Bangladeshi-American Dr Abid get nomination for Nobel Peace Prize

Dr Ruhul Abid_ a Bangladeshi-American professor at Brown University Alpert Medical School in USA_ and his nonprofit organisation Health and Education for All (HAEFA) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize_ by University of Massachusetts Boston. Prof Jean-Philippe Belleau from the department of anthropology at UMASS Boston confirmed the news. Abid is one of 211 individuals nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr Abid graduated from Dhaka Medical College_ and received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University in Japan. He later did a fellowship from Harvard Medical School in 2001. He is also an executive faculty member of Brown Global Health Initiative. HAEFA has been engaged in providing free healthcare to the underprivileged in Bangladesh. In the last three years_ the nonprofit has provided free on-site treatment to more than 30_000 readymade garment workers_ supported cervical cancer screening and treatment for more than 9_000 RMG workers and underprivileged women in Bangladesh_ and given free healthcare to more than 150_000 Rohingya refugees and host community members in Cox's Bazar. Now_ they are providing competency training for Covid-19 management_ to combat the spread of the virus in two Rohingya refugee camps. Following the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013_ Dr Abid founded HAEFA to provide healthcare for RMG factory workers throughout Bangladesh. From April to August_ Abid and HAEFA helped train more than 1_200 Bangladeshi healthcare workers from nearly 35 different organisations. Following the culmination of the program_ the participants are expected to train nearly 3_600 more healthcare workers by October 2020. Dr Abid and his organisation were awarded 'Stars in Global Health' by the Grand Challenges Canada in 2018 for their pioneering work_ introduction of the digital 'see-and-treat' method for on-site cervical cancer screening and treatment program for the female RMG workers in Bangladesh. Dr Abid receives no salary nor any compensation for his work with HAEFA_ and has been providing all these humanitarian services to the underserved and displaced entirely out of his humanist belie According to the Nobel Prize website_ nominations for the 2020 Prize were due in January 2020_ and the Nobel Laureates will be announced in October 2020.