Kazi Homaira Nirjhar is Co-founder and Managing Director of Onupran, an Early Childhood Development Centre. Before founding Ounpran, she worked in BRAC and BRAC International for seven years. While working in BRAC International, she provided public health related technical support to the program areas of 10 countries of Asia and Africa to achieve operational as well as fundraising goal.

Prior joining to BRAC International, she was working in grant monitoring team in BRAC Health Program in which she was a Senior Sector Specialist in programmatic Management Information System (MIS). Her responsibility was to monitor Global Fund funded Tuberculosis grant activities of 45 NGOs including BRAC working areas. She did her BBA and MBA from Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Jahangirnagar University and MPH from James P Grant School of Public Health. She is one of the BRAC staff fellowship awardees.

She was also awarded with the scholarship under USAID’s Next Generation of Public Health Experts Project (NGPHEP). She has got several trainings related to child health and psychology from different institutions. She also participated in many research works related to asset liability management, public health, food safety etc.