Rubeena Slamat
Status: Phd researcher
Rubeena Slamat has been a member of HeDeRa since 2018. She completed her PhD in March 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Piet Bracke and Dr. Melissa Ceuterick. Her dissertation, titled "Maternal and Reproductive Health Stigma of Women in a Rural Punjabi Pakistani Community," examines the creation of stigma around women who have experienced multiple miscarriages, induced abortion, and childlessness in Pakistan’s patriarchal and pronatalist society.
In 2011, Rubeena earned her MPhil in Cultural Anthropology from Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan), where her thesis focused on socio-cultural perceptions of healthcare facilities for pregnant women in rural Pakistan.
Following her MPhil, she worked for over three years as a Programme Officer at the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Pakistan. In this role, she managed school administration, staff and community training, flood area inspections, and the WASH project. She also collaborated on a health insurance research project led by the University of Mannheim in partnership with NRSP.
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