Nasima SELIM

Tel: +88 (02) 8825131,8825141,8825143 ext: 6004
E-mail: nselim@bracu.ac.bd ; nasimaselim@yahoo.com 

Dr. Selim completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka University in 2000. She worked as Assistant Registrar in Pabna Mental Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health Project. She was the Senior Medical Officer at Monon Psychiatric Hospital before she enrolled in the MPH program of BRAC School of Public Health (BSPH). In 2007 Nasima completed her MPH securing the highest GPA and joined JPGSPH as Research Associate. In August, 2007, she received a one year grant from the South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS), Netherlands, to participate in the International Research training in Social Sciences at CSSSC (Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta) in India. In 2010, she received NUFFIC scholarship to pursue the Amsterdam Masters in Medical Anthropology (AMMA) in the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She completed her masters with cum laude (honors) and re-joined BRAC University in September, 2011. Her AMMA thesis was titled: 'Doing body, doing mind, doing self: Vipassana meditation in everyday life'. She received the DAAD scholarship and is currently on leave to pursue her doctoral studies in medical anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie University, Berlin (Germany). 

Dr. Selim works at JPGSPH as Senior Lecturer. She teaches anthropological approaches to public health, qualitative research methods, methodology workshop and scientific writing for MPH students as well as short course participants. She also gives public health seminars to BRAC University undergraduate students at the residential campus in Savar. She was co-investigator in two recently completed multi-country research projects, "Globalization as a social determinant of health: Influences on patterns of food consumption among young people in Asian Universities" (2009); and, 'Violence against marginalized women in Bangladesh' (2010). Most recently she was involved in a mixed-method health systems research project titled "Health Professional Education Situation Analysis". 

Her publications include an edited special issue of BRAC University journal and a co-edited book with Sjaak Van der Geest and Shahaduz Zaman. She has also published in the international peer-reviewed journal of Mental Health, Religion and Culture; Maternal Child and Nutrition; Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition (ICDDR,B); as well as the BRAC University Journal, Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry, Sir Salimullah Medical College Journal; and Mental Health and Development e-journal. She is a reviewer of the international peer-reviewed Community Mental Health Journal published by Springer, Netherlands and Journal of Mental Health, Religion & Culture published by Routledge, UK. 

Her research interests include health promotion, self-care and meditation practices, social determinants of health, positive mental health, health professional education, public health epistemologies, qualitative research methods, mixed methods as well as the interface of public health with social sciences specially the field of medical anthropology. 


Publications

Original Article

• Selim, N. (2011). Friendship (and healing) in the 'intersubjectivity of silence': A case illustration.In M. Tankink and M. Vysma, Roads and Boundaries: Travels in search of (re-connection. Published in the Netherlands. IN PRESS. 

• Goudet, S.M., Griffiths, P.L., Bogin, B.A., & Selim, N. (2011). Impact of flooding on Feeding Practices of Infants and Young Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: What are the coping strategies? Maternal & Child Nutrition, 7 (2):198-214.

• Selim, N. (2010). Cultural dimensions of depressive episode: A qualitative study in two villages of Matlab. Journal of Population, Health & Nutrition, 28 (1), 95-106. [Published by ICDDR,B]

• Selim, N. (2010). An extraordinary truth? The Adam suicide notes from Bangladesh. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 13 (3), 223-244.

• Selim, N., & Satalkar, P. (2008). Perceptions of mental illness in a Bangladeshi village. BRAC University Journal, 5 (1), 45-55. Available at: http://www.bracuniversity.ac.bd/journal/contents/512008/Nasima.Selim.pdf

• Choudhury, S.R., Mullick, M.S.I., Rahman, S., Selim, N., Huq, N. (2006).Psychiatric morbidity in the cardiac emergency set-up. Sir Salimullah Medical College Journal, 14(2), 86-91.

Original Essay

• Selim, N. (2011). Negotiation of Cultures in Public Health: Critical Reflections on an Applied Discipline. Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements, the 2nd Inter Asian Cultural Studies Conference at BRAC University. December 18, 2011.

• Selim, N. (2009). Ekattorer Debdas (Debdas of 1971): The 'unusual' protest and plight of a 'living martyr' of the Liberation War. Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth & Justice, July 30-31, 2009. Dhaka: Liberation War Museum. Available at: http://www.liberationwarmuseum.org/genocide/papers/lwm_icgtj_2009_selim.pdf

Edited Book

• Van der Geest, S., Selim, N., & Zaman, S. (2010). Daily health concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village. Dhaka: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. Available at: http://sph.bracu.ac.bd/publications/reports/monograph/MONOGRAPH%209-%20Kakabo.pdf

Edited Journal (Special Issue)

• Selim, Nasima and Rashid, Sabina F. (2012). Editorial. Community health concerns: Qualitative research in rural Bangladesh. BRAC University Journal Special Issue (in press).

Case Report

• Selim, N. (June 2002). The man who would marry God: A case of schizophrenia with bizarre delusion. Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry, 16(1), 48-54.

Essay in e-journal

• Selim, N. (July 2005). Man without a mask. Mental health and development e-journal, 4. Available at: http://www.mentalhealthanddevelopment.org/ww1.pdf