MPH) at North South University. She has further strengthened her clinical and public health expertise through targeted professional development. She completed advanced online certification training in Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings, offered by the University of Copenhagen. She also completed a certification course on the “Management of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Chronic Respiratory Diseases for Primary Health Care Physicians,” organised by the Centre of Excellence for Non-Communicable Diseases and Nutrition and the Centre for Professional Skills Development in Public Health at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, and supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the Global Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in South Asians.

Beyond her program leadership responsibilities, Dr. Sajia is actively engaged in public health research and international collaboration. She has worked closely with researchers and students from Brown University, USA, contributing to pediatric health, NCD, Cardiovascular and Cardio-metabolic Diseases related research, program evaluation, and evidence generation. She is a co-author of a manuscript currently under review at BMJ Global Health on malnutrition trends among displaced Rohingya children, reflecting her growing research expertise in pediatric and humanitarian public health.

Dr. Sajia brings extensive experience in coordinating multidisciplinary health initiatives, health data management, and disease surveillance, and in leveraging HAEFA’s NIROG Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system to generate evidence for programmatic decision-making and clinical research, contributing to the systematic documentation and longitudinal tracking of cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, and NCD outcomes across diverse and underserved populations in Bangladesh. She has actively contributed to the design and implementation of research-informed health programs across child health, nutrition, mental health, NCD, cardiovascular, and cardiometabolic disease prevention and management, including participation in data collection, screening protocol implementation, and analysis of population-level health trends across HAEFA’s operational sites. Her involvement in collaborative research with investigators has further strengthened her capacity in study coordination, biostatistical analysis, epidemiological data interpretation, and manuscript development. Her combined expertise in research implementation, evidence generation, and health systems strengthening positions her as an emerging physician-scientist and a valued contributor to HAEFA’s broader public health research agenda, particularly in advancing cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease prevention, risk assessment, and management, as well as pediatric and humanitarian health research in low- and middle-income country settings.